Comments by "" (@thehumanity0) on "How Pelosi Can Redeem Herself After #PayGo" video.
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@auntiebobbolink is partly correct. I do not agree with PayGo one tiny bit, I want to make that very clear, but there seems to be quite a bit of hysteria about this right now. The Dems had PayGo before, and still passed the ACA and other legislation. It forsure just adds another hurdle to Med4All and others, but I don't think it's the end-all-be-all as many people are trying to make it out to be. For one, we're living in an age of Trump, so Medicare for All and ALLLLL the other progressive legislation will never pass anyways, and by the time Trump is out of office, there could be a new Rules Package that does not include PayGo depending on if the party continues to shift Left for the next 2 years (which it will). As for the criticisms against the progressives that voted for the rules package, they did NOT vote directly for PayGo, PayGo was slipped in there in a slimy way and if not for Pramila Jayapal and other progressives working on a compromise, we would've gotten PayGo AND the 3/5 tax rule which was arguably much MUCH worse considering it made it so any legislation that raised taxes on the middle class would need a super majority in the House. The progressives working on the package made sure that did not happen, so I find it hard to be that mad at them since they WERE fighting for us while simultaneously receiving a ton of shit from people for a half-measure. The thing is though that many Youtube commentators were wrong in their analysis on the vote, the Dems needed far more than 18 votes to vote down the Rules Package since many Republicans ended voting for it, so if not for the progressives that worked on the compromise, we would've gotten both PayGo and the tax rule and it would've been far more disastrous. People won't acknowledge this because anger is far easier to cope with than understanding the semantics of politics, but this IS the reality of the situation and even if every progressive in the House voted against the Rules Package, it still would've gone through and we would be in far worse shape. Politics sucks, but people need to realize that nobody "sold out" on this issue, they were given an impossible situation to deal with and they chose to minimize damage to their agenda rather than appease their base with vapid actions that would've only made things worse.
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