By the way, everything I said about Senator Warren in that thread could be applied to Bernie, to AOC, to Bush, to any leftist member of Congress you want. Any shmuck can identify problems and state their plan. These people have the agency to #DoSomething, and they don’t.
These are members of the United States Congress, not some neckbeard in a South Philly coffee shop ranting about politics. They have the ability to put their causes on the floor of Congress for action. Instead they blame Democrats who do stuff for not going far enough.
I’m just going to be impolite about this, it is very frustrating to watch these edgelords of my generation and younger lionize these people who do nothing on their jobs, but yet they call Kamala Harris a cop. Us youngish folks don’t get politics at all.
“JoE bIDeN WoN’t FOrGivE My lOANs.” Meanwhile he’s forgiven billions in debt using the powers he has. But he sucks. AOC is awesome though, and hasn’t passed a single bill in three years. Can’t she at least name a Post Office or something?
Look, I get it, you want free shit and David Sirota told you that Bernie will get it for you. That’s cool. Tell the Squad to get it for you. They are in Congress. They have the same powers as Rep. Underwood or Senator Brown.
“Progressive Champion” Markey can push for GND. Bernie can push for M4A. AOC doing much on abolishing ICE yet? Why aren’t any of these folks delivering you what you voted for? Are you threatening to withhold your votes from them yet? If not, why are you hating on Pelosi?
Stop acting like Joe Biden owes you things he didn’t really promise you and can’t deliver alone, just because you did your civic duty and showed up to vote that monster out of office. Or at least be consistent with your own folks about delivering the goods.
So yeah, we done being nice. I was mostly quiet about this crowd in 2021. I don’t care in 2022, bring it.
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I’m sorry, Elizabeth Warren bothers me. Her entire political career is completely impossible white paper plans on issues and then blaming the people who actually produce and pass plans for not doing enough.
She has basically spent a decade plus saying Dodd-Frank was insufficient market regulation, and President Obama/Senator Dodd/Congressman Frank should have gone further. Then she cites the CFPB as part of her amazing record, which Dodd-Frank created.
Mind you, she’s been a Senator since 2013, or nine years now. She could write a new bill anytime, or even just amend Dodd-Frank to address some of the real issues with it. But she hasn’t. And won’t. My guess is that she thinks it’s too hard, but I really don’t know why.
I was 18 on 9/11, 22 at the height of the Iraq War, 25 for the 2008 Great Recession, and 33 when Trump took office. I’m very tough on my generation and younger people for the rise of far lefty politics, and deservedly so, but we have lived our entire adult lives in crisis.
For all of that crisis though, it’s important to note that we have largely survived. American society has not melted down all the way down to “Hunger Games” levels. There have been failings- Katrina comes to mind- but we have generally avoided complete and total disaster.
For the most part, this is why I have been a Democrat. It is certainly not my identity, or a devotion to the ideology. The reason I haven’t followed the “white male migration” to the GOP is that I’ve watched Democrats try and mostly succeed at solving these problems.