Progressives to buck party by voting against $3T coronavirus relief bill

[Jamastiene]

3. Cutting noses off to spite faces?

I disagree with their decision. We need something....*anything* at this point. We'll be damned lucky to get anything else with stimulus for average Americans like the first time. The longer they put off anything that helps average Americans, the less likely they are to get anything at all through. We were damned lucky to get anything the the first time around.

Meanwhile, in other countries, they are giving citizens at least a temporary UBI and healthcare. America's government is stingy as fuck. I admire progressives for wanting more, but we won't get it under the current circumstances.

Pragmatism, as much as I hated it at one time, and as long and as hard as I fought against it, might be our only hope. Yes, I said that. I finally realized cutting off our noses to spite our faces doesn't get us anywhere. There has GOT to be a better way.