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1:03Now PlayingBiden's pledge to forgive ten thousand dollars in federal student loan debt was credited with helping drive record youth turnout, framed as keeping a campaign promise. Russell questioned what it actually says about a society when piecemeal measures, delivered inefficiently, get celebrated as major victories rather than the bare minimum. He argued that if a pledge is big enough to mobilize voters, it should be big enough to actually deliver on properly, suggesting that small, incomplete gestures often function less as genuine progress and more as tactical maneuvering to keep people motivated without inconveniencing the people actually funding the campaign. Sometimes the size of the celebration says more than the size of the win.
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