In a 6-3 decision, the court’s conservative majority rejected President Biden’s plan to cancel more than $400 billion in student loan debt for millions of borrowers. It would have been one of the most expensive executive actions in U.S. history.
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.
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.
It’s kind of funny how dumb the democrats are. If they said: “give us Congress and the presidency next cycle and we’ll pass this as a law” … they likely easily win.
But nope they won’t say that, they won’t do that… Just plain stupid of them.
The democrat party and those in it are really bad strategists. And they’re really bad at messaging. They don’t fight back against republican shenanigans, they don’t know how to push policy, and they waste opportunities so often.
Biden could have packed the court, like trump did, with Democrats (because apparently the supreme court is a blatantly partisan institution now). But he won’t.
I’m a democrat, but I’m always disappointed by democrat leaders and their decisions.
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.
yep. if something like debt forgiveness has a lot of bipartisan support, it should be an easy bit of legislation to pass.
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
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.
It’s kind of funny how dumb the democrats are. If they said: “give us Congress and the presidency next cycle and we’ll pass this as a law” … they likely easily win.
But nope they won’t say that, they won’t do that… Just plain stupid of them.
The democrat party and those in it are really bad strategists. And they’re really bad at messaging. They don’t fight back against republican shenanigans, they don’t know how to push policy, and they waste opportunities so often.
Biden could have packed the court, like trump did, with Democrats (because apparently the supreme court is a blatantly partisan institution now). But he won’t.
I’m a democrat, but I’m always disappointed by democrat leaders and their decisions.