Originally posted by: Roger S
What the hell are you talking about? If the Democrats lose Congress they'll only have themselves to blame, Biden ran as a moderate and won but immediately made a hard left with his policies, that's why he's losing ground with the people who voted for him, he needs to act more like Manchin and less like AOC. If you're nauseous, take a pepto bismol, but if the Democrats lose Congress and or the Presidency, blame their policy. They are in control of three branches of government, and their party is a mess.
Unfortunately, our antidemocratic system lets the minority party stop everything worthwhile. Plus, the defector Manchin is negating whatever control of the Senate the Democrats nominally had.
I do wonder how delusional you really are. Biden didn't "make a hard left." He started doing the things he said he was going to do. There weren't any surprises.
Where Biden went wrong was in naively assuming that the Republicans would be anything other than mindlessly obstructionist. He truly thought that they would drop the partisan nonsense for the good of the country. Of course, he was wrong. The Republican Party has shown that it has one interest only: power. And it will do ANYTHING to make sure that no Republican ever loses an election again.
"Acting more like Manchin" would mean cozying up to the fossil fuel industry and kicking climate change mitigation to the curb. It would also mean ignoring the fact that his social reform bills are necessary--even vital--and therefore must be funded, and the only way to do that is to reverse the Trump goodies-for-the-rich tax cuts. But Biden's not going to do that.
I really don't understand why AOC makes conservitards pop like overripe zits. Is it simply because she's Hispanic and female--two types of human beings that per Republican orthodoxy, are inherently inferior to white males?
I've already detailed how people are blaming Biden for the fact that the pandemic isn't over but giving him no credit for the efforts he's made to stop it. They blame him for inflation but give him no credit for massive job growth AND real wage increases for the first time in forty years. He's being obstructed, mindlessly, at every turn by the increasingly deranged RepubliQ. Hey, I don't really like the guy all that much. He's a good man, but is trying to fight using Marquis of Queensbury rules while the other guys are eye-gouging and groin-kicking.
What's dragging down his poll numbers is the fact that everything isn't all unicorns and rainbows. No reasonable person would have expected that, not even one year after the Trump horror ended, but the fact of the matter is that people don't have a lot of patience right now.
