It’s a bit like Brandolini’s law, recovering from a right wing government takes way more energy and sacrifice than the energy and sacrifice needed by the right wing government to destroy everything.
Except its a lot more complicated than just claiming Biden was “recovering from a right wing government” or that Biden gave “energy and sacrifice”. Biden went againt the majority of this country and aided and abetted crimes against humanity. He also did some other odious stuff. Lets stop pretending the dem leadership didnt massively shit the bed for 4 years. And then Harris, amidst rock bottom awful polling about Biden’s dumb policies, said she couldnt think of a isngle thing she’d change, to a whole country who wanted change. Thats not even bringing up his out of touch economic messaging and his killing of the defund and reallocate movement.
Its high time we stop lying to ourselves about what happened, or we’re even more thoroughly doomed than we already are.
Cool story bro, I never mentioned Biden
ah I see, you are saying Biden was also a right wing government. I see. I usually try to think of the dems as the left, but thats not accurate. My bad.
It’s never been like what’s happening now though, not even close. They’re breaking this cycle in the worst way. Plus dems weren’t just slow. They’re straight up comatose and have their own fair share of grifters further hindering any effective counter measures.
joe biden made a huge deal about how america had made a great recovery (and honestly kudos to him that he inherited the worst possible situation and made it better) but there was something incredibly tone deaf about acting like the problem was fully fixed and everything was going great. i think he would have been better off saying “i’ve done this much with a narrow majority. i want to do more to help you, the person making less than $238k, live comfortably, but for that i need more support from congress and more time”
saying everything was going great just told those people struggling it was never going to get better for them. obviously falling for trump is… embarrassing since he’s who made everything so awful in the first place (well not the first place. that honor goes to the establishment of a political and economic hierarchy 12k years ago), but still, joe biden opened a door for trump to come back. he opened it a little with his messaging, and opened it all the way by not doing anything to ensure any kind of consequences for doing a coup. what the fuck was everyone waiting around for? the gathering of evidence? why? we all saw it
That and the people voting for Trump had no fucking memory of how bad it was…
“We were better under Trump!”
“Really? Not knowing where your next roll of toilet paper was coming from was ‘better’?”
The problem was, neither Harris nor Biden encountered having to buy black market toilet paper out of the back of a car in a parking lot so they were unable to use that in their campaigns.
he opened it a little with his messaging, and opened it all the way by not doing anything to ensure any kind of consequences for doing a coup.
Also not going after price gouging. That and letting Trump go are the two big mistakes of his administration.
and not listening to his largely pacifist base that they weren’t fans of genocide
The anti Israel part of the Democratic party is a tiny vocal fringe.
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It’s missing the third dimension. It may look like a circle, but it’s actually spiraling downwards.
America has taken it’s post WW2 golden age economic boom and squandered it for unbelievably greedy short termed gains for a miniscule class of people.
My friend likes to say China is playing civ while America is shooting itself in the foot.
