• Habahnow@sh.itjust.works
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    2 months ago

    What happened to the public option that candidate Biden talked about so much?

    Pray tell, how would Biden get that passed with the current political setting?

    Biden is a president, not a king, he can’t just deschedule marijuana unilaterally without causing problems, he needs Congress to help. Look at your answer to my first question to see how that gets done. Some info: https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/04/20/over-80-groups-urge-biden-administration-end-federal-prohibition-marijuana-and

    Our infrastructure is 10-15 years behind China and falling further behind.

    Again, look at your answer to my first question.

    It feels like you want Biden to fix everything, while completely unaware of how our government works. Which brings us to why people compare Trump to Biden, because people will have to vote for one or the other in the election. Is you want better and more extensive changes, vote for the Democrats that can only take baby steps at the moment. When they get more control on Congress, they can make bigger steps.

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      2 months ago

      When Biden was elected, Dems controlled both houses of congress. What stopped him from pushing his public option plan then?

      What is stopping him from pushing to deschedule cannabis completely? Even if congress gets in his way, people would give him massive credit for actually trying.

      You say we need to elect more Democrats to make bigger steps, but we did that in 2008 and 2020 and still we get baby steps. Why?

      If the president is so powerless, then why are people worried about project 2025 and “dictator on day 1” Trump? Surely they must be confused, because the adults in the room like you know that the president is actually unable to pass meaningful legislation.

      Please educate me since I’m completely unaware how our government works.

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        2 months ago

        Dems controlled both houses of congress. What stopped him from pushing his public option plan then?

        Manchin and Sinema, mainly, but also the 60-vote filibuster threshold. Forgot already?

        then why are people worried about project 2025 and “dictator on day 1” Trump?

        Because reasonable people don’t want the president to attempt authoritarian rule in order to progress his agenda. The fact that it is possible to do that is a big fucking issue and yet here we are, watching it happen with Trump. That doesn’t mean Biden should do it. It should not [and cannot be allowed to] happen at all.