50 years of political loyalty to 1 party should be considered more than enough of a reward to the DNC. It shouldn't have taken an entire twitter movement/outrage to get Dems to mention and back HR40. At this point, it should be just "rewarding good behavior" (since we're using parental analogies) but also if not moreso disciplining them as well. Keep your eyes on the Dems and when they get offtrack, set them straight. When they don't listen about the stove being hot, let them try it out for themselves.
Politics isn't moved by the good, but by the disciplined and the willing. We just hope that they are good.
That doesn't make any sense. Support 40-50 years ago, even 10 years ago, is irrelevant to whether the move towards HR40 is incentivized or not.
Coates's "The Case For Reparations" column is what began moving the Overton Window in this direction. The push of the radical left from Bernie's surprising viability in 2016 and then the Squad and company in 2018 is what made it that much more real. In previous eras it would NOT have gotten this far, you can see that even in how many people on this forum are gung-ho about reparations even though they never mentioned them before.
But we've seen from the past that current positive gains don't guarantee further gains. How do you incentivize further gains? By rewarding the ones moving in the right direction and penalizing the ones who are not. If you just say, "not good enough, fukk you" to all of them, and none of them see a present-day-viable way to win your support, then they're eventually gonna say "fukk you too then" and start chasing after votes they have a realistic shot of capturing.
Until 2016, no one had truly, effectively challenged the Democratic establishment in decades. Until 2018, no one had done it and won. In the aftermath of 2018, we for the first time have serious candidates in explicit support of HR 40. I say cement those gains and get behind those candidates, because HR 40 is by FAR the best thing you could hope for in any near-term future.
Then the next step, once you've rewarded some candidates who support HR 40, is to get enough of them to actually pass it. If any of the supporters fall back, you pull back your support. You do that until you get it through.
And THEN, when the recommendations of HR 40 actually come through, you force them to act on them. If they don't? Pull the support.
The carrot and the stick have to be used every step of the way. If you don't make use of the tools you have when they respond, then at some point they're just going to stop responding.
This serious clown tried to deflect than copped the plea and said thank you fukking clown
