https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/sep/15/biden-economy-bidenomics-poll-republicans-democrats-independents
Despite a strong economy, an exclusive Guardian poll shows mistrust in media and government means disbelief in both parties
Here is the slimmest majority with 50 senators; two of those are republicans in sheep's clothing. Oh, also you lose house majority 2 years in.
You can't fix an entire system with that? Fuck you Biden.
Biden should be raging from the bully pulpit about Congress fucking the American people over. But he isn't, and he helped install the current status quo. Obama got a pass because he wasn't in federal office in the 90's swinging a wrecking ball into the safety net and we could believe he was silently trying to work on things. Biden was and he hasn't repudiated any of the things that actually fuck us peons over. And yet we'll vote for him in 2024 because the GOP is incapable of meeting the basic standard of upholding democratic elections. I've watched the Democrats tell me they're going to fix the basic problems of the economy for 30 years. Only for them to turn around and line the pockets of the rich and tell us that it will somehow help us. Every time they come up with some new plan to help us it's the same two things. Either they hand the money to a rich person who swears they'll distribute it and totally not just buy a new yacht; or it's a once a year tax credit that sounds big because it's a lump sum but in reality comes out to about 150 dollars a month at most.
Like I said, for now the GOP's idiocy is going to hold the line for the Dems but at some point people are just going to stop engaging with the system.
I agree with a lot of things you said. But, you are not judging this term by this term, but by the last 30 years. You have little bit of merit to blame Biden for his past mistakes, but you fail to tell what he could have done differently. The thing that strikes me the most is how you view the democrats of the last 30 years as a singular entity. Democrats are not a monarchy or a cult. We will never figure out how to elect better people with that outlook.
They aren't monolithic, but the outcome is the same none the less. And you're right that we need to elect better people within the party. I refuse to give the party credit for the progressive wing until the outcome changes though.
Even a simple "hey, I know things are rough right now but were working on it" from the White House would be enough for me, but these doublespeak puff-pieces they keep putting out are ridiculous.
Things are better? No the fuck they're not and their inflation calculators purposefully ignore things like groceries, gas, or rent, which have increased nearly 50% in the past 12 months across the country. Just admit shit's fucked but were working on a solution, but, in the words of a old video game reviewer, don't piss on my back and tell me it's raining.