I'm starting to think "affordability" is just weasely shit for little administrative fixes.

I want to start hearing about massive trust busting and I want to hear talk about the income crisis and dismantling all the tools and methods that employers bring to bear to drive wages down.

In other words, I want to hear some language that is undeniably leftist about changing the structure of the economy, not bland phrases for tinkering around the edges.

Exactly, but noticed how to two guys who want to lead the party only want to focus on affordability. With Trumps veto power it up hill battle. They definitely should still fight it. But if we don't address the accountability part that they do have the power to address. Then we have no rule of law and Trump and co, and those in the shadows will see that they can do whatever the hell they want without consequences.

On the Accountability thing, I think there is a subtle thing to understand here. While Republicans had the majority during the last half of the Bide administration, dingbats like Jim Jordan were using the power of Congressional committees to investigate things that the Administratio did that they didn't like. There was no real legal basis for the investigations, other than some officials did things that hurt Conservative's fragile egos.

Those investigations has two goals: one was to demoralize Federal officials, but the other was to be able to turn around later and accuse the other side of wielding Government as a weapon when they are in power, because they understand it can motivate their side to vote.

We al need to understand that this is the real reason why some Democrats seem tepid on this accountability thing, it's because they think it might rile up the deplorables. But, I think it is important to note the key difference between now and prior Presidencies: the Trump administration constantly violates the law. All. The. Time.

I think if Democrats limit their investigations to obvious violates of the law over the past 2 years, they will have more than enough to look at. Simply asking why US citizens keep getting detained by ICE ought to lead to some ICE administrators going to jail, shouldn't it?

As some have already pointed out, some of these things are very much linked.

If you get accountability for launching a war on Iran because donnie is a goddamned idiot that hates Obama so much, well, that is related to affordability. Gas/diesel shot way up as a result, and that impacts the price of everything.

Same for the accountability of donnie throwing tariffs on everything.

Jeffries and Schumer only say affordability because Mamdami used it successfully of his winning mayoral campaign. Jeffries even used it to say that his meeting with the corrupt criminal Kushner had a meeting with him about affordability.

I don't know... that starts to look an awful lot like work.

lol pick one. Fucking amerikkka