Just because we aren’t going along with the current R talking point of blaming Biden for something that is truly out of his control doesn’t mean we are blind to his faults. Don’t be swayed by simplistic R talking points about inflation. Ask yourself-what would they do to combat inflation-a global problem? I haven’t heard anything out of them about that.
I don’t mind criticism and there are things Biden is doing that I’m not totally okay with. BUT, here’s the thing: compared to the current shirt show that is the Republican Party, we are in good hands.
CPAC is currently happening in Hungary, where Orban is ramping up to be another Putin. Republicans have a very real extremism problem - they are being ruled by their extremists currently. The moderate wing of the R party has been neutered. I hope they get their act together, but I will be skeptical until I see it. It seems to me to be getting worse instead of better.
Rs want to regulate speech in the classroom, they want to regulate speech of corporations, how they conduct their employee orientations. Some Rs in Georgia are objecting to a new plant to manufacture electric vehicles because the company is “woke”.Perdue is deriding a plant that will bring 7,500 good jobs to Georgia because he doesn’t like the company’s speech on diversity and inclusion. (Hint: those are actually good things.)
Trump is really pushing for candidates who are willing to lie openly about election/voter fraud and willing to take the vote out of the hands of the voters if the result isn’t to their liking. This wouldn’t be a democracy anymore if he gets his way.
They are responsible for doing away with Roe, even to the point there will be no exceptions for rape, incest or the life of the woman. There is almost no aspect of life they don’t want to regulate today - R is no longer the party of small government - unless we are talking benefits for common people. Those they don’t care for.
Rick Scott is pushing a tax plan to raise taxes on everyone (except the wealthy) -even the most disadvantaged, while sunsetting Medicare, Social Security and Medicaid-and offering nothing in replacement. The Trump tax plan did a lot of harm-it permanently lowered taxes on the wealthy while offering an illusion of a temporary tax break for the lower and middle classes. The wealth gap is a significant problem in this country.
Rs consistently vote against helping ordinary people: they have voted against capping the cost of insulin, voted against allowing Medicare to negotiate drug prices, voted against extending the child care tax credit, voted against repairing the infrastructure. I don’t trust them for a minute to do anything to help real people.
Maybe that is why there have been 2-3 recent generic Congressional polls showing that more people would prefer to have a Democratic Congress member than a Republican one?
I am actually a bit more optimistic these days about Democrats keeping the Senate and maybe even the House. Who knows?
Indeed. I don't see too many people here praising Biden. More like... the only other alternative was Trump.
You see me.
What?
Fine.
Sorry for being a bit snappish there. Wasn't really directed at you so much as it was frustration in general with how dialogue about pretty normal things, like taking diseases seriously, gets polarised.
I wasn’t in the United States during SARS, was it as politicized as the diseases today are?
That’s says more about us (as a voting populace) than it does about the candidates.
I'm on board with that -- it might help fix the major issue with party primaries where a 30% candidate ultimately wins the day despite the fact 70% of the primary voters preferred someone else. That says, I think this country's form of government is structurally broken beyond repair.
Inflation is transitory, Wu-Tang is forever, or is it Inflation is forever, Wu-Tang is transitory? These days life imitates art so much, that it is hard to tell where earth ends, and heaven begins.
Agreed. Even if it is not the fault of Biden and his administration....the Democratic Party will get the blame anyway. The voters need an outlet/method to let everyone know they are not happy.
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