It's been three years since Biden's inauguration and they've done nothing to incentivize people to vote for him a second time.
I don't get how libs can tolerate being taken for granted like this. They're not being mature or practical - they're accepting mistreatment by an establishment sworn to serve them.
Trump and his supporters aren't better, but at least he's telling them what they want to hear. He at least made sure to get checks out to people and had his signature stamped on them.
I dunno, at least there's a strategy there. And Biden has had four fucking years and he's done nothing to get people motivated to vote or even register to vote. Not even going into his participation in genocide, it's just a lack of strategy to the point of self-sabotage.
And the entire Democratic party is complicit in all of it. It's like they want to lose, because all I'm hearing are about how bad trump is/was. And it's like, I was fucking there. And after three years, all they can offer is to give him a verbal reprimand and coverage on every major news network, speech, and social media posting.
It's just mind-blowing to think of the wasted time and energy on the part of the US political system.
The majority of Americans understanding of how politics impacts their lives in fundamentally vibes based. Their perception of material reality will literally warp from "America is doing great" to "America is not doing great" based off of their political color and the political color of the politician in power.
I have had Trump supporters flat out tell me the world was amazing when Trump was president and that now biden is president there are gangs of ISIS-MSG-13 are razing the countryside and America is 100% communist, and vise versa when it's some shitlib.
Like the most direct impact of political actions have had that Americans really have actually materially felt is the actions of the trade war, covid, and the artificial inflation of necessary commodities.
Liberals will cry and list a thousand things that Biden accomplished that don’t matter. And let’s say they do matter. Who gives a shit? Your fetishized “””democracy””” is about THE PEOPLE. Their perception of your governance matters. It doesn’t matter if objectively you did good things for them. If THEY don’t see it, they won’t support you. It’s literally that easy.
Your job is to not only serve them but to make sure they fucking see the results materially with their eye balls. But instead they’ve opted to get angry and complain about their own voters being upset and how tankies are complaining about Palestine. Get a different fucking job if you’re too lazy to do party propaganda. Stupid fucks.
I didn’t know either until I came face to face with an aspiring “organizer” in the DNC network
These people are so fundamentally useless, and I am convinced that they only do what they do so they can feel good about following the rules (designed to prevent anything from changing)
It is really incredible. I would have never guessed in 2020 how far below my expectations the reality would be but it is truly remarkable. Literally as bad or worse than Trump in every measurable way. Just utterly deflating to the point where I feel genuinely bad for people who are still emotionally invested in the presidency. Especially young people, I remember being that naive still and it is a cold hard road to the truth.
Just like the Bourbons upon their restoration, the restored Democrats learned nothing and forgot nothing. They almost treat their right to votes and government as privileges granted by some secular divinity, more important than any currents of popular opinion.
Now I guess we wait to assess how cyclical their failing is this time around. Will it be different given the world we live in now is not the world as it was in 2017?
Four goddamn years to prepare and all they have is "let's relitigate 2020 (and relitigate 2016 again)". At this point I'm convinced they'd barely bother trying to step off the tracks to avoid a glacially slow moving train they spotted an hour ago.
Bringing up student loan debt and infrastructure is all I hear them say as far as his accomplishments go. At least they're the ones they're proudest of.
I remember how smug libs were when they were dangling that $2,000 carrot over everyone’s heads in 2020, saying things like “at least we know Biden won’t be vain enough to hold up the process just so the IRS can put his name on the check.”
Then we were shorted $600 (or more, if the clattering neoliberal machine deemed you unworthy of additional help during a pandemic) and that check came with an additional piece of paper with a long winded thing about where this money came from, concluding with “this [$1,400] fulfills a promise I made to you.” So on top of getting fleeced by these slimeballs and gaslit about how “600+1400=2000,” those of us who received our crumbs were treated to a full page ad where Biden congratulates himself for a job mediocrely done. I remember thinking, “surely this was an unnecessary waste of time and ink, and likely delayed the distribution of the checks” but of course because it wasn’t done by a it was fine, and there’s probably an obscure rule that required it so he’s just showing us how a real president is supposed to act, or something .
I have a turbolib friend that was needlessly combative with me when I brought up Joe’s long history of scumbaggery prior to even getting the nomination. I’ve been practicing for this year’s inevitable arguments, but I feel a lot more secure articulating my positions now that I’ve fully broken out of the lib cage.
I dunno, at least there’s a strategy there. And Biden has had four fucking years and he’s done nothing to get people motivated to vote or even register to vote. Not even going into his participation in genocide, it’s just a lack of strategy to the point of self-sabotage.
This is the basic gripe of Democrats the country over. The Democratic party absolutely sucks at between-election messaging. All of the great messaging campaigns that kept them relevant and positively viewed were all basically reactions to Republican fucks up. I mean, the House Freedom Caucus is actively trying to hand Democrats some good PR with their bullshit budget requests. Senate Republicans know it can come back to screw those up for reelection, too.
And what are the Democrats doing? Nothing? Releasing websites about abortion rights or some shit? Idk. The Democratic is really bad at the communications part of politics.
Somehow entire weeks have melted away and yet it feels like the longest three years of all time. Still can't believe his first term isn't far in the rear view
There's not a lot he can do, there's no more institutional capacity for anything that can benefit average people. Unless it's military, the money has to "come from" somewhere. That could be "taxes" but we know how this works by now...