It's Time For Pollyanna Liberalism To Die

[Swede]

The current President of the United States is not calling up Sean Hannity every night for leadership tips and he won’t tweet us into war with North Korea or Canada. Great.

But things aren’t magically just going to work themselves out. The minute Democrats got control of the Senate after the special election in Georgia, the clock began to loudly tick.

Yet instead of understanding that the window is rapidly already closing, Democratic leaders appear to once again be sleepwalking. After the passage of the Rescue Act, Congress has seemingly run into molasses.

https://oliverwillis.com/its-time-for-pollyanna-liberalism-to-die/

[The Magistrate]

1. Hear Hear, Sir!

[rickyhall]

2. Seems they've forgotten about school loans.

Once heard amnesty after 35 years, nothing since. I'm going on 40 and living on SS.

[Irish_Dem]

3. We've been hit hard with reality sandwiches: trump, 1/6, pandemic. Reality is sinking in for Dems?

We are in still in shock I think about how very very bad things are, but beginning to face it?

[Fiendish Thingy]

4. Substance-free pearl clutching

That will not happen, and it isn’t just because of the absurdist assertions of Sens. Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema. If both of those senators fell in line with the most progressive wing of the Democratic Party immediately, there would still be considerable institutional inertia preventing necessary action.

Oh really? If Manchin and Sinema “fell in line with the most progressive wing of the Democratic Party”, both infrastructure bills would already be signed into law at their full price tags, the filibuster would be dead, and voting rights, immigration rights, abortion rights, and numerous other items on Biden’s agenda would be law, all but ensuring Dems victory in 2022-24.

[Kid Berwyn]

5. Exactly.

TY Fiendish Thingy — from one little feather on the Democratic Wing of the Democratic Party.

[wellst0nev0ter]

6. Actually, there are at least 8 Democratic Senators who are ready to break at any time

Remember the $15 minimum wage vote?

[Paladin]

7. Amen, Amen, Amen.

Ditch the goody-two-shoes Democratic behavior. We're riding the politeness wagon into a fascist dictatorship. I've been screaming this advice for years and years, here at DU. And look where we find ourselves, now. Raise hell with your elected representatives and organize heated protests, coast to coast---that'll do, for starters.