“I think what you’re reacting to is that, at the moment, Biden is an unpopular president seeking a second term while Trump is a popular figure inside his party who is winning primary races. I wouldn’t necessarily compare the two.”

Credit to @JoshuaHolland

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    Yup, great for lobbyists, wall street, and the military industrial complex.

    Like Biden.

    Progressives have killed the democrat party.

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      You are left-wing, correct? Good leftist who’s just upset with Biden for not being left enough?

      I ask because I have literally never heard a left wing person say “Democrat party”.

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        Well, in the better times, Democrats called themselves liberals.

        They stopped genocides, they didn’t enable them.

        Hilary refused to call herself a liberal (because she is a conservative) and lost to Obama bringing the word “Progressive” back to to the party and killing the term “Liberal”.

        I was a liberal democrat. Now I am a disenfranchised fuck you all, don’t commit genocide, don’t subsidize billionaires, shelter and feed the homeless, make housing affordable again guy.

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          Ah yes, all those OG Democrats with their humane and sensible Israel policy. As an old-school left wing person like you, I remember them well. Which ones were your favorites?

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            Y’all remember Kennedy and how he called for the end of the Vietnam War? Yeah, me neither.

            Both parties have always had pretty shitty international policy, but at least one of those parties actually wants to govern and participate in democracy.

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      but when you look at actions in his control (outside of congress), biden has been one of the most progressive, pro union democrats in recent history

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        Passing legislation that prevents railway workers from protesting and in turn working out a private deal where they get a one time raise that isnt codified in law is pro union?

        Yes, that is progressivism. Its being crony conservative, but Democrat.

        Damn… I am just taken aback by your take. Eat up their lies, keep your eyes as tightly shut as possible.

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            … but no form of annual or cost of living wage increases went through congress.

            Give a starving man a fish and he will call you a god. Ban him from ever fishing again and wait 3 days… reap what you sow.

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        Being pro-worker for a tepid neoliberal is like being woke for a member of the GOP. While better than outright fascism, of course, liberalism is inherently anti-worker and pro-Capitalist. Biden has been giving band-aids to gaping stab wounds and running victory laps, without attempting to meaningfully address the root cause.