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Student Loan Forgiveness: Supreme Court Strikes Down Biden’s Debt Forgiveness Plan
(www.nytimes.com)
this post was submitted on 30 Jun 2023
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Disappointed, but it makes sense that decisions with such huge implications should be clearly made by the legislative branch, not just at the whim of some executive department.
yep. if something like debt forgiveness has a lot of bipartisan support, it should be an easy bit of legislation to pass.
It does have bipartisan support, this is repeatedly shown in polling. But it doesn't matter what voters want. The interests of capital will be served above all else because of decades of antidemocratic moves.
Antidemocratic moves like
The US is just an oligarchy at this point and it's getting harder and harder for me to stay optimistic about getting out of it.
It's kind of funny how dumb the democrats are. If they said: "give us Congress and the presidency next cycle and we'll pass this as a law" .. they likely easily win.
But nope they won't say that, they won't do that... Just plain stupid of them.
The democrat party and those in it are really bad strategists. And they're really bad at messaging. They don't fight back against republican shenanigans, they don't know how to push policy, and they waste opportunities so often.
Biden could have packed the court, like trump did, with Democrats (because apparently the supreme court is a blatantly partisan institution now). But he won't.
I'm a democrat, but I'm always disappointed by democrat leaders and their decisions.