Thread by @scottsantens

Pelosi could pass a $50 trillion bill through the House. That doesn't mean it would ever become law, and I'd argue it's meant to not become law. If her intention was to start high and meet in the middle, she's now won. If HEROES was never meant to be law, no deals can be allowed.

https://twitter.com/esaagar/status/1316135967019982848

Mitch is playing the same game, except he is going low, with the intention of only wanting to create the impression that he wants to pass something, when what he really wants is voters to blame Democrats for not passing something.

Both sides are playing a giant game of chicken.

Who can win the battle of making the other side look like they are the ones responsible for the increasing misery of voters? With only three weeks left, whoever gives in by accepting a deal, will be taking off the table the misery of voters, which is seen as a high value card.

They should be fighting over who can help us the most, but we created a negative partisan system where we don't vote for who we want, and instead vote against who we don't want.

So, here we are, where it's all about feeding fear and anger as a way of making the other side lose.

It should not be politically advantageous to pass bills that aren't meant to become law, or to refuse to compromise regardless of time's passage. It should not be okay to just say you are representing your constituents, when they are standing in food bank lines month after month.

All that really matters is wellbeing. Just as we are the economy, we are also the government. The measuring stick of success is how we are doing, and we are not doing okay. Everything is failing us because it's just not built with our wellbeing as the goal.

We have to fix that.