To be fair, the President is utterly powerless to sway congressional votes. Votes are simply these things that happen. Attempts to coerce them are as Xerxes whipping the sea. Obama tried, but ultimately he had no principled choice except to allow senators to vote as they will, even if it continued the relentless meat grinder that we call a healthcare system in this country in favor of some wealthy donors. Maybe you call that "neoliberal ideology."
Anyway, I forgot where I was going. Point is, it's the Republicans' fault, and we need your help to defeat them next election cycle!
liberals believe voting is simultaneously the most important action you can take as a citizen and also this unknowable alien force that will simply always be at nearly half Republican, forever
With the mandate Obama rode in on, if he had wanted to push for single payer and he was obstructed by any Senate Democrat he could have gone into their state and ended their career permanently. But of course, if he had that kind of spine and that kind of agenda, he would have never been allowed to win.
"Last decade I thought you really intended to do something for this country. Now I have given it all up. Henceforward I am swearing eternal vengeance on the financial barons and will do every single thing I can to bring about communism."
a Chapo.chat poster to Barack Hussein Obama, December 11, 2020
To be fair, the President is utterly powerless to sway congressional votes. Votes are simply these things that happen. Attempts to coerce them are as Xerxes whipping the sea. Obama tried, but ultimately he had no principled choice except to allow senators to vote as they will, even if it continued the relentless meat grinder that we call a healthcare system in this country in favor of some wealthy donors. Maybe you call that "neoliberal ideology."
Anyway, I forgot where I was going. Point is, it's the Republicans' fault, and we need your help to defeat them next election cycle!
liberals believe voting is simultaneously the most important action you can take as a citizen and also this unknowable alien force that will simply always be at nearly half Republican, forever
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With the mandate Obama rode in on, if he had wanted to push for single payer and he was obstructed by any Senate Democrat he could have gone into their state and ended their career permanently. But of course, if he had that kind of spine and that kind of agenda, he would have never been allowed to win.
"Last decade I thought you really intended to do something for this country. Now I have given it all up. Henceforward I am swearing eternal vengeance on the financial barons and will do every single thing I can to bring about communism."