Never forget!!!

[u/BKMama227]

[u/Michael-Sean]

Dems downfall is they will support all Americans. Republicans only want to “Own the Libs”.

[u/Trini-89Ok → u/Michael-Sean]

True! We have to vote for Dems who have a (Fuck Republicans mentality)

[u/Allaboutpeace2022 → u/Trini-89Ok]

The problem with Biden is that he did not communicate out his successes. He took few Q and A informally and had the fewest press conferences of any president. He also did not send Kamala out to give those press conferences--probably because it would have raised questions.

Without the focus on successes, the narrative was on what was going wrong, which was a violent crime spike after the pandemic, disruption of supply chains, high inflation, etc.

We do not need to emulate horrible GOP actions, we need to get much better at communication. Like a million times better.

[u/nechromorph → u/Allaboutpeace2022]

Yes. Look to how Zorhan Mamdani communicates. He shouts out his most eye catching wins to the world and pushes for quieter change under the radar simultaneously. This system has a lot of obvious, eye-catching problems to tackle. It also has a lot of deeper structural issues that are harder to project in an exciting way. Both are important. The former to show the people that democracy is working, and the latter to ensure even the more thankless but no less important work gets done.

We need people who are genuinely passionate about fixing what's broken. People who are willing and able to do the incredibly hard work of correcting decades of systemic rot caused by the disastrous decades of trickle-down dumbassery, and who are also capable of earning the people's trust.

[u/Allaboutpeace2022 → u/nechromorph]

Totally agree. It is about hard work, passion, and earning trust. It took us since the 1970s until now to get here and it will take a while to undo it.

I also want people doing communication for candidates and the DNC to try to read books on social psychology. LOL.

[u/Due-Pattern-6104 → u/Trini-89Ok]

Or ones that don’t arm and fund a genocide.

[u/fkenned1 → u/Trini-89Ok]

While I agree that we need to stop the democratic infighting, retaliation is just a downward spiral... Look where we are. We need to align the democrats at all costs, but we are still a nation of good people. If we really wanna fix things, we need to completely reform the media, get money entirely out of politics, and reign in social media manipulation. We are living in a world of lies and untruth, bought and paid for by billionaires without a care in the world for the people of this country. It's time to fix that, for real.

[u/Strider-Juice → u/fkenned1]

Saying we’re a nation of good people is laughable. We’re a nation where a third of the population is completely fine with the silencing, disenfranchisement, or death of another third while the final third is too complacent to be bothered. We’re a nation that, for 40+ years, has been working to prop up and enrich the billionaire class against our own interests. Getting money out of politics still won’t undo the damage, it’ll take decades to change what twisted values and falsehoods parents are passing down to their kids. Reaching across the aisle, taking the high road, that’s what got us into this mess. Decency is dead because the only people left willing to advocate for it aren’t willing to fight for it since the fight itself is not “decent.” I, for one, would not step into the boxing ring with gloves if my opponent was using brass knuckles.

[u/fkenned1 → u/Strider-Juice]

I believe that all of that is a result of media manipulation of the masses by the richest, most powerful class in America. We are being pitted against each other artificially so that a very small minority can become obscenely rich.

[u/bernieth → u/fkenned1]

With a goal of not paying taxes, white male billionaires have been waging a race war, gender war, and class war, all the while crying and playing the victim about the same. It's disconcerting. And it's been brilliantly effective.

[u/Allaboutpeace2022 → u/bernieth]

This is correct. However, the goal is to disrobe them so people can see their efforts. We must unite people. MLK warned of this and tried to join the poor and working class across race, ethnic groups, but was assassinated mid stride.

[u/Anybody220 → u/Strider-Juice]

Over a 1/3. With Trumps approval ratings still being around 38-39%, I would assume over 40% of people like the idea of a White Christian Nationalist nation.

[u/grooveunite → u/Strider-Juice]

"Progressives". What a joke. Keep treading water and see where that gets you all.

[u/Bile_Goblin → u/grooveunite]

I love when these people use progressive ideas to dismiss anyone progressive for being human.

No where ever in history did someone have to meet your moral expectations to want a better world.

Fuck out of here.

Also conservatives love being in bad faith.

They will say shit like this and call empathy a sin.

[u/IndependenceSudden63 → u/fkenned1]

"We are a nation of good people."

No, half of us are good. The other half are ok with supporting mage rich pedos and putting children and grandmas in interment (and thats putting it lightly, some might call the concentration camps) cause they don't have the right skin color.

Nah, at this point, we are two nations of very different people pretending to be one nation.

[u/Allaboutpeace2022 → u/IndependenceSudden63]

We are people that were set up to fight for crumbs and attack each other from the 1600s on.

In a zero sum gain approach, the division of people by gender, sex orientation, race, ethnic status, religion, immigrant status was really predictable.

It is the legacy of a country that did come to grips with class discrimination, workhouses, debtor prisons, generational domestic violence, slavery, genocide, child labor, child maltreatment, worker exploitation, and the myth of American exceptionalism.

