Biden to call for 5% cap on annual rent increases, as he tries to show plans to tame inflation - eviltoast
  • daltotron@lemmy.ml
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    4 months ago

    I mean yeah, but I’m not sure we won’t just poison pill them again as soon as the metronome swings back around and keeps us from having anything nice.

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      4 months ago

      You could use that argument with any government function or public good though. Why do anything if the GOP could poison pill it?

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        4 months ago

        I mean I would just get rid of the GOP if that were a viable option. and probably also the political system in which we live, as a whole.

        I do think more realistically though the only point I’m making is that it’s a kind of insanity to do the same thing over and over again and expect a different outcome, without understanding why they’re able to poison pill anything and everything and roll back any advancements as soon as they feel that the public pressure has let up enough. There’s a deeper issue there beyond just the lack of public housing, an issue that causes that lack of public housing in the first place, and simply building massive amounts of public housing, even if we were able to do that, which would be quite a feat, and something I would be happy about, even that would be a temporary solution, as we’ve seen.

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          4 months ago

          I absolutely agree but until we get the grassroots to agree then anything like a constitutional convention is just asking for a dictator.