Now, the world isn’t some perfect place, and there are people with very real struggles, but there’s a very clear partisan bias when you ask people this kind of question, and one that’s appeared in recent years.
There will always be a partisan bias on every issue.
The point is that you shouldn’t ignore the reality of how shitty this economy is for the people whose votes you want, and Dems seem perfectly content do that.
Are we looking at the same charts? Only one of them has an noticeable bias, and it’s bonkers extreme: almost 80% negative right up until a Republican is sworn in, then almost immediately skyrockets to nearly 100% positive, brief dip for Covid before going right back up, then immediately down to almost 100% negative immediately after a Democrat is sworn in. The economy doesn’t shift like that, that didn’t correspond to any actual economic metric. That sentiment is entirely based on bias.
Compare with the other chart: much more moderate, much more gradual, much more correlated to data. You can’t tell exactly when the president changed by looking at it, which makes sense because the economy doesn’t swing like that.
Yes, there’s always a partisan bias on every by issue, and that bias is overwhelmingly exhibited by one side.
He slowed the rate of health care cost increases, and got ~9% of the population which couldn’t get insurance to be able to get it. This is incredibly visible in a graph of coverage rates over time:
It’s hard to pretend that this is actually a good thing in a country where that only matters if you can absorb being price gouged, and tens of millions of Americans can’t. If you compare the cost of health care in the US to virtually any other country on earth, it’s even more laughable that you’re giving Obama a pass.
9% of the population which couldn’t get insurance to be able to get it
Only if you can absorb being price-gouged for it, and tens of millions can’t afford a sudden unexpected bill in the US.
The Democrats also took advantage of their supermajority to raise the minimum wage from $5.85/hour to where it is today
Uh huh, and we elected Biden on the promise to change it. Three years later, it’s worsened, and voters likely will hold Biden accountable for that.
It’s not partisanship. It’s that people are struggling.
Funny how Democrats aren’t saying that:
And Republicans are:
Now, the world isn’t some perfect place, and there are people with very real struggles, but there’s a very clear partisan bias when you ask people this kind of question, and one that’s appeared in recent years.
There will always be a partisan bias on every issue.
The point is that you shouldn’t ignore the reality of how shitty this economy is for the people whose votes you want, and Dems seem perfectly content do that.
Are we looking at the same charts? Only one of them has an noticeable bias, and it’s bonkers extreme: almost 80% negative right up until a Republican is sworn in, then almost immediately skyrockets to nearly 100% positive, brief dip for Covid before going right back up, then immediately down to almost 100% negative immediately after a Democrat is sworn in. The economy doesn’t shift like that, that didn’t correspond to any actual economic metric. That sentiment is entirely based on bias.
Compare with the other chart: much more moderate, much more gradual, much more correlated to data. You can’t tell exactly when the president changed by looking at it, which makes sense because the economy doesn’t swing like that.
Yes, there’s always a partisan bias on every by issue, and that bias is overwhelmingly exhibited by one side.
I don’t think they’re ignoring it at all; witness things like extending employee benefits to a lot of gig workers. It’s that they’ll never get credit for improving peoples lives no matter what they do.
It’s still legal to pay someone seven bucks an hour in nearly half of the US states.
It’s not insignificant that all our Federal Government does is broker and profit off wars.
Changing that requires a 60/100 supermajority in the Senate. The Democrats haven’t had that in a long time.
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He slowed the rate of health care cost increases, and got ~9% of the population which couldn’t get insurance to be able to get it. This is incredibly visible in a graph of coverage rates over time:
The Democrats also took advantage of their supermajority to raise the minimum wage from $5.85/hour to where it is today.
You’re just trolling at this point.
It’s hard to pretend that this is actually a good thing in a country where that only matters if you can absorb being price gouged, and tens of millions of Americans can’t. If you compare the cost of health care in the US to virtually any other country on earth, it’s even more laughable that you’re giving Obama a pass.
Only if you can absorb being price-gouged for it, and tens of millions can’t afford a sudden unexpected bill in the US.
And they haven’t done anything since, for which they deserve full credit, especially when homelessness grew by 12% last year.
I’m not trolling. I’m just not willing to pretend that the Democrats are doing anything meaningful at this point.