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How many times has Joe Biden touted any of his trillion dollar agenda as a reason to try to keep the House and/or win 2 seats in the Senate? Is it greater than zero? @JStein_WaPo/1384493137213726723
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In 2010, when Democrats lost their 60th Senate seat in Massachusetts, Democratic Senate staffers were... "Relieved" that they wouldn't get to pass their agenda. web.archive.org/web/20100123125021/http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2010/01/relieved.php
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"The worst is that I can't help but feel like the main emotion people in the caucus are feeling is relief at this turn of events. Now they have a ready excuse for not getting anything done." This remains the most insightful moment for understanding the Democratic elite.
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Democratic politicians campaign for mass support, but most are funded by and loyal to the corporate elite. Most also identify with the interests of their own top 10% of the country.
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Their electoral interests are served by having policy differences with the GOP, but also never implementing those policies. As a result, they don't even try to win a strong majority, or demand that by representing a majority of the population they have the right to legislate.
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Now some Democrats have invested in building an alternate, crowdsourced funding base since 2010, but most remain beholden to their funders and committed to actually accomplishing as little as possible.