Yeah, why you vote even if you don’t particularly like Biden…

F that electoral college btw.

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    6 months ago

    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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      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.

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        6 months ago

        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

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      It’s not that Biden hasn’t done enough, he’s done quite a bit to reverse the slide Trump put us in.

      The problem is that the things he’s done aren’t where your average voter can see them. The big Infrastructure deal is largely invisible to your day to day voter.

      I still see $6 gallons of milk at WalMart. My gas is still $5 a gallon (my fault for needing Supreme), Biden has done NOTHING to address these basic pocketbook issues and when he does hear the complaint, he discounts it, saying instead “the economy is great!”

      https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/06/politics/the-us-economy-is-doing-well-president-biden-wants-to-know-why-so-many-americans-are-still-feeling-bad/index.html

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        he discounts it, saying instead “the economy is great!”

        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.