#5 | POSTED BY CENSORED AT 2024-03-20 07:29 AM | REPLY | FLAG
That is neither stupidity, nor "disastrous."
It's telling the DNC to wake up and start serving their constituents again, because not all of us will continue to settle for the barely lesser of two evils, and they are not entitled to our votes - they need to earn them.
Why is Biden so unpopular?
Well above all else - it's not the economy, "it's the inflation stupid."
Second, it's hard to enthuse an electorate for a guy that's basically Trump lite - especially with the aforementioned inflation.
I mean - sexual predator? It's not helpful when your own VP previously said they believe your accusers.
Racist? Biden was against busing, mixed race schools, and remains responsible for more black men in prison than anywhere else on the planet. Anyone familiar with the Constitution will know - that's just legalized modern slavery.
Classified documents? What Trump did was worse - what Biden did was still idiotic.
Lies? They're both pathological self-aggrandizing liars.
Immigration? Trump is actually better. Sorry, I hearken back to the Bill Clinton take that we don't need undocumented people driving down wages on an already struggling working class, and I'm an economic hard leftist of the type that says if you can't pay a fair living wage for a job - the type that would attract US workers to it - you don't deserve to stay in business. Remember when that used to be a common leftist take?
And on and on. They are in every way comparable. It always comes out to a matter of degree. The definition of "lesser evil." Add on a personal take that Biden is just really incompetent - either the right thing, wrong time, or just half-assing what really needs done. Obama was right about him. Infrastructure? Great idea. Maybe don't pass a bill costing over a trillion dollars when we're in the throws of horrible inflation. Student loan forgiveness? A bandaid on a bullet wound. Maybe nationalize colleges and universities, offering higher education the same way we do k-12 and open to everyone instead of rewarding predatory lenders with instant payouts and letting education costs continue to spiral out of control multiple times the rate of inflation. EV mandate? I'll be the first to scream we have to get serious about climate - but maybe we should have worried about the power grid that can't even handle everyone turning on their air conditioners at once in numerous states and the charging stations first. Israel? Great job on that "come to Jesus" with Netanyahu lol. Really fixed the whole genocide issue.
Messaging is an issue of course - but some of it isn't a lack of getting the message out - it's sending the wrong message. Cumulative wage gains are not even close to catching up to cumulative inflation. May not be for years, and wage gains are even faltering now. While the lower classes face mounting credit card debt, record vehicle repossessions, unaffordable housing, Biden totes the stock market and gets angry that the news is not reporting how good it is. The news is. And it's causing backlash. Maybe less "the economy is the best in the world" (for the one percent) and more "I feel your pain."
Don't take this wrong. I probably will vote Biden. And on virtually all but one of those issues, he is better than Trump. That's not where you should be setting the bar. The only difference enough to possibly warrant it is J6. But you want to know why Biden is so unpopular? Because no one voted for him, and most likely no one ever will. They just voted against Trump. And that's not highly motivating.
Biden should have kept to his word about only being a transitional president.
