I suppose you're right, plotting is technically planning.. I meant something more constructive or helpful, something that would improve the country in any arbitrary measurement.
The world is under going radical changes with commodified AI, regardless of how anyone feels about it, and US society is woefully unprepared because we're being sabotaged by a party of fascist demagogues.
They will literally turn to fascism, and just take your shit and throw you in a grinder. They don't care about the planet, the people, or anything other than their stock portfolios.
What does it even matter? Even if they ban it, it changes nothing because it's not like they would ever implement it anyway. And if the dems would want to implement UBI someday couldn't they just repeal the ban?
Republicans don't have a plan, outside of hurting 'the other.' Having a plan would mean having to defend something from scrutiny, and it's way easier to tear shit down than to build or refine.
Why are they blaming the republicans for banning UBI? Obama had a super majority, and the dems didn't pass a UBI or even an abortion bill, so obviously the Dems dont want it either.
tl;dr: the actual length of the supermajority was a few months, which they spent working on reform for the healthcare industry, where an estimated $2.4 trillion was spent in 2008.
Also, even the Green Party didn't add UBI to their platform until 2010.
I don't see where I said the length was 2 years? I said Obama had a super majority, and when he had it he said "abortion wasn't a priority," and neither was UBI. I don't give a shit about what republicans think.
So youre point is because the dems didnt make any UBI plans, it should now be forever banned? Even if they don't want it now, there's no reason to ban it unless youre a tyrant.
It won't be forever banned as soon as the dems decide they want it. The ban literally does nothing except signal to the republican base, but that law had no power to stop the federal government from providing UBI. Much like all the dumb bullshit states are doing with abortion could be simply and easily undone as soon as dems decide they actually cared about abortion beyond a fundraising opportunity.
But I'm sure Dems in Arizona are going to use the existence of a law, that does nothing, to send out thousands of emails urging you to donate to whatever dem candidate that has never cared about UBI, will never pass UBI and has no intention of passing a UBI.
No need to change history to protect your best friends, the blue capitalist party. In 2008 they had a super majority for a few months, specifically July and August. Now I should specify, that 60 votes isn't necessary at all, it's just another one of those convenient rules that only seems to matter if it's legislation democrats don't want to pass in the first place.
I have yet to hear a convincing argument as to why prices won't rise to include the UBI so people are effectively as poor as ever, meanwhile the money still goes to the companies gouging us for necessities, just with an extra stop along the way.
Edit: yeah, no, this is a dumb take because that exact fucking thing has never happened with anything else like college tuition 🙄
College tuition is a weird bird. Some colleges allegedly have attempted to lower prices for tuition and found that they had less students, claiming something about perceived value and standards.
I'm pretty sure it's all bullshit, but I'm definitely not running a study on pricing.