The real takeaway is that the president isn’t a king and needs the other branches of government to achieve meaningful change. Another reason local engagement is so important to build a coalition that actually can accomplish these promises and not actively sabotage the attempts.
Anyone that expected Biden to accomplish everything or even most of his proposed agenda has a poor understanding of US politics.
it’s so easy, I can just go back and watch the section of the contrapoints vooooooooting video from 2020 where she makes a giant list of good things Biden would do and laugh as literally none of them actually happened
It’s depressing to see people fall for the same carrot-stick nonsense year after year. An administration could arguably accomplish one major reform during a single term, even if it tanked their career. There are empowerments the president can use to do this (libs will often use you personally not being able to detail each legal subversion necessary as proof the acting president actually cannot do what they campaigned on, however this is a coping mechanism, as they refuse to believe that the person they voted for can be ideologically bad).
If Biden actually cared about anything he campaigned on, even if it were just one thing he was the most passionate about, he could have worked over the past three years to execute a plan to make it happen, even if it led to his impeachment. But he hasn’t, because he doesn’t, because the system he dedicated his career to uphold is working as intended.
I have pressed libs on these things and they say that Biden has made “serious progress towards these goals” and “he’ll surely accomplish them in his second term.”
Minimum wage: One (1) half-assed attempt at raising it followed by a collective shrug-outta-hecks from the entire Democratic party
Medicare: Costs slightly lowered from “ludicrously expensive” to “outrageously expensive.” Apparently raised the Medicare tax rate on incomes over $400,000 by a whole 1.2%. Maybe not nothing, but still tiny ass changes that don’t fundamentally fix a broken system, and still aren’t single player, universal healthcare. You know, the kind of system that everybody else has that has been proven to work, is cheaper, and doesn’t plunge people into six figures of debt for the rest of their (and their next of kin’s) lives.
Nah, I’m sick of trying to be overly reasonable about this garbage schtick liberal politicians enable and engage in
Liberal politicians always do this, instead of enacting something that would be massively popular and genuinely good, they do the most pathetically small thing they can think of to modify the existing structure, like increasing the existing tax on the top .1% by 1.2%. Then you get smug bootlickers who quote the White House website press release that it increased revenues by 50 million (for a program with a 500 billion dollar budget), while also explaining at you that it was actually massively helpful and wonderful for everyone, and if you don’t understand that you’re a moron and a conservative parasite. Or they try and explain that you don’t understand the government, as if they were the only genius who had a grade school civics class.
It is nothing but piss in the wind and I refuse to consider it otherwise
It really was the tipping point for me, solidified that yes, there really is only one party in the West (the capitalist party) and also that even a pandemic that threatens to kill and/or cripple most of the population will be met with the same half-assed non-solution as climate change. There is nothing that will make them admit that capitalism is a suicide deal. No end to their delusion. They’re a cult. There is no reasoning with a beast like that, so it solidified for me that the only way out is revolution.
I really feel like the left should have made a bigger deal about the shadow app shit in the 2020 primaries, I feel like the whole “we won’t make a scene if Bernie loses” might have been exactly what the Dems wanted.
It didn’t make me lose faith in humanity, though, it just confirmed without a doubt that, yes, the tankies were right after all.
Especially with Biden, where he probably didn’t know about half the stuff on his website. It was just there so that the media could point at it and say: “Not only does Biden have a plan for healthcare as well, but his plan is worse, which makes it actually better because it is more realistic”.
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