In short, having huge numbers of Americans complain to Congress, as with this piece of legislation, can influence laws at the margin.

The rest of the bill is still awful; it imposes new and large taxes on wind and solar while eliminating subsidies for them, funds a the deportation of millions, cuts medicaid sharply (in large part through imposing onerous paperwork on people) and cuts taxes for billionaires while raising them on the poor.

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[–] 42 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

Oh, thank god. More than anything else happening now, selling off our public lands was what I feared most, because it would be irreversible. Everything else from the Trump era, aside from the cruel loss of life, can be undone, rebuilt, and countered with enough hard work and willpower. But not this.

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    Mormons. Lee is a Mormon. The Mormon church has >$250 billion in its coffers, and Utah is more than 70% public land.

    If they forced a public land selloff, the church could buy every acre of it and turn Utah into their own little religious ethnostate.

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    [–] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    And where is the political opposition using this silver platter delivery of pissed off voters to siphon them for future elections? Where are the talk radio slogans? The bumper stickers? The slogan getting repeated in the news until even the other party starts using the language? The black and white TV ads showing a rich jerk building a 4th mansion at a pristine waterfront lake?

    The right is effective because their PR and media game is on point. Dems keep appealing to the "principles" and "better nature" that has unfortunately shown to be effective. Progressive parties (e.g. not Dems) need Dem money so they can actually run effective campaigns.

    Don't give to Dems!

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