Let’s say Roosevelt comes back from the dead and is magically. elected POTUS and the first thing he does is nominates 3 liberal justices to add to the SCOTUS do you think Manchin and Senima and Tester and like 10 other Senate institutionalist would vote to confirm? The reason a lot of the liberal agenda stalls out isn’t because of Biden. He isn’t the road block. If he pushed harder sadly he would just lose more often.
All of this is just a continuation of Trump though. It would have been so much worse if Trump stayed in office or worse had been successful in his insurrection
Then he's not a very good negotiator
Absolutely. But you don't meet that with milquetoast.
Yeah this issue is that the checks and balances thing works both ways; the difference is one party is “handicapped” by actually working within the institutions for change while the other is all for straight dictatorship as long as they get their way. Anything that Biden would do to strengthen the executive branch now would only be taken advantage of the next time that a GOP demagogue was elected president.
Who would be? That person doesn’t exist. Literally, nothing happened and Siennema left the party. If he pushed hard enough Manchin would have been right behind her. The most charismatic and intelligent presidents within my lifetime were Clinton and Obama neither were able to radically shift things. It’s just not how this Country works sadly. I am all for fixing or correcting these issue in hopes of having a more representative liberal democracy but any shortcuts taken today is going to only hasten the fall into shit the next time a sociopath is elected president.
So we just wait until they do it themselves and get nothing out of it?
I mean this is a water is wet report.
Big Pharma spends billions more on executives and stockholders than on R&D
Senate report points to greed and “patent thickets” as key reasons for high prices.arstechnica.com
That's some pretty far-out magical thinking!
No, push! Everyone should push hard for radical change but they should also be realistic about what that change actually looks like and how long it takes to actually effect their everyday lives. It’s much easier to slide back down a hill than to climb up it. We all get disillusioned when things don’t change radically and immediately many have struggled much longer and harder than I will ever to get the places we have gotten to only recently and the struggle is far from over but if you want to make things better you have to power through the bullshit (this election) so we have a shot at something better for everyone down the road.
Yeah, that is why I said best case scenario. It’s unlikely that all of that will come to fruition but it’s also not impossible that some of it may happen either.
The only time Biden has really put his foot on the gas was to (twice) unilaterally bypass congress to send more of our tax dollars to arm an ongoing genocide, but when it comes to healthcare, student loans, abortion, sorry I'm totally powerless ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Yea, Trump policies continuing under Biden is the exact opposite of an endorsement/good excuse. People raged about Trump's treatment of migrants at the border, and stuff like that has just continued on as usual.
Things get worse a lot faster than they get better.
Sure, and it's Joe's lack of urgency or drastic measures as things get worse for everyone that's killing him
Besides that.
It’s a pretty big aside, but their wants and desires have very little to do with ours and really their actions on a daily basis affect my life today about as much as the president’s. They are just as out of touch and whackadoodle BUT have 1000000% more actual power.