Working people want to see the Squad stand up to the establishment. Progressive leaders and leaders of major labor unions need to harness that desire and publicly urge that the Squad use their numerical balance & refuse to vote on the MUST PASS stimulus bill unless $15 is in it.— Kshama Sawant (@cmkshama) March 6, 2021
Or has the moment passed and the House already voted on the bill?
Everything the left does they get blamed for as some negative. This is the exact same argument made against Sanders, that they'd call him a communist.
Biden WON running on $15 minimum wage as his main policy, hold him to it. People won't be very mad for long after we have a $15 minimum wage thanks to them.
Biden WON running on $15 minimum wage as his main policy
His main policy was "I'm not Trump, let's forget about all that and go back to the Obama years." He was by far the most conservative candidate in the field.
He put a bunch of progressive stuff on his website solely for the purpose of browbeating the left into voting for him -- he never believed it, his supporters never cared about it, and no one who isn't already on our side is going to be bothered by him blowing all that stuff off.
The folks who voted for him didn't care about his policies. Before he won the nomination all they talked about was his electability, and afterwards all they talked about was how shitty Trump was.
Whatever they did think about his policies, they're not going to hold him to. Look at how obvious the promise of "$2000 checks" was, and how many rank-and-file Democrats are fine with means-tested $1400 checks (and lower unemployment funding). There's no way to hold Biden accountable to his campaign promises period, and that goes double for policies his supporters knew to be insincere, to the extent they knew about them at all.
Everything the left does they get blamed for as some negative. This is the exact same argument made against Sanders, that they'd call him a communist.
Biden WON running on $15 minimum wage as his main policy, hold him to it. People won't be very mad for long after we have a $15 minimum wage thanks to them.
His main policy was "I'm not Trump, let's forget about all that and go back to the Obama years." He was by far the most conservative candidate in the field.
He put a bunch of progressive stuff on his website solely for the purpose of browbeating the left into voting for him -- he never believed it, his supporters never cared about it, and no one who isn't already on our side is going to be bothered by him blowing all that stuff off.
But if anyone could name a single policy of his, it was $15 minimum wage. It's the one he talked about the most, after simply, winning the presidency.
The folks who voted for him didn't care about his policies. Before he won the nomination all they talked about was his electability, and afterwards all they talked about was how shitty Trump was.
Whatever they did think about his policies, they're not going to hold him to. Look at how obvious the promise of "$2000 checks" was, and how many rank-and-file Democrats are fine with means-tested $1400 checks (and lower unemployment funding). There's no way to hold Biden accountable to his campaign promises period, and that goes double for policies his supporters knew to be insincere, to the extent they knew about them at all.
I kind of feel like there are some people who voted for him because he promised an improvement in their material conditions.
And even more people who would understand the progressives actually holding him accountable for it.