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Cake day: January 4th, 2024

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  • The reason the right has been kicking liberal asses lately is their unity. That unity was mostly due to the torrent of dark money from billionaire foundations like the Koch network pushing an agenda, but none the less they moved this country so far right it will take decades to change things. The left needs to learn to stop attacking the few people we still have in power so hard and look at the bigger picture. You will never get progressive change quickly, it takes a long coordinated movement. It’s an election year and we know our options are Biden against the anti-thesis of progressivism. Lets rally now and push Biden for change after the election when we have ensured we elected someone who could actually listen.


  • Saving a drowning man doesn’t have people trying stand between you and the drowning man. Just because a new president comes to power doesn’t mean he just gets to change things from previous administrations on a whim. Those powers that helped see it pass don’t just disappear. Government is fights and compromises and those take time. You deal with the other party and special interests paying whoever they can to move forward or obstruct anything to their advantage. Right or wrong it’s reality of government. Changes in government rarely are bi-partisan enough to pass quickly.






  • Policy takes years to implement and typically isn’t that visible in the short term. Considering the overwhelming opposition he has had from the Republican house, a conservative supreme court, and a billionaire lobbying and foundation network with vast political power, he’s done a surprising amount. So many people think presidents have unilateral powers that they just don’t in our system of government. These are the same checks that kept Trump from enacting some of his wilder flights of insanity in office. You can’t measure government change the way you stated because government just moves more gradually. Sure, so much more needs to be done, but expecting one president to course correct it as drastically in less than 4 years as would take to be blatant to your daily life is unrealistic. Trump gutted the EPA and other regulatory agencies in his presidency as much as he could get away with. Budget cuts and weakened power can’t just be reversed overnight. So Biden had to undo the damage then attempt to broaden their powers while the supreme court ruled on limiting them in his presidency. It’s not as black and white as you state. Biden isn’t perfect on a lot if issues, but he’s done way more for the environment than I thought he could with the head winds he’s facing. I will say this, they need to better job getting the things that have done out to people. With a news media who is owned by the same companies fighting change and the fractured state of information delivery in general, that will be a challenge.