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People always want to blame voters, but why does no one blame Biden for not doing enough?
If we convince Biden to be more progressive to get votes, we might beat trump and make progress.
If we convince voters, that's millions of more individuals that need convincing.
Plus, and this should go without saying, one of those options actually come with progress.
Hell, just not funding a genocide would probably cinch him the election, and that would likely mean one less genocide happening on the planet.
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Biden fired the guy who used to be in charge of the NLRB and installed a bunch of actual labor people, who have been materially supporting these historic union gains the last couple of years
And also invested hundreds of billions of dollars in domestic manufacturing, such that wages are actually going up at the bottom end of the scale for the first time in quite a while, outpacing even historic inflation
And also tried to forgive half a trillion dollars worth of student loan debt, the Supreme Court told him no, and so he used his own authority to forgive around $150 billion of it
And took big action on climate change for the first time in US history ever
And also raised corporate taxes significantly to fund all that stuff
I don't think the issue is that Biden isn't progressive enough, although further more progressive than Biden would obviously be better. It is that the news media in this country doesn't give a fuck about anybody below the $120k/year level and so doesn't report any of that (or generally not as a good thing, in the rare cases that they do). But it still all happened.
Your civics teacher drinks because of you
Biden has been the best president since Jimmy Carter.
Without a doubt, Biden's been the best president since Obama
When neoliberals and republicans talk about "the economy" the average American just doesn't matter. We don't have enough wealth to be a rounding error in this discussion, even all of us combined isn't significant at that scale.
It's about the giant corporations that squeeze money from the citizens. People can't buy shit anymore, but corporations keep posting record profit, so the economy says everything is great and to double down.
They think they're right, but they're using the metrics.
Because there has been plenty done and you are painfully, obviously unaware.
You had 4 years of mismanagement and grifting culminating in insurrection, and that was after 8 years of eroding civil rights and lying the country into shit like invading Iraq… and now you’re basically whining that Biden didn’t bring about a utopia in a single term post pandemic.
You know what republicans do when someone criticizes trump?
Call them a dirty liberal.
Please stop acting like Republicans. We're all fucked if both parties act like that
In no fucking way did I do that. I mentioned reasons why your expectations are out of whack and how there’s plenty of evidence that you’re not aware of.
And you say I’m acting like a republican calling names? Get the fuck out of here with that level of stupidity.
Now I’m calling you names. You just acted like a stupid fucking conservative. Get a clue and a shade of nuance and stop making enemies with liberals. Maybe brush up on the past 4-5 decades of American political history before saying half that shit. You know what republicans do? Knee jerk themselves into irrelevance.
because not doing enough has millions of definitions wereas the voters have to live with bush over gore or reagan over carter or trump over hilary. real progress is not going to happen if the right canidate can win regularly over the left canidate. that tells them to be more right. if it was impossible to win when more right in an election then the lesson is be more left.