But averages don’t tell the full story: Middle-income and lower-income Americans’ wages stopped outpacing inflation last year, according to Bank of America.
As if the first go around wasn’t telling enough. But, hey, at least the plutocracy has another tax cut that they bought and paid for.
Why should the government care since we showed them we didn’t in the last election.
Elections have consequences
“The voters cannot be failed, they can only fail the government.”
In a democracy or republic with full voting rights, that’s EXACTLY how it works.
People get the government they vote for. No more, no less.
I’m angry at the politicians, of course. But not NEARLY as angry as I am at my countrymen who PUT them there.
For as much as we constantly hear nonsense bullshit about “blood to water the tree of liberty”, the SINGLE most important aspect of being a citizen of a representative government is being informed about things and making good decisions about your representatives. It’s your FIRST duty as a citizen. But it’s clearly too high a bar for most people to even attempt to meet.
I’m no fan of the CCP, but when they say that average people can’t be trusted to steer the ship of society, I have to say reality is making a compelling case.
Well the voters aren’t going to do anything about it anyway so this is a moot point.
Biden didn’t raise the minimum wage, either.
Yes, I know there are “reasons”, but they’re all bullshit and could have been overcome by, say, an FDR or even a Clinton.
There’s a reason Democratic voter turnout was so low with last election, all these little reasons over the decades add up. Elections have consequences, indeed.
Independents are now up to 40% of voters, the major parties are bOtH losing voters (30% each now, new low)
Biden also slow walked us into this by not going after Trump at all in the name of bipartisanship.
Biden will always be in the bottom 15 of presidents for not crushing MAGA as a National Security Threat after the Insurrection and hundreds of stolen documents, and allowing them to rise and take power again. Trump should have been executed for his treason, or at least put in prison for the rest of his life.
And they had the Epstein Files, too.
Unforgivable political malpractice.
Does nothing to defeat the accusations at all of being the paid political opposition party. He could solidified a second term or at least put Kamala on stronger footing if he had done what he was supposed to. Instead we got luke warm neo-liberal policies with some moderate ones that probably have been repealed at this point.