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Congressional Democrats Join Republicans to Undermine Biden Administration’s Surprise Medical Billing Rule

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TheBig3

The big dust up today seems to be Mitch McConnell alluding to his belief that black Americans aren't Americans. Not surprising, not a mistake I thought he'd make.

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James Carville on why Manchin is actually good, Sinema less so, and why 2022 isn’t quite hopeless yet.

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rubber soul

I like Carville, and he's right. We have to stop whining and make our voices heard. Activism didn't die with Martin Luther King after all.

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Queen Boo

Carville is a run of the mill neolib who represents everything wrong with the Democratic Party, he doesn't want our voices to be heard he just wants us to get in line and vote for whatever mediocre candidates the party establishment insists are our only future.

I'm so sick of all these "strategists" who have been blabbing their mouths on TV for 30 years and still haven't been right about anything.

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The Batlord

The whole reason people don't care about the Democratic Party is because they do nothing for anybody but peddle identity politics in lieu of material politics that might actually help people and have been doing so for so long that nobody believes government is capable of materially benefiting their lives, so that when someone like Bernie comes along and advocates something like Medicare for all the public doesn't even believe it's achievable. What this idiot is advocating for is simply more nothing that will inevitably lead voters to turn to the next right wing populist who comes along because whatever else they're saying their pro-business, anti-socialist rhetoric is at least in line with what voters have been conditioned to believe is within the realm of possibility. James Carville is just leading you down a defeatist path to fascism.

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Queen Boo

Identity politics is important and anyone on the left who trivializes it is playing into the right's hands, the right are the undisputed masters of identity politics and they know it, the last thing they want is for the left to weaponize it as well, this is why self proclaimed anti-idpol leftists like Jimmy Dore are so popular with the right because they're useful idiots.

What Democrats do is surface level pandering to marginalized communities without actually doing anything to change the system that is oppressing them. The problem isn't identity politics, the problem is that everyone knows the Democrats are full of sh*t.

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The Batlord

Yeah 100%, I just didn't think of specifying when I posted. My greater point is that the Dems use fake idpol as a distraction, not that real idpol isn't important.

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rubber soul

I can't argue that the Dems aren't guilty of pandering when they obviously are. I mean, who cares what the next justice looks like as long as he/she is a fair one? Blacks know this too but, unfortunately, they don't have anywhere else to go.

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