Aside from the conflation of liberals and leftists, this is mostly incorrect about the Clean Air and Clean Water Acts. The Clean Air Act was passed under Johnson, but major Amendments that expanded the regulatory power of the federal government were passed under Nixon and Bush (the first one). The Clean Water Act was signed into law under Nixon, who also pushed for the creation of EPA. Republicans are shit on the environment now, but it used to be a way more bipartisan issue, and Lawrence O'Donnell apparently doesn't know that.

Blue conservatives love to pretend they are leftists. That way anyone to the left of them seem like "unreasonable radicals".

It’s fucking hilarious how the commits under this is full of far left MAGA proving why any hope of uniting can never happen.

unfortunately the left has no idea how to unite. We get caught up on too many different issues to actually come together and be pragmatic.

I'm actually really concerned that the left might not even understand what the word pragmatic means.

All of these were fought for with literal blood well before any liberals decided it was in their interest to push legislation. Don't delude yourselves by thinking the libs did these things out of the kindness of their heart.

But ignorant chodes in their parent's basement keep telling me Democrats have never done anything of value.

Do your homework, folks.

2nd time liberals illusory truth effected what Radicalists praxied.

Stop spreading misinformation @cm0002@lemmings.world.

Let me tell you a thing that is not often mentioned, which I think contributed to the rise of the American right we see today. In the us, unlike in Europe where freedom was economically tied to the rise of lower classes in their struggle against landowners and aristocracy, the notion of freedom implied a freedom from the norms of the majority. This is the old "frontier myth". Then the prairie was settled, but that myth was entrenched. Then the internet came and opened up an unlimited and unregulated space for these cults and alternative views, and since the technological dynamics constantly drives everyone away from pain and towards pleasure, that is confirmation of existing beliefs, the "echo chambers" mushroomed. Because of historical baggage, the US was predisposed towards eccentricity, in a way. On top of this comes the fact that Congress has always had a very very low approval rating. It is epitomized by the representatives who read the phone book out loud, or filibuster, from the podium in order to sabotage the passing of legislation. At salaries paid by the taxpayer!! Then there is the annual shutdown ritual over the raising of the debt ceiling, which could have been avoided by switching from absolute numbers to a percentage of GDP. But it is a ritual, like the knocking on the door of the British parliament. So they keep it. But it adds an impression that they do nothing, that everything is jammed and that no representatives from different parties ever talk to each other over coffee, and that "hate" remains even after the cameras are off.

Republicans did create the EPA but then they destroyed it

I'd be curious to see a similar list for the Reich. Like a legitimate one though, where they actually try to list what they're proud of. At the moment I can only think of a list containing a bunch of "cut taxes for the ultra wealthy."