Joe Biden Wants To Make Community College Free. Can Progressives Push Him Further?

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13. I wish that questions like this

were posed about Congress too. Joe can do some things as POTUS but it's going to take Congress to enact a lot of stuff as well. And I know most Dems support progressive things like this but we have to have enough of them, primarily in the Senate, to really get things done. Some (but not all) progressives think that they'll automatically get the policies want if they just elect the "right" POTUS (i.e. Bernie Sanders) but seem to blow right past the part of electing enough Democrats to Congress regularly to pass those laws. Democrats largely controlled Congress for several decades until 1994. By 2022, we have only had a grand total of 6 years (15%) where we've had both Congress and President in Democratic hands, which means that for 22 years (85%) of the last 28 years, we will have had either Republicans in full control of both branches or divided government. And people wonder why more progressive things don't get done. I try to explain this to some people on my FB over and over again, but just get accused of "making excuses" for Democrats.