Proof-Variation7005 t1_isbnsdc wrote on October 14, 2022 at 6:56 PM

Reply to comment by relbatnrut in A five-story, 41-unit apartment building will be coming to Providence's West End by cowperthwaite

The problem with relying on something like gaining steam in progressive platforms is that it misses the part where progressives are a pretty goddamn small percentage of the electorate. I wouldn't call their share insignificant, but I'd definitely use the phrase "extremely outnumbered"

relbatnrut t1_isd8vzx wrote on October 15, 2022 at 1:55 AM

The point is that the idea is slowly becoming more mainstream. Cancelling student debt was a pretty fringe position only 5 years ago. By this year it was mainstream enough that our centrist democrat president picked it up and enacted it.