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This Is Biden’s Soft Landing, and He Deserves Some Credit
(newrepublic.com)
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High stock prices don't get people food, housing or healthcare.
It's great news if you own a hedge fund, but completely fucking worthless if you can't feed your kids.
Any time someone talks about "the economy", you can freely substitute "rich people's yacht money".
The main problem is, that most of the things you need to help people are in the power of Congress, not the president.
The first two years, Manchin and Sinema blocked meaningful reform in the Senate. And now there is a republican shit show in the house.
"but hey, the rich people are doing fabulously" is pretty fucking cold comfort for the people that they're unable to help. Read the goddamn room.
Also, if the government isn’t capable of helping me, why bother voting?
Yeah, I don’t think this article is meant for us Normans, this is a nod to the donor class that Biden is worth re-investment for ‘24.
I'm so fucking tired of hearing about Manchin and Sinema.
The economy doing well helps you feed your kid because you can, ya know, have a job.
Having a job is infinitely preferable to not, so... Pretty well.
And Trump, the self-professed billionaire who cut the taxes of other billionaires, is going to be SO much more beneficial for the middle and lower class.
Or you know maybe we could raise the bar just a teeny little bit above 'at least he isn't as bad as trump'.
Yeah, neither is a shit sandwich and a rubdown with a cheese grater, but that doesn't mean you have to want it.
I'm really sick of this line of reasoning that functionally goes:
And when somebody says "hey, this doesn't align with my experience, can we just acknowledge that things aren't actually that great and work towards fixing them?" The response is
MF, I don't, but if the people don't feel seen by Biden, they might not vote for him specifically because of all the tone-deaf paternalistic "stop whining about my economy, you're fine actually" messaging. It's kind of a similar vibe to answering "can we not support genocide in Gaza, please?" With "why do you hate Jews?!". It's just an attempt to avoid dealing with legitimate criticism while deflecting it back onto the asker. The clinton campaign already tested this strategy in 16, and we all saw how that turned out.
This is, generally, true on all counts.
Anyone who doesn't think avoiding a recession is better than the alternative is not a serious person worth listening to, and there is probably a link between their understanding of economics and their poverty.
I kinda get the vibe you're trying to be smarmy. Look, saying "you should be happy you're not in a recession, stupid" is not effective messaging. If it's going to take losing this election for you and the DNC to learn that, I'm going to be awfully fucking cross.
Democrats literally just had a massive series of electoral victories, this month.
I mean, it's not like Democrats have never managed to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory before. I'm just saying, this is shit tier messaging, and when the whole ass republic is at stake, it sure would be nice to see them actually trying instead of phoning it in with shitty messaging because "the other guy is basically Hitler and we've been doing pretty well".
Dude the other side couldnt get it's shit together enough to keep a speakership in place. What do you expect the Democrats to be doing? It's a miracle the government is funded at all.
This is a result of them trying. Biden's "contribution" here was primarily from democrat-pushed legislation.
Look, if your point is that "they deserve to use shitty messaging if they want, don't worry about it, bro", well, okay. That's your opinion, and that's fine. I don't think it's a smart choice, politically speaking, and that's where I'm coming from. People are feeling the hurt right now, and I think you're going to find that correcting their complaints with "we should be thanking Biden, actually" is bitter medicine. Maybe they know what they're doing, but somehow this feels familiar from the '16 Clinton Campaign; like they've got permission to fucking phone it in because the other guy is unelectable. I hope you're right and they really do know what they're doing.
My point is a rebuttal to your insinuation that Democrats are not trying to fix anything or do anything. That's false.
I agree Dems aren't as good at messaging as Republicans.