voters hear this horseshit all the time but Democrats never have anything to show at the end of the day but excuses about how it is all the Republicans fault
I already knew there was going to be a comment like this sitting at the top, I came here specifically to answer whatever it turned out to be.
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/01/19/economy/us-biden-economic-legacy/index.html
Basically, Biden was the first president since LBJ who actually gave some of a shit about the working class, and acted on it in a big way. There’s plenty of stuff in there about the problems he didn’t solve, of course. Basically I think he failed to realize that nobody gives a shit if the people at the very bottom end of the scale are making way more money, because they’re largely invisible in the media as they are on Lemmy, but everyone gives a shit if eggs are more expensive. You can tell them that wages have gone up by more than the cost of eggs, and post-Covid inflation hit every country and actually worse than it hit the US in most cases, but they won’t really care. I think if he’d gotten half the wage gains, but somehow managed to bring the cost of living in pure unadjusted dollars back down, then the Democrats probably would have won the election.
He also focused on climate change for the first time in American history and acted on it in a big way. That’s not nothing by any means.
You wouldn’t be wrong to say that most of the Democrats don’t care about the working class at all, and that corruption and inaction is going to hamper whoever the president is, whether it be Biden or Bernie Sanders or Che Guevara. How you solve that problem, I don’t know. But certainly, throwing one of them who did seem to moderately care about the working class unapologetically to the wolves, denying he did anything at all, and bashing him at every opportunity, isn’t exactly going to help.
He didn’t do anything for me. I can guarantee you that much. Biden will be remembered unfavorably for allowing Trump to happen again.
Sorry about the rant, I have a lot of feelings here.
Realistically, we all have this inherent bias and no one in my life has had their lives improved by Biden. Not a single one. I’m not upper class, my family is stable lower middle class now but we grew up very poor on food stamps and money is still a constant struggle for all of us. I’m glad that apparently people at the bottom have benefitted under Biden but I frankly don’t believe it.
Unions in my city are always fighting tooth and nail to get livable wages and most don’t succeed. I know many people in lower paying positions at my company who left and moved because they tried to get a livable wage and failed, so they went elsewhere because the only way to get any semblance of a good wage anymore is to quit and start anew. Everyone I talk to has suffered under inflation since 2020, without exception.
Again, if some people have benefitted that’s great. But I just haven’t seen it. What I have seen is year over year the C-suite giving themselves 10%+ raises while the rest of us get increases under inflation. That’s not Biden’s fault directly, but he sure hasn’t done anything else to make it any easier on us.
That’s my issue. Is he the Union president- because my Unions are struggling around here. Wages went down. The job market got worse and never improved. Jobs being outsourced right and left and when I asked my representatives about it I got some boiler plate responses about hard times.
Biden was a corporate candidate and he’s trying to make us put on rose colored glasses now that he’s gone. He could have stopped ALL of this and he CHOSE not to.
Now the trumpet summons us again — not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need; not as a call to battle, though embattled we are — but a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle, year in and year out, “rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation” — a struggle against the common enemies of man: tyranny, poverty, disease, and war itself.
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And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country.
JFK
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Sanders is already cozying up to Trump, I wouldn’t let him or his campaign manager anywhere near the DNC.
