Politics is performative. I’m tired of having to eat shit because some geriatric is pretending it’s 1999. The conservatives understand this and it’s why they get elected with track records of making us eat shit.
It really needs to be contextualized that, compared to essentially all other countries, the economic recovery the United States has experienced is far far better. That doesn’t mean that people’s pain right now isn’t real, but a lot of these issues are global in scale, and leaders across the entire planet have been having much harder times. There isn’t a “economy gooder” button on Biden’s desk that he can press.
The thing they aren’t getting is that people are in financial pain. It doesn’t matter that the dive was arrested, they’re still in a pile of shit. He’s celebrating like he fixed it when all he did was avert a catastrophe in the next year. If his messaging acknowledged people’s pain and said he wanted to get the economy good for people without stock based trust funds then more than a third of the country might respond positively to him.
How about unfucking the economy? Can we do that?
If there was a panacea for it? Sure.
Unfortunately actually unfucking it is politically impossible without a unified and directioned house and senate.
And impossible with short sighted voters.
It takes time, decades, of diligent and thoughtful change to achieve. Voters can barely maintain the same ideas and expectations for 6 months.
Essentially it’s a problem of America’s making and America has no interest in actually solving it, just complaining about it and pointing fingers.
Yeah. I get that. But that’s what’s going to sink him on election night. He needs to at least be promising something.
What a beautiful illustration to the statement you responded to.
Politics is performative. I’m tired of having to eat shit because some geriatric is pretending it’s 1999. The conservatives understand this and it’s why they get elected with track records of making us eat shit.
It really needs to be contextualized that, compared to essentially all other countries, the economic recovery the United States has experienced is far far better. That doesn’t mean that people’s pain right now isn’t real, but a lot of these issues are global in scale, and leaders across the entire planet have been having much harder times. There isn’t a “economy gooder” button on Biden’s desk that he can press.
But there is an “I’m working on it” button on the press briefing room podium.
He just isn’t hitting it. He’s going with ‘Bidenomics’ because Stonk Number go up.
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/11/14/white-house-bidenomics-polling-00126982
The thing they aren’t getting is that people are in financial pain. It doesn’t matter that the dive was arrested, they’re still in a pile of shit. He’s celebrating like he fixed it when all he did was avert a catastrophe in the next year. If his messaging acknowledged people’s pain and said he wanted to get the economy good for people without stock based trust funds then more than a third of the country might respond positively to him.