U.S. President Joe Biden plans to announce on Wednesday that his administration has approved an additional $9 billion in student debt relief for 125,000 borrowers, the White House said.
Biden has said he will pursue new measures to provide student loan relief to Americans after the Supreme Court blocked his plan to cancel hundreds of billions of dollars in debt.
The president’s announcement, planned for 1 p.m. EDT at the White House, will bring the total approved debt cancellation by the Biden administration to $127 billion for nearly 3.6 million Americans, the White House said.
There always has been but people are afraid to vote 3rd party because of the oligarchy’s brainwashing
It’s not brainwashing when the voting system is specifically set up to give an advantage to the dominant parties and to suppress every minority party. There are valid reasons to be skeptical that a 3rd party could ever win without a reformed voting system.
They also can’t win if everybody says “don’t vote for them because they can’t win” so I will carry on voting for them and spreading the word that we all should.
You’d be a lot better off voting for majority party candidates that want to enact ranked-choice voting.
Until that happens, unfortunately the reality is that third parties are going to remain on the margins in the US.
Political parties never change in the US. That’s why I’m still voting for the Whig party.
And it’s always settled to two major parties, in spite of that. The fact that we’ve had several parties over the country’s history but it almost always comes down to two major parties should tell you something.
Fortunately, there may be an opening soon, with Republicans in disarray.
They can’t win because they don’t even play the game correctly. You can’t just get up and give grand speeches about radically different ideas, with little to no strategy or evidence to back it up and expect to jump into literally the most powerful job in the world. It’s utter nonsense. Unless you’re a Billionaire that wants to buy your way in.
You can tell none of the third parties are serious because all their attention goes to the presidency.
They have no consideration for what would happen if they actually won. No representatives in the House, no senators, no state governors even. They’d be lame ducks the instant they were sworn in.
They should be targeting Congressional seats and state governorships. Instead, they’re just grifting money.
Congress spent the last century concentrating power in the executive. I think you’d be surprised what a motivated individual could accomplish.
You’re underestimating Congress. It still plays a lot of roles, especially the Senate. It just isn’t obvious because the president’s party typically has control at the beginning of their terms.
This would probably work for Greens except that they don’t have people running for those positions.
what’s the senate going to do? remove them? not if the senators are jailed on corruption and war crime charges.
You are aware that the Senate must confirm all cabinet positions, right?
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Simple Math = brainwashing
FPTP makes 3rd parties counterproductive.
It’s not fear. Third parties simply do not work with our system. If you want third parties to succeed, then we need to
Ideally star or approval instead of ranked, but honestly anything is better than the current shit show.
It’s not that simple. Several factors come into play.
The biggest systemic issues are the first past the post voting system and the electoral college (for president).
People who have even a simplistic understanding of how the system works and the track record for third parties know the odds are low. Those who are pragmatic will vote for Dem or Rep. In the current polarized political climate people are less likely to take a chance with a third party vote.
Also, the press mostly ignores candidates of other parties. So they aren’t as well known and thus can’t get popular enough to get traction.
If you really want more parties to have a chance, push for alternate voting systems like ranked choice, cumulative, etc.
This chart from fairvote.org compares a number of different systems based on their research.
In 2016 I voted for Gary Johnson because I thought there was really no way anyone would vote for the other two.
Gary Johnson is a fool who didn’t even act like he was seriously running for President. It looked like he drew the short straw.
Still a better choice than what we have today.
I have no idea what elements of libertarianism you like, nor why a ex-Republican for that roll in your mind, but he would have been a bad Republican, but not Trump. He had no chance so it really didn’t matter
And Jo Jorgensen in 2020!
Things I wrote in a GE sociology paper
Amen. Proud to support Dr. Cornel West and the Green party in 2024!
These people are really brainwashed, either that or it’s DNC bots downvoting you
After reading your post history, the only potential bot here is you Boris.
your russophobia is disgusting
So is every Russian who supports Putin.
I couldn’t give a fuck what you and all the rest of the lads at the troll farm think.
You think I’m Boris Johnson? Mate how did you know