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Don’t forget, Biden never wanted to give Covid relief checks either, it was only the threat of Trump promising to do so that caused him to actually do it (in order to win in places like Georgia if I recall correctly). Then he shortchanged everyone on the actual amount he promised (I don’t care if when you read the fine print he was technically correct, that was not how the promise was pitched to voters).
Trump is far worse, but let’s not forget how pathetic the Democratic Party is at actually helping desperate people.
You are definitely correct in the general sense. People actually to the left HAVE to remember: Democrats are allies only against the right. They are not ideologically aligned and no matter how many individuals you can pull left, "Democrats" will never be left or progressive.
They HAVE to be pushed to do good things. That doesn't magically make Trump good. Fuck that wannabe dictator and everyone who supports him, but Democrats are allies only against the right.
Why are you trying to speak on behalf of all democrats?
And why do you feel democrats are only allies against the right?
I speak on behalf of the label. Like I said: "no matter how many individuals you can pull left..."
The party itself is not a specific person. MAYBE people like AOC and others will succeed in shifting the whole party left, but as it stands, it is a heavily center-right organization on the global scale of politics as far as how they vote in-house, on actual legislation.
Most Democrat voters are not leftists, so it stands to reason that Democrats would not be leftists.
Biden never wanted to give Covid relief checks
Where did you hear this?
Then he shortchanged everyone on the actual amount he promised
I thought Congress decided the amount?
I mean, am I in Biden's head? No.
Is there any other reasonable conclusion to draw from his behavior and rhetoric in the political context he was in? No.
The process involved congress but the president had most of the power to frame and shape what the covid relief checks were.
It's almost like the president doesn't have absolute authority to implement ideas exactly how they like, and have to work with other branches of the government, which usually means compromising.
Wow. Guess we really should pivot to authoritarianism. Then campaign promises can be implemented to the letter. /s if that wasn't obvious.
I mean, am I in Biden's head? No.
So you made that up.
Is there any other reasonable conclusion to draw from his behavior and rhetoric in the political context he was in? No.
Republicans said they wouldn’t let the full $2000 pass. If Biden tried it anyway it wouldn’t pass and Americans would be left with nothing. That’s common sense. But you claim there is no other conclusion to come to…
The process involved congress but the president had most of the power to frame and shape what the covid relief checks were.
And Republicans in Congress said they wouldn’t let the full $2000 pass.
Source on this? Even if it is true democrats did nothing to publicize this fact, the fight for this shit is like Biden's "fight" for a $15 minimum wage. Even if he technically fought for it, the strategy is so poor and so halfhearted it hard to count it for anything meaningful.
What was poor about his strategy?
The only other strategy would be to write a bill that will go nowhere.
How is that a better strategy?