So according to you, politicians aren’t allowed to express their opinions on any issue or propose any policies, unless they have the ability to foretell the result of all the upcoming elections, to know exactly who will be elected and if there will be enough support from the other 535 people needed for making laws. Got it.
So we will run on nothing and say nothing about any possible policies until we already know it has happened after the election, just to be safe. Dems will win in a landslide for sure, running on this message of we won’t say.
And I assume you are upset with every politician who ever proposed something that then didn’t happen. Bernie, AOC, how dare you mention single payer and then don’t make it happen.
Look, breaking a campaign promise would be if a politician is running for a position, that position has the power to do something and then they don’t do it. The president cannot make a public option out of thin air. It must be passed as a law. They have some influence for sure. But a broken campaign promise would be congress passed a public option, sent it to Biden’s desk, and then he vetoed it. That would be a broken campaign promise.
I didn’t say that politicians can’t have a platform. I’m saying that we shouldn’t run after the carrot on the stick every 4 god damn years. Biden used that, just as he’s using rent stabilization, as a carrot on a stick to draw in progressives with no intent to act on it. Unlike Biden’s attempts and limited successes on student loan forgiveness, Biden never once attempted to get a public option. He’s not going to do rent stabilization either, even at his stupidly high percentage proposal.
Okay, so if the goal isn’t accomplished in 4 years, politicians are no longer able to mention it again, got it.
And he can’t do either of these things congress would be require for both. Neither are promises.
I don’t think Sanders and AOC would be pushing so hard for Biden to stay the candidate if they didn’t think he was the best way to get policies they approve of in action.
