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Sanders Gets GOP Leader to Agree to Work On Medicare Covering Dental, Hearing, and Vision
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God if this doesn't summarize Bernie's career in a nutshell; A viral empowering moment that feels amazing on first glance, but in reality it's just a virtue signal. Absolutely nothing of consequence was accomplished, and absolutely nothing meaningful changes.
This man has been in Congress for longer than I have been alive. He's had serious pull in the democratic party for almost a full decade now. At some point platitudes don't cut it.
I disagree on such a wholehearted level.
'He's had serious pull in the democratic party for almost a decade' - do you mean 8 years ago when the DNC yanked his spot and went full force behind Hillary, and then relegated him to a 'radical leftist' camp away from the core groups like Schumer and Pelosi?
He's been on the fringe of the party for as long as he's been in the party. Consistently standing up for issues that are later accepted. He's CONSTANTLY fighting for human rights and taking stances too far left to be mainstream, making all of the pushes seemingly moot because he can't get bills to the floor in a republican congress because SOCIALISM and he can't get bills to the floor in a Democrat congress because we never get to have one, and when we do, they say they're not 'bi-partisan enough to pass across the aisle'.
Is he effective at getting laws passed, no. Is he a solitary and stalwart voice of reason almost every. single. time? Yes.
That's actually exactly what I mean. Eight years ago is "almost a decade". Since his defeat in the 2016 democratic primaries:
Dude has had massive political and social pull for a long time now, and has very little to show for it.