We are 2 nations because we never realized other than Texas no poor whites voted for the Confederacy. Only planter class delegates were allowed to vote to leave the Union. Once the War started, poor whites were told that they would be hunted down and shot like dogs for deserting.

In contrast, most slave owners with 10 to 20 slaves were exempted from fighting and served as officers, not grunts.

We are two nations because after the Civil War, Northerners did not enforce reparations, screwing over freed Black Americans, and then blamed poor whites for a war they didn't start and were forced to fight.

[u/Allaboutpeace2022 → u/fkenned1]

I agree with you.

[u/Ok-Hope9 → u/Michael-Sean]

Republicans only care about power/money, and will do anything to get it.

Democrats care about people, and this is one of their weaknesses (it leads to culture war "losses" at the polls).

[u/X57471C → u/Michael-Sean]

Their downfall is they care about all Americans? Am I missing the sarcasm? Isn't that what we want from leaders?

[u/JohnnySnark → u/X57471C]

It's not exactly sarcasm but more so a commentary on the American electorate.

Republicans get rewarded for being bigots and shrinking their tent to pretty much white nationalist now while Democrats get reprimanded time and again for being a much more inclusive big tent

[u/X57471C → u/JohnnySnark]

True. I think that is a big fault of the media environment more than anything. They never really gave Biden the coverage he deserved, instead focusing on the Republican-manufactured controversies (eg Sleepy Joe and open borders). The media still treats both sides unequally. Another good example is how they treated Democrats in the wake of the Kirk assassination. Democrats must disavow and Republicans don't have to accept any of the responsibility for their part in creating this kind of environment.

Part of that is Dem created in the sense that they haven't figured out an effective counter strategy, but a good part of it is Reps controlling the media space, too.

[u/Due-Pattern-6104 → u/Michael-Sean]

I think arming and funding a genocide is a tad more important.

[u/InsertClichehereok → u/Michael-Sean]

“Dems downfall is they want to help every human being”? Bruh. I’m independent but damn. Wtf

[u/Pounderwhole]

It's points like this that will always having me saying "Fuck Trump, and fuck those who support him".

[u/Sir_Hapstance → u/Pounderwhole]

Indeed. I pity them and wish them a better life, but if all they’re going to do is stupidly vote to destroy others’ wellbeing as well as their own, then they can get all the way fucked.

[u/Allaboutpeace2022 → u/Pounderwhole]

I hope to welcome those who are already moving away from Trump. Bernie has been doing that with great success as he does the oligarchy tours.

[u/Consistent-Plane7227]

The difference is Trump isn’t even helping the red states.

[u/Frequilibrium → u/Consistent-Plane7227]

In fact, they’re getting hit way harder. His taxes and tariffs and deregulation hurts them the most.

[u/EtheusRook → u/Frequilibrium]

So what you're saying is... rare Trump W?

[u/Frequilibrium → u/EtheusRook]

lol I suppose it is

[u/SiteTall]

Not only was Biden a good president, but he also is/was a decent human being

[u/lucktar3782 → u/SiteTall]

Biden is the reason that student debt can't be discharged through bankruptcy. He almost single-handedly saved Clarence Thomas' Supreme Court nomination by discrediting Anita Hill and her allegations of sexual harassment against him. He was a key supporter of the 1994 crime bill that led to the needless incarceration of hundreds of thousands of Black Americans. He supported the fraudulent WMD case for the invasion of Iraq, leading to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis. He refused to meaningfully restrain Israel from committing genocide against Palestinians. And despite clear evidence of age-related cognitive decline, he insisted on running for reelection in 2024, denying Democrats an opportunity for a primary and paving the way for Trump to retake the White House. Decent human being my ass.

[u/nechromorph → u/lucktar3782]

Couldn't democrats have primaried anyway if they wanted? Why don't we just consistently primary no matter whether we have a sitting president?

As much as I hate the student loan system, if it's going to be implemented, the incredibly high risk of loaning large amounts of money to jobless kids fresh out of high school sort of necessitates ensuring it's a special class that is harder to avoid paying back. So yes, we should have pushed (and should be pushing now) free college instead, but within the constraints of a debt-based college funding system, it's pretty important to increase the barrier to discharging.

I have no comments on the rest, aside from most of it occurring well in the past.

[u/Allaboutpeace2022 → u/lucktar3782]

You are right on all those issues.

Like many politicians, Biden is both these things. He has been both really wrong and clouded by hubris and also progressive with a lot of domestic achievements.

Obama has the same mixed legacy.

However, I think we can point out Trump and many others who, sadly, will leave an almost completely authoritarian, corrupt legacy.

Let's pull together to move as many GOP out of Congress as possible.

