Good Ideas

My very short opinion about election year 2024 is:

• You can't keep pretending that the thing happening on the front pages isn't happening, or that somehow people are wrong for caring about it [why are you so obsessed with Israel??? say people writing their 700th piece about Israel]
• You can't expect people to get excited about modest improvements, even if they are improvements.  One can accept the very real constraints of our political system - even, perhaps, understand them - while also wondering why it is the apparent outer limit of what Biden wants.  

Even if policies like this are the best Congress can deliver, they are hardly the stuff of campaign visions. I mean, look, even if this was good policy (it was not) who on Harris's campaign team  (back in 2019) thought this was something to boast about?

  

You have to have terminal DC Dem brain to think something like that is going to excite people! And terminally online Dem brain to think you can get people excited about it by yelling at them!

This is the apotheosis of "do good things - but only for the needy - but only for the DESERVING NEEDY who are therefore not all that needy" and thinking it is both smart policy and politics.  Student loan debt forgiveness for people who solve an impossible puzzle.