They should refuse to participate in a system that does not represent them or their needs. It’s not enough for Biden to say we are not trump when most of his policies are carried over from Trump or are variations of them. In 2020 they voted for Biden and got more of trump.
Let me ask you, how do you feel about the Patriot act? What about the no default student loans? What about the increase of incarcerations from a heighten war on drugs?
Why do you think voting for the guy who did all this just one more time is going to undo all of that when he spent his entire carrier catering to people even more right than the Democrats?
Lowest unemployment in 20-50 years depending on how you count
Wealth inequality going down for the first time in I have no idea how long
Actual urgent effort to address climate change for the first time in US history
15% minimum corporate tax, Amazon paying higher taxes than they ever have before by quite a large margin (which is what funded most of the above)
And, that all happened despite absolutely rabid resistance from the Republicans at every turn.
A lot of people are still suffering, which makes it hard to feel like anything is good – in particular, inflation is rising faster than wages at the top end of the scale, which makes it “feel” especially to people in the tech industry like the economy is still doing bad (which, it kind of is). However, wages for people who do housekeeping or manufacturing or etc are actually rising faster than inflation by quite a large margin – that’s incredibly unusual in the modern day even when inflation isn’t spiking, and it’s a direct result of some of Biden’s policies like strengthening the NLRB or spending billions and billions of dollars of Amazon’s money on domestic manufacturing.
The criticism of Biden over his criminal support for Israel is real and fair. Of course, he’s at least making some limp little noises about maybe giving Netanyahu a stern talking to if he exceeds his dead children quota, whereas Trump just wants to kill all the Palestinians and ban Muslims from the country and maybe start with Hispanics too.
The mythology that people got betrayed who voted for Biden is very explicit propaganda; it has absolutely no grounding in the reality of what happened.
To be fair - abortion was also a huge issue and Biden has made no progress on that point. It doesn’t help to deny his failures even if he has had quite a few successes (and it seems impossible that Biden could have actually addressed abortion rights in any meaningful way beyond what he did). That’s a bar he set for himself.
Are you sure that the unfolding abortion disaster in this country currently is what you want to pick to argue the “it doesn’t matter whether we elect Democrats or Republicans, because the outcome will be the same” thesis?
Think again. Are you sure? Because I’m happy to argue against that thesis if you’re sure you want to stick with it. I think probably you can imagine what my argument will be without me even needing to say it.
TBH I think I read “Biden has made no progress” and “It doesn’t help to deny his failures” and didn’t read in depth much beyond that. I think you’re right that it was unfair to assume; rereading it now, I just don’t really understand what they actually meant. But yeah maybe it was unfair to assume what I did about what they’re saying.
Like they say “it seems impossible that Biden could have actually addressed abortion rights in any meaningful way beyond what he did.” Okay, agreed… So is it still a failure of his that I’m not acknowledging?
I think it’s a very understandable failure from Biden as I personally don’t believe stuffing the Supreme Court would be a reasonable approach, additionally Biden couldn’t tell that Democrats would get swept in the midterms when he was elected.
That all said, Biden very much ran on abortion (in a “I’ll fix it” way - not just “Trump will ban it nationally”) so it is a promise he made that he couldn’t keep. Do I blame Biden for the shortfall? No. Do I think Biden shouldn’t have implied he’d reinstate abortion rights? Yes.
Anyways, come November I’m voting for Biden because otherwise Trump will absolutely, guaranteed, murder women through denying reasonable healthcare.
They should refuse to participate in a system that does not represent them or their needs. It’s not enough for Biden to say we are not trump when most of his policies are carried over from Trump or are variations of them. In 2020 they voted for Biden and got more of trump.
I’d like to know exactly what policies you’re referring to.
Let me ask you, how do you feel about the Patriot act? What about the no default student loans? What about the increase of incarcerations from a heighten war on drugs?
Why do you think voting for the guy who did all this just one more time is going to undo all of that when he spent his entire carrier catering to people even more right than the Democrats?
They are also ‘saving democracy’ by passing warrantless spying
Feels like a broken record at this point
In 2020 they voted for Biden and got:
And, that all happened despite absolutely rabid resistance from the Republicans at every turn.
A lot of people are still suffering, which makes it hard to feel like anything is good – in particular, inflation is rising faster than wages at the top end of the scale, which makes it “feel” especially to people in the tech industry like the economy is still doing bad (which, it kind of is). However, wages for people who do housekeeping or manufacturing or etc are actually rising faster than inflation by quite a large margin – that’s incredibly unusual in the modern day even when inflation isn’t spiking, and it’s a direct result of some of Biden’s policies like strengthening the NLRB or spending billions and billions of dollars of Amazon’s money on domestic manufacturing.
The criticism of Biden over his criminal support for Israel is real and fair. Of course, he’s at least making some limp little noises about maybe giving Netanyahu a stern talking to if he exceeds his dead children quota, whereas Trump just wants to kill all the Palestinians and ban Muslims from the country and maybe start with Hispanics too.
The mythology that people got betrayed who voted for Biden is very explicit propaganda; it has absolutely no grounding in the reality of what happened.
To be fair - abortion was also a huge issue and Biden has made no progress on that point. It doesn’t help to deny his failures even if he has had quite a few successes (and it seems impossible that Biden could have actually addressed abortion rights in any meaningful way beyond what he did). That’s a bar he set for himself.
Are you sure that the unfolding abortion disaster in this country currently is what you want to pick to argue the “it doesn’t matter whether we elect Democrats or Republicans, because the outcome will be the same” thesis?
Think again. Are you sure? Because I’m happy to argue against that thesis if you’re sure you want to stick with it. I think probably you can imagine what my argument will be without me even needing to say it.
I’m not sure how you got that out of what the guy wrote.
TBH I think I read “Biden has made no progress” and “It doesn’t help to deny his failures” and didn’t read in depth much beyond that. I think you’re right that it was unfair to assume; rereading it now, I just don’t really understand what they actually meant. But yeah maybe it was unfair to assume what I did about what they’re saying.
Like they say “it seems impossible that Biden could have actually addressed abortion rights in any meaningful way beyond what he did.” Okay, agreed… So is it still a failure of his that I’m not acknowledging?
I think it’s a very understandable failure from Biden as I personally don’t believe stuffing the Supreme Court would be a reasonable approach, additionally Biden couldn’t tell that Democrats would get swept in the midterms when he was elected.
That all said, Biden very much ran on abortion (in a “I’ll fix it” way - not just “Trump will ban it nationally”) so it is a promise he made that he couldn’t keep. Do I blame Biden for the shortfall? No. Do I think Biden shouldn’t have implied he’d reinstate abortion rights? Yes.
Anyways, come November I’m voting for Biden because otherwise Trump will absolutely, guaranteed, murder women through denying reasonable healthcare.