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Until "Right to Work" and "Citizens United vs. Federal Election Commission" are dealt with don't expect much.
Too many American families have been beat down to where two incomes are needed to stay afloat. Lose one income and the family is in dire financial straights.
With job protections being minimal and (for the most part) weak unions don't expect much until a significant percent decide they have nothing to lose.
Driving down the cost of living should be a bedrock democrat priority. Necessities need to be cheaper. >

You can bet that at least Manchin will be one of the ones throwing a temper tantrum. >

"Daddy make them stop!" >

Sep 21, 2021 Manchin's daughter, Heather Bresch, was the president and chief executive officer of Mylan Inc ., a pharmaceutical company that specialized in generic drugs. The company raised the price of a two-pack of EpiPen from around $124 dollars in 2009 to $609 in 2016. >

And Manchin help push through making them mandatory in schools, at full price. >

Imagine if all of our politicians did their jobs and acted in the best interest of their constituents instead of betraying their offices by fucking over Americans, purely to continue stacking up their already considerable wealth.
The US has so much wealth, power, and resources; just imagine how much more prosperous all of our lives could be (99% of them anyways) be if our elected officials actually did their jobs and ran the all-time richest ever country for the people.
It’s a damn shame that the lack of a limit for greed is one of the main flaws of human psychology... we could’ve been such a more advanced, healthy civilization by now. >

sigh...we need a 4th branch to watch the congress, 5th branch to watch the supreme court, 6th branch to watch the president, because the three branches checks and balances are not working. >

IMHO, the biggest thing America is lacking is a free and well organized workforce (e.g. real unions, workers' owned news media, workers' NGOs and other associations, etc.). 
Because, in government and in the economy, they are the counterbalance to the elites, to corporations and to the ultra-wealthy. Without them, there's no checks-and-balances nor resistance on capitalism's path to "enslave" and corrupt everything and everybody.
In politics, they are to left wing parties, what capitalists are to right wing parties. Without them, left wing parties are severely weakened and tend to drift to the right. 
America's unions and workforce have been castrated, put in straitjackets, and stripped of their fundamental rights and freedoms (that several European countries take for granted, such as Denmark and other Nordic countries, Germany, France, and Switzerland).
And US population has been brainwashed into thinking of them as Satan's children. Thus, only 10% of the workforce is unionized (e.g. Denmark 67%, Sweden 65%, Iceland 91%)