A good in-depth discussion of media bias in political reporting, or why is it that Biden voters are encouraged to understand an empathize with Trump voters but Trump voters are never asked to understand Biden voters?
A good in-depth discussion of media bias in political reporting, or why is it that Biden voters are encouraged to understand an empathize with Trump voters but Trump voters are never asked to understand Biden voters?
I voted for Biden as the least worst of the only two bad options, as I have in every general election I have participated in in both Congressional and Presidential races.
I’ve only had the opportunity to vote for politicians I actually have confidence in the ability to govern for the benefit of the citizenry in primaries, and I could first vote in 2004.
I’m almost certain I will die without ever having the opportunity to vote for anything less than a proud crony capitalism sycophant in a general election.
We’re fucked with our Neoliberals or fascists. They differ on social policy, but take the same orders from the same masters on economic policy that informs and exacerbates social issues. It just feels more compassionate for me to vote for our shithole to decline slightly slower under the Neoliberals, but the destination is the same. We the people are not permitted a voice when it comes to reigning in our dystopian rigged crony capitalist economic system.
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/18/the-wealthiest-10percent-of-americans-own-a-record-89percent-of-all-us-stocks.html
Until this madness of inequity is addressed, and the owners make sure that it won’t be, it’s all jist rearranging deck chairs.
I believed in Obama when I voted for him. I was sorely disappointed when he continued The Patriot Act, among other things. He was still world’s better than his predecessor though.
He meant well, and I acknowledge that. But he was and is a fervent institutionalist that doesn’t entertain the notion that our Constitutional framework is failing or has failed. He’s a true believer, which is why he spent all of his political capital and almost both of his terms trying to appease his proudly intransigent opposition, trying to play an honorable game by honorable rules that had been abandoned long before he became a Senator.
I think this is where Biden’s decades of congressional experience shows. He does the same bipartisan dog-and-pony show that Obama did, but Biden has been more effective at actually getting legislation passed.
Experience is more valuable, but less flash than Hope. I Guarantee if we sat through a Bernie Sanders Presidency you’d have supporters upset that he didn’t do anything he said he’d do. These people aren’t elected to be dictator. People need to agree and compromise. It bothers me how like minded the far sides of each party are in the notion that compromise is a dirty word.
I don’t have any evidence for this but purely speculation on my part: racism can explain a good amount of that. Biden has in the 90s voted for “tough on crime bills”, he is the definition of political establishment, and is a white man from Wilmington. Obama definitely is not textbook underpriveleged but he doesn’t have those points that biden does
He was President during Occupy and helped throw wet towels.
and that’s all you’re ever going to get w this system; let it fail.
No, I’m going to get progress over regression. I’m not going to blow up the lives of myself and the next generation because it’s not perfect. What a shit take.