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Student Loan Forgiveness: Supreme Court Strikes Down Biden’s Debt Forgiveness Plan (www.nytimes.com)

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Disappointed, but it makes sense that decisions with such huge implications should be clearly made by the legislative branch, not just at the whim of some executive department.

[–] tallwookie 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

yep. if something like debt forgiveness has a lot of bipartisan support, it should be an easy bit of legislation to pass.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

It does have bipartisan support, this is repeatedly shown in polling. But it doesn't matter what voters want. The interests of capital will be served above all else because of decades of antidemocratic moves.

Antidemocratic moves like

Legalized bribes that push politicians towards the interests of capital.
Gerrymandering, voter suppression, and the electoral college which all reduce progressive and leftist voices to the point where we need massively more votes than right wingers to get the same power.
Filibuster power that firmly cements the status quo by requiring the majority of bills get a supermajority vote to pass.
Democrats being unwilling to wield their power to revoke the filibuster and enact their legislative agenda
The rotating villian democrats always seem to have have who can spoil anything even close to progress by one or two votes (Manchin and Sinema for now)

The US is just an oligarchy at this point and it's getting harder and harder for me to stay optimistic about getting out of it.