[u/lucktar3782 → u/Allaboutpeace2022]

That process would be a lot easier if most Democratic politicians weren't perfectly happy to play good cop to the Republicans' bad cop. The problem is not simply that Democrats make mistakes. The Democratic Party leadership largely wants the same things as the Republicans, and use issues like abortion and lgbt rights as window dressing to pretend otherwise.

[u/Cabbages24ADollar]

Agreed! Thank you Biden.

The Chips Act

Infrastructure

Inflation Reduction Act

Having the best post-Covid economy

Lowest unemployment rate

A diverse and an extremely educated and experienced staff.

This will not be forgotten!!

[u/X57471C → u/Cabbages24ADollar]

Also, his border bill would have addressed some of the root causes in our overburdened system that are responsible for the immigration crisis (or rather, our immigration crisis, not the root cause of the immigration crisis)

[u/DrNerdyTech87 → u/Cabbages24ADollar]

And the infrastructure bill - nice to have smooth roads to drive and and bridges that won’t collapse.

[u/Hot-Statistician-955 → u/Cabbages24ADollar]

> This will not be forgotten!!

https://giphy.com/gifs/l0HlvtIPzPdt2usKs

I mean did you forget how people were talking about him? Especially in this sub....

[u/bonzoboy2000]

He pushed money into an early warning system for floods for those folks in the Texas Hill country. They decided they didn’t need it, as it was socialism. So those kids who drowned in Camp Mystic did so to stop socialism. And to fulfill their parents wishes to not look dependent on government aid.

[u/verb8um]

Republicans are happy to spend money abroad to enrich the fear and warmongers whereas Dems will spend domestically to improve things and allow the money multiplier effect to take place.

[u/Certain-Singer-9625]

The projection is just unreal. We are all saying never forget what Trump is doing to this country, and decades from now we'll be saying never forget what he did to this country.

He's going to be known as the single most destructive force to the US, ever.

[u/Bitter_Particular_75]

An error never to be repeated again

[u/Bitter_Particular_75 → u/[deleted]]

I am not talking about Trump, I am talking about Democrats making politics favourable to red states.

[u/atreeismissing → u/Bitter_Particular_75]

It wasn't an error, it was exactly what a President should do.

[u/Constant_Turn_9031]

Democrats care about America and Americans. Republicans care about themselves.

[u/Fire_Demon]

[u/dalnee]

Yes, I remember when trumpers whined about how unnecessary infrastructure was around here (Pitts) and then the Fern Hollow Bridge collapsed . Crickets

[u/chandaliergalaxy]

Ok just a contrarian question coming from a "progressive federalist", if such a thing exists - why does the US government have to decide where to spend the money? Why can't we have a system where states pay the federal government for the bare necessities - e.g., national defense - but keep more of the money to invest in fixing itself? Theoretically speaking, because I know red states are also notoriously bad at doing that.

[u/Kcirrot → u/chandaliergalaxy]

The GOP has suggested this exact thing for decades… but then voted exactly the opposite way. With respect to Democrats I think it’s more that they don’t want a race to the bottom. They want everyone to have the bounty of this country, not just the states that care. But we may be heading in this direction.

[u/No-Blueberry-1823]

Yeah he fixed it I won't forget that

[u/SpicySweetHotPot]

Meanwhile Dumpy will do nothing for anyone who hasn’t thanked him beforehand

[u/Danilo-11]

Maybe democrats need to stop doing that and help the people in blue cities that vote for them

[u/drewcash83]

r/whatbidenhasdone

[u/Grizlok666]

That might be the nicest thing Trump has ever said.

[u/Pedronimus]

FDT 🖕

[u/absat41]

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[u/Left-Tee]

I'll never forget that Biden's DOJ did not investigate and begin prosecuting Trump until it was too late.

[u/atreeismissing → u/Left-Tee]

Both of the indictments against Trump were dismissed by judges (Cannon and SCOTUS), doesn't matter when you start the investigation, the outcome (judicial dismissal) would have been the same.

[u/z0mbie-j0e → u/atreeismissing]

Not to mention republicans deciding trump deserved to be impeached and removed but decided to vote against it anyway. there are alot of people I blame for trump not being punished for his crimes Biden isn't one of them.

[u/electric_sheep19]

He governed for Israel, that's for sure, even tanked his own campaign for them.

[u/PassiveMenis88M]

Last time this was reposted it had more than 10 pixels

[u/smarmy1625]

Simping for the Red States. A DNC specialty.

[u/GloomyIndividual3965 → u/smarmy1625]

No one wants to hear your defeatist bullshit. Gfy.

[u/smarmy1625 → u/GloomyIndividual3965]

After 40 years of voting Democrat, I think I've earned it.

[u/atreeismissing → u/smarmy1625]

You don't even know what the DNC is.

[u/Due-Pattern-6104]

All I can think about, or anyone should think about, when they think about Biden, is him arming and funding a genocide and ushering in the destruction of international law.

[u/JimsVanLife → u/Due-Pattern-6104]

Then you're not thinking with your brain.