We will just have to agree to disagree. As someone whose family members gained access to preventative healthcare after the ACA, and whose current plan was purchased on the exchange, I see it as legislation that could have become a pathway to something even better.

At some point, people have to look at voter behavior. If voters had rewarded Dems for voting for the ACA and other progressive policies, the lesson pols would have taken was they should keep moving in that direction. Instead, they kicked them out in historic #s.

The ACA isn't Medicare for All, but you must be pretty young if you think the ACA did nothing. That it has been undermined since inception doesn't mean it didn't accomplish anything.

I agree that they chose banks over homeowners, but that is not why the House flipped in 2010.

They passed the ACA and created the CFPB. Americans responded by putting the GOP in power in Congress by historic numbers. They stonewalled him for the rest of his presidency. Meanwhile, Biden was president for 2 years with a Dem House. Wasn't his opportunity just as good?

Lol. Yes. The wage stagnaton that started in the 1980s and the 2008 recession that started as a result of deregulation in the late 1990s is all Obama's fault. Oh, and the 2017 and 2025 tax cuts for the wealthy that passed under Trump. Obama has things he could have done better, but this is wild.

There are voters with no more than a hs diploma who looked at Trump and said, why, that there's a conman! There were debates available to watch for free where these issues were raised. Voters can't constantly offload their decisions onto the media and candidates if they want anything to improve.

America has been doing this to itself for a lot longer than 1 year.

The American voter shouted down anti-war protesters and re-elected Geoege Bush, only to cry about forever wars. Heard the GOP campaign for an end to the ACA and tax cuts for billionaires and gave them Congress. Heard Trump call for mass deportation and tarrifs and re-elected him.

It's not impossible. It's difficult. They may not want to bear the consequences of insubordination, but that doesn't mean that they *can't* refuse orders. It is a terrible choice to have to make, but it is a choice they can make. The cost of not making it is measured in lives lost.

Families split apart, immigrants abused, fed workers fired w/out cause, small businesses closed due to tarrifs, critical medical trials canceled, and the GOP is really mad at how they are being treated by the racist, sexist, corrupt man they lie for and bow down to every day. Fuck 'em all.

The problem is not that electeds get a pension. The problem is that Congress worked with big business in the 1970s/80s to sell workers on 401ks and voluntary savings, moving them away from the pensions that served workers much more effectively in the middle of the 20th century.

1) If we want people who aren't wealthy to run for office, then access to a pension makes sense. While elected, this is their job. How else would a Member w/out wealth earn retirement savings?

2) Raising the number to, say, 10yrs would just add 1 more reason for these people to never stop running.

The world already knows America is an unreliable ally. But I think Americans underestimate the way Trump's 2nd election can't simply be reversed by changing who is in Congress and then electing someone else as president. The mistrust isn't about Trump, at this point. It's about the American voter.

That may be true in aggregate, but it can't possibly be true if you isolate Black Americans as a group. Making $0 for a lifetime is kind of the epitome of income inequality, and wasn't even the worst aspect of slavery, which denied people the right to their own bodies, their children, their time.

This is why I laugh when people tell kids to tell the truth. Like, they should tell the truth, but we should also let them know that 92% of the time, the truth teller gets sacked because the person they push back on is above them in the org chart. True in for- and non-profits.

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