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He passed way way more than the IRA
Yes, I mentioned the anti-trans bill. Oh, yeah. There was also republican border policy. And of course the aid to a genocidal apartheid regime.
Again. This is just bitter copium. He past some of the biggest legislation since FDR. Of course it would be pointless having that discussion with you as you clearly are already bad faith about this topic with your selective memory.
You don't like how politics works. I get it. None of us do. But this incessant hostility to the Dems is not going to move the needle unless we move beyond FPTP. Figure it out.
BBB came closest. It was killed in the senate as intended. The Inflation Reduction Act was the biggest legislation that Biden passed. It was so watered down and pro-corporate that Manchin cosponsored.
He's not in office anymore. He's not running anymore. You don't have to carry water for him anymore. You don't have to lie on his behalf anymore.
Ha.
Democrats will never move beyond FPTP. "Just switch to RCV!" is a fucking pipe dream. Using it as a prerequisite for criticism of the party just means that you don't want any criticism of the party ever.
There was more than BBB. I don't need to carry water for him but I do prefer to have a conversation grounded in reality that isn't emotive and charged every time either. It's impossible to discuss anything because every approach is devoid of nuance, details, or the boring entrapings of how policy actually gets done. It's a lot more fun to screech about genocide Joe in'it?
There wasn't even BBB. It was killed by Democrats without even coming to the floor for a vote. Do tell, how did Old Man Biden out-progressive LBJ?
So stop.
If you prefer a conversation grounded in reality, don't say that Biden passed massive legislation that he didn't pass. If you prefer conversation grounded in reality, don't pretend that FPTP is going to come out of a party that considered the filibuster more important than democracy itself.
Hey man, keep screeching about how emotionally buthurt you are and keep calling people liars. In the meantime, the rest of us are going to roll up our sleeves and get to work building. The boomer dems aren't going to be around forever and we gotta move forward. This whole brooding in bitterness and defeatism is bullcrap.
I've seen what you build. There's a reason you have to oversell it as being second only to the New Deal.
And just to be clear. I hate the Dems. Probably more than you do. I hate Biden with a passion. I hate Kamala - or Hillary 2.0- next too. So much I unregistered from the Hem party.
It's just we gotta work within the system somehow or we just check out. I don't know. Im praying for all the boomer politicians to check out. I've lost most hope anyway.
Just to be clear, I think you're lying.
Working within the system doesn't require you to keep campaigning for a man who will never run for office again.