this harry potter/us politics extended metaphor is not doing it for me
Is magic elite higher education in this metaphor?
this harry potter/us politics extended metaphor is not doing it for me
perhaps the stories about rag tag groups combining to win is such a popular trope is because it happens so rarely in real life
I think activists run through a version of this shit constantly... I've had a few big losses in the policy areas that I care about this year and know
I mean, let's depersonalize it: imagine being a kid organizing with Sunrise only to find that two cynical ass moderates can derail literally everything that you care about because it's worth a few hundred thousand in the piggybank.
I think he's trying to thread the same needle democrats are, which is that on paper he supports Biden's agenda, but materially it makes absolutely 0 difference to him, and he doesn't care who he alienates when his ideology doesn't get acted upon.
I thought we all knew that the Georgia run-offs were the difference between Mitch McConnell or Joe Manchin running the Senate. I'm not going to say it's as simple as MOAR DEMS in the Senate, but as we see in the House, it's a lot easier to get a progressive agenda through if there's a margin of error.
well you see sunrise movement, if your ideas are so good what you have to do is build a better coalition
In recent days, Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W. Va.) has told associates that he is considering leaving the Democratic Party if President Joe Biden and Democrats on Capitol Hill do not agree to his demand to cut the size of the social infrastructure bill from $3.5 trillion to $1.75 trillion, according to people who have heard Manchin discuss this. Manchin has said that if this were to happen, he would declare himself an “American Independent.” And he has devised a detailed exit strategy for his departure.
Dems were in a tough spot going into the special elections. Telling Georgians they needed to vote to stop McConnell and pass transformative legislation worked a lot better than telling them they needed to vote but Manchin was going to stop the good stuff.
You're older than I am, Ph, so you know that there'll just be another Manchin. I follow politics somewhat closely, but had no idea that Joe Manchin was going to come out of nowhere to become the latest saboteur from inside of the Democratic Party. Sinema was a Green Party activist, for crying out loud... You never know where the block is going to come from, but it's hard to really think that change is possible in a system that has so well institutionalized an aversion to material change.
We have examples in the past of leadership from the executive branch in bringing obstructionists to heel (e.g., Johnson's Great Society - like, imagine what LBJ would do to a Joe Manchin... he'd crush him and his entire fucking life like a cockroach), but then again we also know that the obstructionists still end up winning in a lot of ways anyway when we look at how the implementation of these progressive policies actually unfolds.