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Help explain to me

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Lemmy seems to be the only reasonable place left on the web. Explain to me how the booming economy was working under Biden when corporate profits reached an all time high? Explain to me how the highest quickest inflation we have ever seen was under Biden but that meant we had a good economy? Of course stocks were high, they were bloated with our money. It is the largest wealth transfer we have ever seen, Biden let it happen, didn’t make any moves to tax billionaires. He called for return to office work, killing a minor joy and cost savings American people finally found. Now, I voted for Kamala because I had to. But I don’t like these moderate politics. Dnc is just as bad, people were waiting just as long for jobs, it was quieter sure but there was no real movement. Joe and Obama both promised to codify women’s rights and never did. Democratic leadership seems to me just as bad as this nightmare regime, one just allows people to hate louder. We still sent people to concentration camps under Obama and we still did drone strikes and unnecessary wars. Biden was a net bad for my family, the longest periods of unemployment anyone I know had experienced meanwhile employment numbers “were so good”. Then why didn’t my experience and those around me match that? Help me understand. Bernie seems to be the only one on my wavelength so I am registering as an independent. But when I see people posting videos of Kamala saying “trumps policies are so bad” yet her own was all the same democratic billionaire tax free nonsense, it drives me nuts. Bad and worse. That’s all I see.

Apr 4, 2025 at 12:09pmWeb
Show threadaubeynarfApr 4, 2025

Unfortunately you don’t get things because you want them, you get things that actually exist.

No progressive/leftist party or candidate exists that can gain more than a couple of percent of the vote.

Show threadhenfredemarsApr 4, 2025

People don’t like to hear it, but I believe what we’re seeing now is just a massive exacerbation of issues that we already had before. We’re now speed running it to its eventual conclusion rather than doing something about it.

The economy wasn’t serving Americans yesterday. It’s not serving them today. We still live in a dystopian hell as we were living in one a few years back.

We need a real change. The question is, are the people willing to do what it takes?

Show threadBinx85Apr 4, 2025

It is important to understand different historical methods of political change as well as their consequences. Blowing a system up with the intent to rebuild from scratch means there are new holes for the rats to hide in rather than revise a pre-existing structure with a knowledge of how many of those rats hide and being able to address some of them while avoiding creating too many new hiding spots.

This was the problem with both Bernie and Trump; however, Bernie at least held the interest of the middle and lower classes as his priority. It is pretty clear who Trump’s priority os.

Show threaddhorkApr 4, 2025

The biggest problem for the Biden economy was how uneven it was. The economy as a whole got better, but not for everyone. Part of this was due to the lingering effects of the Pandemic, where entire industries that relied on social contact were put on hold, while work that could be done remotely thrived.

Whenever a critical article about Trump starts with “Experts Say”, I like to remind people that Donald Trump did not get elected (Twice!) by listening to experts. But I think Democrats listened a bit too much to their consultants. Economic indicators don’t vote, people do. Those people got insulted when their government told them “Trust us! It’s all going well”, while their bank account told a different story.

Show threadjordanlundApr 4, 2025
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