• @[email protected]
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    142 months ago

    Thinking back to 2019 iircc the only Democrat candidate of the ±15 that was more conservative than Biden/Harris was Bloomberg. -I guess you could also argue Gabbard but she opted to go a different direction altogether. Regardless, a lot of Democrat voters seem to be projecting their values onto Biden without evaluating him as he is and always has been. He’s never been particularly progressive.

    • @[email protected]
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      32 months ago

      People forget that Biden was paired with Obama because Obama was seen as “too liberal” for “mainstream Democrats”. Biden was supposed to be a “correction” for Obama’s crazy ideas like the ACA (that was actually originally pushed for by, wait for it, Ronald fucking Reagan. The only difference was that Reagan didn’t propose any kind of public option, but that was the first thing Democrats killed in the name of “compromise”)

      • @njm1314
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        22 months ago

        Yet Biden has been way more liberal than Obama.

          • @njm1314
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            12 months ago

            He has. By literally every measure.

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              02 months ago

              Ok. I’ll let you believe what you want to I guess. Evidently Obama actively supported multiple genocides instead of passively supporting one.

              • @njm1314
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                12 months ago

                Yes, that is also true. Glad you’re catching up.