Considering my votes in the last three presidential primaries, said politico would have to be really fucking stupid to come to that conclusion which, okay, believable actually. The modern Democratic party has been insistent on learning the wrong lessons since their fuckheaded “Third Way” served up the working class to the Republicans on a silver platter.
In this regard, Biden has been the best most working class friendly President in my lifetime and not by a small amount either. Actually, a good bit longer than that. So, if this is why people aren't voting for Biden, then there is no reason for the Democratic Party to ever care about the working class, when they do, we apparently still punish them for it.
Not to say that I am happy with everything, just that Biden's economic policy has been quite the opposite of Clinton's abuse toward the poor. Biden's reserved support for Israel is indeed galling. But, it's still better than the alternative of Trump's fawning support for Israel and their genocide.
The Democratic Party has taken my vote for granted, they have apparently started believing that I and people like me will continue to compromise with them while they can freely move rightward and accede to Republican framing on important issues. I need to see some compromises from them.
Huh? To put this clearly: Biden is a good way to the left of Obama, Clinton, and, arguably, even Carter. If his support of unions and economic policy don't count as "compromises from them", then we are lost. To the degree that it is possible for a President to meet his promises unilaterally, Biden has done very very well. He forgave a great deal of existing student loan debt under his own power, his build back better plan gives us the working class more than they have received in a long time.
Biden could easily win back my vote if he did even one thing he ran on, like he could use that new immunity to literally go axe student loan debt at the source. I bet that would even bump his approval ratings, the photo-op alone would be historic. But he won’t.
Wat? Let's be honest here, that wouldn't work. At all. We know exactly what this court would have to say about that, indeed, they have already said it about the loans he
already forage. It turns out that isn't a core power of the Presidency quelle surprise. Not that that
has entirely stopped him; though
I'm sure the Supreme Court will get to that soon enough.
It is frustrating. Modern Democrats are not aligned with most of my values. They are still too corporate friendly, and stick with the old allies system (Israel, Saudi, etc.). The regulatory agencies have gotten weaker over the years. Honestly, I feel they only support social justice issues because those issues do not impact their corporate relationships. I also think some of their social justice has gotten too far without actually address the core issues. Letting criminals get off easy instead of solving the underlining issues of the society.
I feel like I am forced to vote Democrats because I do not want non-white, non-cis-male, non-Christian put into literally physical harm.
Now frustration I do get, after all moderate Democrats suck and Congress is chockablock full of them. But I also find it quite frustrating when people say "Modern Democrats" when they are really talking about people like Joe Manchin, who isn't even a Democrat anymore (though he is still caucusing with us, so we still control the Senate, for whatever small good that does). Realistically, when Congress is considered, the Democrats barely have enough votes to agree to take out the trash. This is why we have threads discussing things like the dumpster fire that is
Federal appropriations. And yet, people are mad at Biden because Marjorie Taylor Greene is an asshole and Joe Manchin is a strange conservative. It's like people don't understand how any of this shit works.
