Serious question: What does the CBC actually help us with?

[Professor Emeritus]

Worth pointing out they ain't a monolith - not everyone in the CBC has the same agenda.

But among them, they're the ones who kept reparations in the conversation, they're the ones who kept racial health care disparities in the conversation, they're the ones who kept prison sentence reform in the conversation, they're the ones who kept police brutality in the conversation, they're the ones who kept voting rights in the conversation....basically they highlight issues that most rich white legislators wouldn't highlight. They don't have enough power to act on those issues on their own but they at least do something to bring those issues to national attention.

What % of Congress is the Manchin and Sinema Caucus?

They effectively obstruct the Dems in order to maintain the status quo. If you want the CBC to do that then they could do that.

 

[Professor Emeritus]

How about they try obstructing the expansion of the military industrial complex or droning random innocent people across the globe?

Defense bill passed 363-70, they can't stop a landslide. That being said, it's annoying that so much of the CBC just lines up behind defense bill authorization, only the liberals voted no.

 

[wire28]

He's a Somali refugee living in Canada. His understanding of American politics or what it means to be black in America are purely academic.

once you see a lot of these posters backgrounds their ignorance really starts to make sense

 

[Broke Wave]

He's a Somali refugee living in Canada. His understanding of American politics or what it means to be black in America are purely academic.

This is a foul way to talk about someone who offers you debates politely on a forum. Referring to me as a Somali Refugee as some kind of dismissive classist retort is very par for the course for you but still a little tasteless. Of course I have never once indicated that I was ever a refugee but @FAH1223 maybe was. Even if that were the case how does that have any relevance to this discussion?

Furthermore, not being an American, all my understanding of American politics is purely academic. That can also be said about an astronomers knowledge of Mars or the galaxies beyond. Proximity to something can only increase knowledge in some cases, but in something that permeates all aspects of global politics, only a cursory glance at the U.S. and it’s internal mechanisms is required to get the full scope.