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The question might as well be "Why did you vote republican?" and nothing else would change. Not even the people responding.
the democrats did nothing my bills have tripled over the last few years and my pay is not even close to keeping up, republicans will drive civil discourse and there will be riots, that's the only way anything will change
I despise Biden for a myriad of reasons, but this is horseshit.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_policy_of_the_Joe_Biden_administration
They did do shit. It's not even the bare fucking minimum, but it is something. And we're about to get a giant backslide thanks to the GOP/Trump.
And if Biden and Harris had acknowledged that the recovery they managed hadn't really worked for the working classes and that there was more work to do then they'd likely have won. But they didn't. They took a victory lap while we have record levels of homelessness and food insecurity. And then they doubled down on that victory lap during the campaign.
You can throw up as many links to bills as you want. The truth is they badly misread the economic situation under the top line data.
Yes, hence why I despise them among other reasons. But it's utter bullshit to say they did nothing.
In reality, the Biden administration was able to curb inflation significantly, which had a positive effects not just for people in the US.
We should also keep in mind that so many economic factors and developments happen regardless of who is in power.
I see these headlines all the time, and yet my lived experience is that rent and groceries have continued to get more expensive.
Don't get me wrong, I voted Harris, I'm just tired of hearing how great the economy is doing when everyone I know is struggling more than ever
There has been a global cost of living crisis yet somehow the right has managed to convince people that its the current governments fault.
Just because things didn't go as bad as they could have doesn't mean there aren't problems, such as with the cost of living. But perhaps more importantly - reality and perceptions can diverge a lot.
The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..
And this is particularly true in the digital era. People live in the same material reality but in seperate, parallel realities in their heads. In the digital age, white became black for many, and vice versa.
Rightists used to say "facts don't care about your feelings". They had it mixed up - its our feelings that don't care about facts. Our perceived realities are not based on facts, regardless of how rational and self-important we (humans) think we are. They're based on feelings and complexes.
Not trying to defend the democrats, but what did the republicans, the trump presidency, do for you? Did your burden from bills lessen? Did your pay rise? How was the discourse? What changed because of the riots?
I know nothing of you and your struggles, but chances are you gained nothing during that time. Am I wrong?
Democrats tried to stop price gouging. Republicans blocked it. Democrats tried to raise minimum wage. Republicans blocked it. Democrats tried to forgive school loans much like the PPP loans to rich corporations [and grifters] were forgiven, but Republicans blocked it.
Congrats on blaming the wrong people for things not getting done.
It's so weird that when Republicans are the majority, they get everything they want, when Republicans are in the minority, they still get everything that they want. It's almost like Democrats are completely either inept in governing or their ratchet effect is allowing Republicans to get everything that they want.
While I agree that Democrats did more that anyone gives them credit for, part of that is they are on average just bad at talking about their wins.
Also, as far as student loans go I'm still mad about that because the way they tried to forgive them seemed designed to get blocked. By means testing it and having a while process rather than just "all government loans from the dept. of ed are forgiven" it gave republicans the ability to stall it and then block.
If he'd just done everything at once with no process then it would be done, or at least too far along for Republicans do do much but draw attention to it. If they succeeded in blocking it then people would be furious.
Instead, only certain circles even knew about the loan forgiveness, but I never expected it to actually go though because of all the means testing, because corporate Democrats do stuff like that all the time. when it comes to the economy, like Biden "reversing" some of the Trump tax cuts on corporations... to way under what it was before Trump got in the first time.
They talk about their wins all the time. What they don't have is an entire propoganda machine like Republicans have spamming a false version of reality. When even the non strictly right wing shilling [but corporate aligned] media is ignoring it all and lending legitimacy to the right wing insanity, what do you expect to happen?
This country is filled with easily fooled morons with zero media literacy [and often a 6th grade or lower reading level] who believe whatever they're told
Accelerationist Theory just means a bunch of people are going to suffer and die. Society might change, but is far more likely to get worse for everyone.
This is exactly how fascism gains power.