• john@lemmy.haley.ioOP
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      4 months ago

      So true. We’ve been on a tax-cut & deregulate spiral for 40+ years and it feels like we’re left with a government that can’t accomplish anything anymore.

      I’m hopeful with Harris but my god do we have to hold her feet to the fire.

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        4 months ago

        My man, if Obama or Biden had free reign, we’d be living in a very different world right now. The feet you need to hold to the fire are in Congress

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          4 months ago

          Congress. The place where they’ll take even more money out of the abysmally underfunded education, nutrition and child care programs, and send them to a single overbudget gross expenditure in who-the-fuck-knows.

          But right now it’s the god damn useless House. Before it was McConnell’s Senate treachery. The legislative branch would work wonders if both houses were blue.