“Would you prefer the beating continue?” is not a great campaign slogan. Getting inflation under control is a good thing, and the Biden administration should receive credit for its efforts. But ordinary people are suffering right now from the effects of inflation, and when the cost of living is already unsustainable, one doesn’t want to hear that it won’t be getting significantly worse, one wants to hear that it’s getting better.
It’s not fair that Republicans get to wreck shit (which is comparatively easy) so that Democrats have to come in and spend all their time and energy just fixing the last guy’s mess and hardly have any left to try and make any actual improvements. It’s a fundamentally broken aspect of our politics. But most voters don’t think in those terms, they think in terms of what they need to get through the day. If you can’t figure out a way to make real tangible improvements in normal peoples’ lives, you’re going to have a bad time come election day, deserved or not.
It’s just… the place where truly significant things can happen on that front is in the legislature, and they’re completely fucked. But people either put all the blame on the president, or if they recognize Congress’s role, they don’t appreciate that the Dems never had the numbers at any point during Biden’s term to do more than they managed to do.
You seem like the kind person who, if firefighters rescued you from a burning building, would be pissed at them for not preventing the fire in the first place.
Pissed at the firefighters, no, but I’m also not going to be jumping for joy that my house isn’t currently on fire when it is in fact a smoldering wreck. Ordinary people, people who vote, are hurting right now due to unrestrained corporate greed, and they need help beyond “It’s not getting worse right now!”
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Would…would you prefer the beating continue?
“Would you prefer the beating continue?” is not a great campaign slogan. Getting inflation under control is a good thing, and the Biden administration should receive credit for its efforts. But ordinary people are suffering right now from the effects of inflation, and when the cost of living is already unsustainable, one doesn’t want to hear that it won’t be getting significantly worse, one wants to hear that it’s getting better.
It’s not fair that Republicans get to wreck shit (which is comparatively easy) so that Democrats have to come in and spend all their time and energy just fixing the last guy’s mess and hardly have any left to try and make any actual improvements. It’s a fundamentally broken aspect of our politics. But most voters don’t think in those terms, they think in terms of what they need to get through the day. If you can’t figure out a way to make real tangible improvements in normal peoples’ lives, you’re going to have a bad time come election day, deserved or not.
It’s just… the place where truly significant things can happen on that front is in the legislature, and they’re completely fucked. But people either put all the blame on the president, or if they recognize Congress’s role, they don’t appreciate that the Dems never had the numbers at any point during Biden’s term to do more than they managed to do.
I’d prefer that the people who did the beating not be allowed to be in office anymore. There’s a lot of people on that list.
You seem like the kind person who, if firefighters rescued you from a burning building, would be pissed at them for not preventing the fire in the first place.
Pissed at the firefighters, no, but I’m also not going to be jumping for joy that my house isn’t currently on fire when it is in fact a smoldering wreck. Ordinary people, people who vote, are hurting right now due to unrestrained corporate greed, and they need help beyond “It’s not getting worse right now!”