• Hairyblue@kbin.social
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    11 months ago

    This. Democrats are way better with ideas and policies that help working people, minorities, women, LGBTQ people, non Christians, and the middle class. Republicans only have tax cut for the wealthy and culture war hate.

    I wish Biden were more progressive, but he is a good president. And Trump is a criminal who wants to be a dictator.

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      11 months ago

      This. Democrats are way better with ideas and policies that help working people, minorities, women, LGBTQ people, non Christians, and the middle class.

      Now if they would get out of their own way and pass some.

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        11 months ago

        Biden has passed a lot of good policy: Inflation Reduction Act, CHIPS Act, Respect for Marriage Act, American Rescue Plan, and more. He has also put put fair judges on the bench and one of the supreme court. None of these would have happen under Republican control.

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          Democrats have blocked good policy as well. BBB and the minimum wage increase spring to mind. Democrats won’t end the filibuster to pass the John Lewis Voting Rights act. They didn’t end it to codify Roe. They won’t end it to codify Obergefell. They didn’t end it to support rail workers. Biden promised to revisit the public option during his campaign. Hasn’t bothered to try. And this is a pattern of behavior going back decades. Our own caucus killed the public option with no help from Republicans. We had a filibuster-proof majority and we still managed to find enough no votes. Even after the bill went to reconciliation and could have been passed with a simple majority, did we put the public option back? Of course we didn’t. Did we even try to? Nope.

          Nothing stops Democratic policy like Democrats.

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      11 months ago

      Biden is a good president? He is literally funding and supporting a genocide. The fact that the alternative is worse doesn’t make biden good.

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        11 months ago

        I can’t think of a US president in my lifetime who shouldn’t have been tried and convicted by the ICC.

        We’re Americans: We don’t get nice things. Especially government.