I think most people are so turned off by politics that they can’t be bothered to listen to actual policy, or so buried in ‘both sides are owned by corps’ propaganda that they assume policy changes are always harmful. I doubt that most of the people polling negative on Biden could name a specific policy or action that they disagree with. I mean, I would also like to see a President born in the last half of the previous century, but if the biggest criticism is, “he’s old,” then he must be doing alright. It’s an easy criticism to understand and impossible to refute without resorting to ‘so is the other guy.’
Alot of what I hear is people complaining he didn’t meet his promises. They ignore the fact that it wasn’t for lack of trying. The system is broke we have to try and fix it. And by broke I mean for the people.
Alot of what I hear is people complaining he didn’t meet his promises. They ignore the fact that it wasn’t for lack of trying
I don’t think any president has ever delivered on more than a handful of their campaign promises. And even then, those outcomes are stretching the accomplish a LONG way to meet the “promise”.
The biggest win in a long time is probably Obama and the ACA, and that took a LOT and even that, though infinitely better than what it replaced, wasn’t really what he promised us.
Meanwhile, Trump is working on his replacement for the ACA, it’ll be available in a couple weeks.
That’s because those aren’t campaign promises so much as campaign agendas and the misnomer disillusions people, which is the original intent of creating the misnomer.
I pretty much agree, with everything in this thread, but it doesn’t help that presidential candidates themselves often use the words “I promise” or “I will” lol
Sure, he’s clearly orders of magnitude better than anyone the GOP will run and yes, he has pushed decent enough policy.
But around the world, I think people are looking at their left-wing parties and thinking that they’re not nearly enough.
“Bidenomics” seems to just be “neoliberalism with a hint of shame”. It’s certainly better than “neoliberalism and we’d feed you into a woodchipper if the spreadsheet said it would be profitable” but fuck, the world is burning.
Where is the trillion dollars we spent on war now that we need it to fight literal extinction? What are we going to do when the crops fail and the robots take our jobs?Why are there Nazis with political power and private prisons paying inmates pennies? Why are our electronics made by a brutal dictatorship and why is our chocolate made by child slaves?
Why don’t we have ranked choice voting so we can find people to actually fix things, instead of offering us bigger crumbs?
Why don’t we have ranked choice voting so we can find people to actually fix things, instead of offering us bigger crumbs?
I don’t think that would really fix anything. I mean, it’s a good idea, and you can paint a few rosy scenarios where a great 3rd party candidate fails because none of their supporters are willing to ‘waste’ their vote. But the 3rd parties put up people like Jill Stein or Cynthia McKinney. They’re not big enough or organized enough to recruit good candidates, let alone voters.
Even if they could win elections, the congressional rules more-or-less force 3rd parties to caucus with one of the main 2, where they have no power, because they don’t raise funds or campaign for the party.
Good candidates should be challenging poor candidates at the primary stage. GOP candidates seem to live in constant fear of primary challenges from far-right nutjobs, but I rarely hear about progressive challengers on the Dem side, AOC and Cori Bush notwithstanding.
Ranked choice voting also can only be implemented by the states. The federal government can’t do that, so there’s literally nothing Biden can do except say “we should do ranked choice voting.” But I also don’t think he needs to! Multiple states are already implementing it. We are well under way with the experiment.
Why are our electronics made by a brutal dictatorship and why is our chocolate made by child slaves?
I can’t speak to chocolate and why we don’t do more at home, obviously besides cost, but the same countries you are holding up as examples are buying the exact same electronics and chips from the exact same countries we are.
The federal government cannot tell states how to conduct their elections, Biden has no control there. Besides, a few states are currently implementing ranked choice voting. It’s literally happening lol.
I keep seeing people repeating the same things about ranked choice voting, but I don’t think they’ve taken even 30 seconds to read a Wikipedia article about it. The experiment is happening right now and undoubtedly we will see other states adopt it.
I think most people are so turned off by politics that they can’t be bothered to listen to actual policy, or so buried in ‘both sides are owned by corps’ propaganda that they assume policy changes are always harmful. I doubt that most of the people polling negative on Biden could name a specific policy or action that they disagree with. I mean, I would also like to see a President born in the last half of the previous century, but if the biggest criticism is, “he’s old,” then he must be doing alright. It’s an easy criticism to understand and impossible to refute without resorting to ‘so is the other guy.’
Alot of what I hear is people complaining he didn’t meet his promises. They ignore the fact that it wasn’t for lack of trying. The system is broke we have to try and fix it. And by broke I mean for the people.
I don’t think any president has ever delivered on more than a handful of their campaign promises. And even then, those outcomes are stretching the accomplish a LONG way to meet the “promise”.
The biggest win in a long time is probably Obama and the ACA, and that took a LOT and even that, though infinitely better than what it replaced, wasn’t really what he promised us.
Meanwhile, Trump is working on his replacement for the ACA, it’ll be available in a couple weeks.
That’s because those aren’t campaign promises so much as campaign agendas and the misnomer disillusions people, which is the original intent of creating the misnomer.
I pretty much agree, with everything in this thread, but it doesn’t help that presidential candidates themselves often use the words “I promise” or “I will” lol
Sure, he’s clearly orders of magnitude better than anyone the GOP will run and yes, he has pushed decent enough policy.
But around the world, I think people are looking at their left-wing parties and thinking that they’re not nearly enough.
“Bidenomics” seems to just be “neoliberalism with a hint of shame”. It’s certainly better than “neoliberalism and we’d feed you into a woodchipper if the spreadsheet said it would be profitable” but fuck, the world is burning.
Where is the trillion dollars we spent on war now that we need it to fight literal extinction? What are we going to do when the crops fail and the robots take our jobs?Why are there Nazis with political power and private prisons paying inmates pennies? Why are our electronics made by a brutal dictatorship and why is our chocolate made by child slaves?
Why don’t we have ranked choice voting so we can find people to actually fix things, instead of offering us bigger crumbs?
Build back better has like half a trillion dollars for ‘green’ energy
The CHIPS act has already gotten commitments for 50 semiconductor projects in the US https://www.semiconductors.org/the-chips-act-has-already-sparked-200-billion-in-private-investments-for-u-s-semiconductor-production/
I don’t think that would really fix anything. I mean, it’s a good idea, and you can paint a few rosy scenarios where a great 3rd party candidate fails because none of their supporters are willing to ‘waste’ their vote. But the 3rd parties put up people like Jill Stein or Cynthia McKinney. They’re not big enough or organized enough to recruit good candidates, let alone voters.
Even if they could win elections, the congressional rules more-or-less force 3rd parties to caucus with one of the main 2, where they have no power, because they don’t raise funds or campaign for the party.
Good candidates should be challenging poor candidates at the primary stage. GOP candidates seem to live in constant fear of primary challenges from far-right nutjobs, but I rarely hear about progressive challengers on the Dem side, AOC and Cori Bush notwithstanding.
Ranked choice voting also can only be implemented by the states. The federal government can’t do that, so there’s literally nothing Biden can do except say “we should do ranked choice voting.” But I also don’t think he needs to! Multiple states are already implementing it. We are well under way with the experiment.
I can’t speak to chocolate and why we don’t do more at home, obviously besides cost, but the same countries you are holding up as examples are buying the exact same electronics and chips from the exact same countries we are.
The federal government cannot tell states how to conduct their elections, Biden has no control there. Besides, a few states are currently implementing ranked choice voting. It’s literally happening lol.
I keep seeing people repeating the same things about ranked choice voting, but I don’t think they’ve taken even 30 seconds to read a Wikipedia article about it. The experiment is happening right now and undoubtedly we will see other states adopt it.