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long article by Jacobin's David Sirota which comes with a list of Biden's broken promises, which i'll highlight in the next post, plus the article repeatedly invokes The Joker, which I didn't include in the excerpts for brevity, you'll have to read the article for that content
jacobinmag.com
excerpts:
By making big promises and then steadfastly refusing to deliver on them, Joe Biden and the Democratic Party’s power brokers are helping Republicans convince the country that government and politics can’t make life better for average people. Biden is actively convincing a generation to believe nothing will fundamentally change.
Tossing the GOP a lifeline, he has reverted to his familiar formula that some warned about during the Democratic presidential primaries: amid intensifying crises, he promises big changes that could help the working class — and then prevents those changes from actually happening.
It’s occurred over and over again:
He speechifies about the need to address crises he then makes worse.
The baiting and switching is a feature, not a bug — a deliberate strategy predicated on a corporate media ecosystem that ignores the gap between White House rhetoric and action
Ensconced in a bubble of blue-wave emojis, Team Blue hashtags, and genuflecting punditry, Biden and his staff likely assume they can rhetorically placate voters and yet enrich the Biden campaign donors crushing those voters — and they expect nobody will catch on to the ruse. They appear to assume that as a pile of unsigned executive orders sit in the Oval Office, voters will believe his media loyalists’ claims that “there’s just not much President Joe Biden can do” about anything.
As his poll numbers crater, Biden appears to be offering no course correction, and he still hasn’t signed a stack of executive orders on matters ranging from debt cancellation to drug pricing. The Delaware president — who used his first State of the Union address to gloat about hailing “from the land of corporate America” — is now just leaning in to a fuck-around-and-find-out nonchalance.
In the face of all this, Democrats’ campaign apparatus has gotten downright desperate. It is now airing ads boasting about a “historic middle-class tax cut” tax credit that has already expired and about an insulin price cap (for insured Americans only) that hasn’t actually been passed into law — as if no one will be infuriated by those realities, even though data suggests many voters already are.
Amid an explosion of child poverty following the end of the expanded child tax credit, the Washington commentariat sees solid macroeconomy data and wonders why so many polls show an electorate enraged at Biden and Democrats — and it’s certainly true that right-wing media has successfully duped a chunk of voters into not believing some basic economic realities
There is the poll showing Democrats losing their edge among voters who were cut off from the child tax credit. For a while, goodwill from this policy was actually improving Democrats’ standing among Trump voters. Now, they may even be seeing former beneficiaries of the tax credit turning against them.
The Democratic establishment is evincing a glib attitude, exemplified by a party guru’s much-touted Politico piece scoffing at young people — an update on Biden himself eye-rolling millennials’ struggles.
Joe Biden Is Making Americans’ Political Nihilism Worse
By making big promises and then steadfastly refusing to deliver on them, Joe Biden and the Democratic Party’s power brokers are helping Republicans convince the country that government and politics can’t make life better for average people.
jacobinmag.com
excerpts:
By making big promises and then steadfastly refusing to deliver on them, Joe Biden and the Democratic Party’s power brokers are helping Republicans convince the country that government and politics can’t make life better for average people. Biden is actively convincing a generation to believe nothing will fundamentally change.
Tossing the GOP a lifeline, he has reverted to his familiar formula that some warned about during the Democratic presidential primaries: amid intensifying crises, he promises big changes that could help the working class — and then prevents those changes from actually happening.
It’s occurred over and over again:
He speechifies about the need to address crises he then makes worse.
The baiting and switching is a feature, not a bug — a deliberate strategy predicated on a corporate media ecosystem that ignores the gap between White House rhetoric and action
Ensconced in a bubble of blue-wave emojis, Team Blue hashtags, and genuflecting punditry, Biden and his staff likely assume they can rhetorically placate voters and yet enrich the Biden campaign donors crushing those voters — and they expect nobody will catch on to the ruse. They appear to assume that as a pile of unsigned executive orders sit in the Oval Office, voters will believe his media loyalists’ claims that “there’s just not much President Joe Biden can do” about anything.
As his poll numbers crater, Biden appears to be offering no course correction, and he still hasn’t signed a stack of executive orders on matters ranging from debt cancellation to drug pricing. The Delaware president — who used his first State of the Union address to gloat about hailing “from the land of corporate America” — is now just leaning in to a fuck-around-and-find-out nonchalance.
In the face of all this, Democrats’ campaign apparatus has gotten downright desperate. It is now airing ads boasting about a “historic middle-class tax cut” tax credit that has already expired and about an insulin price cap (for insured Americans only) that hasn’t actually been passed into law — as if no one will be infuriated by those realities, even though data suggests many voters already are.
Amid an explosion of child poverty following the end of the expanded child tax credit, the Washington commentariat sees solid macroeconomy data and wonders why so many polls show an electorate enraged at Biden and Democrats — and it’s certainly true that right-wing media has successfully duped a chunk of voters into not believing some basic economic realities
There is the poll showing Democrats losing their edge among voters who were cut off from the child tax credit. For a while, goodwill from this policy was actually improving Democrats’ standing among Trump voters. Now, they may even be seeing former beneficiaries of the tax credit turning against them.
The Democratic establishment is evincing a glib attitude, exemplified by a party guru’s much-touted Politico piece scoffing at young people — an update on Biden himself eye-rolling millennials’ struggles.
