Reply #41: You people bitch about the bully pulpit. It gets used. So you then dismiss the bully pulpit's use. [View All]

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It has nothing to fucking do with trust anyway. If they put a progressive bill on the President's desk, theres a 99% chance he will sign it. His trustworthiness has ZERO to do with the dominant ideologies in Congress. Thats been the problem since day ONE. Compromises and watering down of otherwise great bills only happened because the numbers were not there. And the numbers weren't there because the 400-500 people who gets just as much of a say as the President does, don't want to follow through with some of the more progressive approaches. The new Congress is NOT progressive. And the Senate hasn't been progressive in decades. As long as that dynamic exists, you will not get single payer, you will not get a reliable, equitable tax structure, you will not have these things. People need to accept that so that we can spend our time on the actual culprit.

So many so called liberals seem to get all warm and fuzzy talking about the balance of power... until its responsible for preventing us from getting something we want, then its like it suddenly doesn't exist and isn't to blame for anything. Its such a counterproductive phenomena.