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"The GOP is actively preventing Biden from passing legislation. That makes them bad!"
"Biden isn't able to pass any good legislation. That makes him equally as bad!"
A generation of people got fucked with student loan debt. It is wrong. Debt forgiveness does not fix the root of the problem though. Government needs to find a way to lower post secondary costs.
Sure.
um. No; Free Education. Free education fixes the root of the problem.
It's always an interesting balance the conservatives try. They want a strong country and economy. But they also want to keep religious opinions respected above science and exclusive access. Education is the best means of truly making America Great. If every American was educated and had the ability to learn critical decision making, conservatives would be a true minority.
Conservatives already are a true minority.
Conservatives have not won the popular vote in a presidential election since 1988 with one exception (Bush Jr.'s reelection during the post-9/11 surge of patriotism). So, in the last 8 presidential elections over the course of 32 years, conservatives won the popular vote once (edit: and I'd argue that even that win was an aberration caused by 9/11 and the Bush administration's misinformation campaign regarding WMD's in Iraq).
Might I suggest a version of this for all states? Tuition, fees, and books for all I state in public universities (income based)
https://www.mass.edu/osfa/programs/massgrantplusexp.asp
Old enough to remember 2009, when the Senate had a 60 vote majority but Joe Lieberman kept threatening to join the filibuster with Republicans, so nothing could pass. He famously gutted the Public Option from the ACA with no effort by Obama to save it. Then in 2016, Chuck Schumer allowed an open SCOTUS seat to languish for 11 months because he didn't want to hold up any other Senate business for Mitch McConnell. Then in 2020, Dianne Feinstein couldn't stale the Judiciary Committee for even 3 months to keep ACB out in time for Biden to take office - ACB was seated a week before the general election. Then you've got trillions in bank bailouts, an SEC that doesn't prosecute obvious financial crimes, and an IRS that primarily prosecutes people earning under $20k/year. And every fucking thing that McKinsey Consultant Pete Buttigieg stands for.
This isn't just a Joe Biden problem, although the guy who gave Strom Thurmond's Eulogy is definitely a part of the problem. This is a party that exists entirely as a placeholder when Republicans aren't in power, in order to guarantee only business-friendly legislation and war funding is ever under consideration.
bOtH pArTiEs ArE tHe SaMe LoL aMiRiTe?!!
(smugly does nothing, mindlessly fondling their purity then lovingly sniffing their fingers)
bOy Oh BoY, i SuRe aM sPeCiaL! a RaRe JeWeL! tHe CeNtEr Of ThE uNiVeRsE!