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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.