I don’t have any medical debt at the moment, and I think there are probably some better long-term things we could spend our extremely valuable and limited political capital on, so naturally I strongly support this because I’m not a fucking inhuman monster.
That’s how I felt about student debt. Especially the last part.
Five people stopped reading half way through
Why, did they die of an easily treatable disease?
I read that as “Bernie Sanders and Bo Katan” and was excited for a cool starwars crossover event
Okay, but just like student debt, it doesn’t fix the actual problem. Bailing water out of a ship doesn’t do much compared to fixing the fucking hole in the hull.
Sanders knows that and wants to do both. He mentioned in the statement quoted in the article.
He wants to have universal healthcare and wants cancel existing debt for anyone fucked by the current system.
It also doesn’t stand a chance in hell of passing. It’s grandstanding, if anything
A congresspersons job is to advance bills consistent with their platform, and the will of their constituents. talking about favoring some hypothetical bill is grandstanding. Actually building the thing and bringing it forward is the real deal.
Now, some bills have little to no chance of passing. This is one of those. But Bernie can’t control who he sits next to.
Don’t let perfection block the path to progress.
“Don’t let you ass block the path of my foot” - Red
I love how, whenever centrists kill some progressive policy, centrists are like “don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good,” but let a progressive suggest actual incremental change toward something centrists don’t want to do, and suddenly centrists want immediate perfection.