@rpardee Kinda makes you wonder why?
@AskTheDevil I'm baffled.
@rpardee That's probably because you think like a good, sensible, ethical person who cares what happens to other people.
If you start thinking in terms of what someone would do if they were bad, cowardly, greedy, or shady, it stops being baffling and just becomes infurating.
Like: Maybe it's convenient to leave it broken, so there will always be a war with Eastasia. So nobody _can_ fix the problems we elect people to fight, so they get elected forever.
They get privilege, we get Gilead.
@AskTheDevil are you suggesting Biden would prefer to have a democracy-destroying SCOTUS as a boogeyman?
That's too far for me.
@rpardee Having a boogeyman is very convenient, and what I've observed happening over the last 50 years leads me to believe that the Democratic party, as an entity - an organization - likes to always be on the _cusp_ of keeping important promises, but never quite being "able" to keep them.
There's always a Lieberman, Manchin, or nearly-nameless expendable party member to foil any votes the Republicans can't.
I absolutely do think there is a strategy of trying to maintain status quo.
@AskTheDevil wow, that's quite the conspiracy you have in mind.
To my way of thinking, there are always going to be monied interests favoring the status quo, but the dems have generally done what they can when they are in power. Individual politicians have been corrupt, sure (Sinema comes right to mind). But I don't see any puppet strings controlled by a mastermind, telling e.g., Lieberman to oppose a public option.
@AskTheDevil This sort of argument often seems to lead to "both parties are the same" conclusions, which I hope you're not driving towards.