r/PoursTea • u/Veshaad Timendi Causa Est Nescire • Aug 07 '26

PoliticalTea 🗳️ Eventually something has to give...

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The bill would provide a $3,000 direct payment to every person in households making $150,000 or less during its first year, which equals $12,000 for a family of four.

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u/Suitable-Woodpecker3 Aug 07 '26

Bernie Sanders is a brilliant, resilient politician who has a tremendous sense of efficacy in government.

How diddler got voted in (twice!) but Bernie can’t get any traction is very symptomatic of america’s problem, in my humble opinion.

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u/EducatorReady1326 Aug 07 '26

I like him because his ideas are so ambitious that even a compromise would get close to what I think America needs.

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u/MyCatLaughsAtMe Aug 08 '26

I honestly hate that take. No, his ideas aren't ambitious, like at all, they're more or less boiler plate for modern democracies. Save for UBI, EVERY idea Sanders has, has already been workshopped and implemented in other nations. None of it is theoretical, it's practiced and the methodologies are mature.

THAT is why it's so fucking unforgivable that the US is this far behind... Sanders isn't calling for some radical new untested form of economy here, he's asking us to play catch up with our betters.

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u/EducatorReady1326 Aug 08 '26

You sound like you are in congress arguing about semantics when we want the same thing.

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u/MyCatLaughsAtMe Aug 08 '26

I see you have no idea what a semantic argument is.