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[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This article is so misleading.

Reuters considers the "Biden agenda" to be things like fighting climate change, infrastructure spending, and healthcare reform.

If Biden actually fought for the "Biden agenda" then he would be much more popular.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Already forgotten about the infrastructure bill? That also includes a lot of climate action.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I agree the infrastructure bill is a step in the right direction, but its mostly just clearing the maintenance backlog. Our infrastructure will be upgraded from "crumbling" to "poor". Its easy to forget it, most Americans already have.

Now instead of being 20 years behind China, our infrastructure will only be 15 years behind. As the richest country in the history of earth, we can do so much better than this.

And as for climate, tinkering around the edges isn't meaningful. We are still going full speed ahead towards climate ccatastrophe. We need radical change to save our civilization, and this bill ain't it, jack.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As the richest country in the history of earth, we can do so much better than this.

This always pisses me off. Look how far we've gotten with such piss poor leadership for so long. Imagine what the nation could look like if we had even just mostly competent leadership for the last 50 years.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I dont agree that it's a competency issue.

Our leaders are hyper-competent when fighting for the interests of wall street, the military industrial complex, the oil and gas industry, the insurance industry, etc.

Powerful moneyed interests are their real constituents. They only pretend to care about the needs of real working Americans when they need votes.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And Trump is going to do better on any of that? No way in hell.

Might as well complain that Biden didn't cure cancer and buy everyone a puppy.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Asking for a democratically elected leader to respond to the needs of the people isn't "curing cancer and buying puppies"

And yes Biden is better than Trump, but is that really how low you want to set the bar?

Have some standards, mate.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I think the bar is already set that low because you wouldn't need to choose between two geriatrics if the bar was higher. America could do better, but America won't do better