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by UncleMeat 151 days ago
"Social issues" does not appear in the text of your comment.

I do not understand how one can do economic things that are substantially larger than cancelling student loan debt while also not "pushing too hard and too fast on a lot of issues."
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palmotea 151 days ago
That was my mistake. I wrote "issues" when I could have been more specific and said "social issues."

I don't think addressing economic issues can be very alienating, except when they signal messed up priorities that exclude you. I don't think student loan forgiveness would have been that controversial if it were a smaller part of a larger package that overall addressed higher priorities or a broader base of people (e.g. a bunch of tariffs and programs to re-industrialize).

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UncleMeat 151 days ago
The Inflation Reduction Act was a large piece of legislation that had huge programs for re-industrialization, which produced measurable improvements in employment in these sectors.

Zero GOP legislators voted for it. It was pilloried on right wing media constantly.

I do not believe that there is any large scale economically-focused legislation that the democrats could push that would not be controversial.

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