He campaigned on a lot of stuff the actual left wants (people like those of us in this community), but has he implemented any of it? Not really.
Climate bill aimed at reducing emissions by 40% by 2030
$138 billion in student debt relief
Specific program to reunite families that were permanently separated under Trump-era immigration rules
Lowest unemployment in 20 years
Infrastructure act, CHIPS act, investment in fixing the working-people economy as opposed to just the Wall Street economy
Is it enough? Fuck no. I don't particularly like the Democrats and I hate that the quippy pretense that Biden's been doing a bad job is making me defend them. But saying he's been a shit president is just factually wrong, and arguing that overcoming stiff Republican resistance in order to deliver the above represents "bowing to the GOP on everything" is like bizarro-world levels of wrong.
What are you saying he campaigned on that he hasn't implemented? I'm sure there are some things yes, I'm happy to hear.
because people have bought into that propaganda of not believing a vote could count unless the Republicans or Democrats get it and you are especially in dissent if you want to vote for someone other than Biden
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I agree. Elections are about conning gullible and stupid people into thinking they have some say in what goes on. They don't. We're an oligarchy-kleptocracy and have been since at least the 1980s, if not earlier.
People think the primaries allow us to pick candidates, but do they really? Not IMO. How often do you see a random Joe or Jane from a middle of nowhere town of 200 people as one of the candidates? Hardly ever. And even if they were, would they ever get the nomination? Doubtful. The oligarchs pick the candidates for the primaries.
Even if someone honestly believes we have a democracy, we don't at least not when it comes to presidential elections, not IMO anyways. Those who vote are voting for electors, who is, in theory, supposed to then vote for the candidate the voters voted for, but they don't have to AFAIK (faithless electors). IMO democracy is direct, not indirect. I know there's representative democracy (indirect), which is what we have, in theory, but I don't agree that it's that democratic. Especially when the oligarchs get to pick who they want to run.
Electoral politics are a sham and you can’t vote out fascists and oligarchs. They will just change the rules if the election doesn't go the way they want. And yes, both Democrats & Republicans are fascists and run by oligarchs.
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