It’s much too late for “the media” to fix this issue.
The right wing is a fascist cult. And they are popular because they are the only people promising to fix things. It doesn’t matter that they don’t mean it. It doesn’t matter that they don’t have a plan. It doesn’t matter that their only tactic is to attack people and minorities.
People in this country are in CRISIS. Healthcare crisis. Student debt crisis. Housing crisis. Income inequality crisis. Childcare crisis.
For 40 years Republicans have been making it worse, and Democrats have been… Making it slightly less worse. But no Democrat in modern times has actually acknowledged that we are in CRISIS. Hillary promised “incremental change”. Biden said “nothing will fundamentally change”. These people simple do not understand the catastrophic nature of our reality.
If we want to fix things, we need a political revolution. Bernie Sanders was offering all the same salvation that Trump was, only Bernie actually had a platform and a path.
Right now the only thing holding our country from collapse is that there is JUST enough of an anti-fascist vote that it gives us a fighting chance. But NO ONE is voting FOR Biden. We’re all voting AGAINST Trump, and against the anti-choice supreme Court.
We need a left-wing Democrat that we can actually get excited about. One who has plans and vision that meet the urgency of the situation.
Democratic Boomers have stopped us from getting that type of candidate. And now that we have an incumbent president, we aren’t even having the conversation this year.
The only way to turn this election into a sure thing for the Democrats is for Joe Biden to start announcing SERIOUS policies that recognize gravity of our situation.
The problem is Biden can’t do anything more than what he is doing. He’s already lost fights for some of his bigger proposals. That was with a majority Democrat senate and house. We don’t have that anymore. You can thank Senate Republicans and Joe Manchin for that. Biden has probably been the most progressive president in decades.
Do I wish it was different? Absolutely. I was a campaign donor for Bernie. What I think is even worse than Biden getting a second term is the very real chance Kamala could be the next president. A former attorney general… Sadly, both of these outcomes are still leagues better than the alternative.
He can never achieve anything great if he doesn’t even TRY. And when you START negotiations by asking for the mediocre, you end up with something LESS than mediocre.
The problem is that your using a very, very low bar. Largest overhaul of something that’s been neglected for decades is not actually saying much at all.
He didn’t even PROPOSE anything that would end our healthcare crisis, housing crisis, student debt crisis, etc.
He didn’t even PROPOSE anything that would end our healthcare crisis, housing crisis, student debt crisis, etc.
These are not easy problems that can be solved in one bill. I appreciate the passion, but if you only go for all or nothing, you’ll end up with nothing. He barely got the infrastructure bill through and you think he could have asked for solving the housing crisis?
That wasn’t able to pass with a Democrat controlled house, senate, and white house
Student debt could be erased with one bill.
They couldn’t even get an executive order for $10,000 to stick, and they only tried the executive order because they couldn’t pass it with a democratic controlled house, debate, and white house
There’s no mystery about how to solve them.
For those two examples, you’re right. And they have been attempted and failed. That’s not Biden’s fault. Again, blame the Republicans and Joe Manchin.
You said one bill can’t fix these things. One bill absolutely can.
You’re right. Of your two examples I was wrong. Originally I was more thinking you were talking about the much larger problems like housing crisis, income inequality, climate change… You know, the other things you mentioned before you cherry picked yourself.
Then you changed your argument to “well, we can’t last those bills!” … Lol
What? We can’t last those bills? What was that supposed to mean? Anyway, what I actually said is that we did try the first one with Obama and that’s how we ended up with Obamacare. The second one you wish Biden would do is literally something he did try to do. He also passed the largest infrastructure and jobs bill since FDR. Is he perfect? Far from it. But you’re ignoring a lot of good stuff he did do.
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