• DarkFuture@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    Even when Democrats are in power, they still don’t do anything hardly at all.

    They get plenty done. They just don’t get everything YOU want done.

    Do yourself a favor and Google Biden’s accomplishments as president. He actually got a lot of good shit done. But Democrats are always held to a higher standard, so people like to pretend they didn’t do anything because they expect them to do everything.

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      3 hours ago

      Yes, Biden accomplished a lot…that was then subsequently undone by Trump.

      Should Biden get credit for it still? Sure. He tried and it was a calm 4 years we had with him, minus inflation.

      Did it make a fly’s fart worth of difference? No, because much of that action was done through executive actions.

      Biden did very little to support actual, systemic change to our voting systems, protections against executive power abuse, etc. He spent 4 years working hard to have his work mostly undone in a month.

      We don’t need incremental growth anymore. We’ve ignored systemic problems so long now that drastic change is needed. Systemic problems in education, voter rights protections, LGBTQ+ protections, higher education (he did try to kinda address this), racism, etc. Many of these things Biden didn’t do anything to change that were long lasting, legislative changes.

      These problems aren’t just on Biden, though. They require the whole party to move as one progressive unit and not capitulate to this “both sides” and “moderate” bullshit. The Republican party is regressive and obstructionist and in order to combat it, we must take bold moves to show how green the grass is on the other side. Not “nothing will fundamentally change”.