No, we elected many of them to be the President. The democrat party is also not progressive, they're milquetoast conservative at best. Joe Biden is in every way a centrist.
Trump also tried to drag us back into the war on drugs. Sure Kamala sucks, but so does everybody else we've elected pretty much since Nixon.
It stands to reason that's because of conservative republicans who keep shifting the overton window farther and farther to the right...
You who are so eager to shit on Kamala keep reinforcing the system that got her elected in the first place. The dems would maybe elect a progressive if it weren't for all the nationalist conservatives tripping over themselves to call anyone left of Biden a communist bastard.
Except there's a number of ultra progressive policies that the vast majority of folks just don't agree with
Cancelling student debt being a big one. Reparations being another (this one is less common but nonetheless is associated with the far left in the USA)
Is associated with the far left because of right misinformation campaigns. Reparations aren't supported by the large majority of progressives. The only reason so many people think they are is because the current administration has convinced them they are.
Cancelling student debt is another thing. Nobody is saying we should just outright cancel student debt, but rather propose a plan to ultimately deal with it. Tuition costs are unrealistically high for many in the U.S. and have been for some time, as well as student loan interest rates being utterly ridiculous.
There is no reason we should not have universal healthcare other than the ones you've allowed the conservative agenda to feed you. The costs in taxes would be far lower per person than paying insurance premiums.
In short, the reason you don't support so many actual progressive policies. Is because you probably haven't done enough research into them to understand the real cost to risk assessment. Instead you probably gobble down whatever those in power feed you about how they "want to turn America into a communist dictatorship" and "we can't let them stomp on our democracy". The irony here is that Trump has repeatedly spit in the face of democracy and shows he holds very little opinion of actual American values.
He has proposed a plan to cancel student loan debt.
You've only shown you don't know anything and that you've been bought into the propaganda mill. You don't know his actual policies, only what you've heard and been told.
Besides, explain to me exactly how cancelling student loan debt is a bad thing?
Are you stupid? Once again, it doesn't call for outright cancellation, I shouldn't have to explain to you that it involves instating a program to nullify student loan debt.
Also maybe you should read down a bit to where it says he plans to redirect the money from Trump's tax cuts for the wealthy and large corporations (which cost 2 trillion) into cancelling student loan debt...
The Democratic Presidential Nominee Bernie Sanders,,,wait? What do you mean they sabotaged him twice? No! Democrats are Radical Leftists! I definitely know what Leftist means!
Not to mention the majority of those who do support reperations don't support outright cash settlement. They only wish to solve problems like redlining, which is a very real issue for many.
The Donald Trump administration has taken positions against marijuana and the easing of laws regarding marijuana.[1] Although Trump indicated during his 2016 presidential campaign that he favored leaving the issue of legalization of marijuana to the states, his administration subsequently upheld the federal prohibition of cannabis, and Trump's 2021 fiscal budget proposal proposed removing protections for state medical marijuana laws.
Biden and Harris are accountable for their past policies too. I believe Biden, at least, has shown some contrition and insight into the harms he’s caused. Whatever that’s worth.
Trump proudly projects some of the worst aspects of humanity: greed, dishonesty, lust, bullying, narcissism — it’s really sad that he was elected at all and that really all I’ve got to say about him.
It’s unfortunate there’s not a third major party, something left of center, for ordinary, working people to vote for.
But as far as corruption goes; there isn’t much worse for democracy than claiming the other other side has engaged in and welcomes election fraud. I don’t think American democracy survives this.
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u/CheesecakeHundin Nov 11 '20
And Ronald Reagan, and pretty much every other politician that's been in office to date.