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The Biden administration and Dems have done a terrible job communicating their accomplishments on all of these issues but they have significant accomplishments on many of them - take health care. Did you know that we just reached a record low number of uninsured people? (hhs.gov/about/news/2023…) - not by sheer luck but through policies …
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The Biden administration and Dems have done a terrible job communicating their accomplishments on all of these issues but they have significant accomplishments on many of them - take health care. Did you know that we just reached a record low number of uninsured people? (https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2023/08/03/new-hhs-report-shows-national-uninsured-rate-reached-all-time-low-2023-after-record-breaking-aca-enrollment-period.html) - not by sheer luck but through policies like enhanced subsidies? The administration is also doing things to lower drug costs, e.g., through the Inflation Reduction Act giving Medicare the power to negotiate these prices.
They also just set a record in appointing 200 of the most diverse set of progressive judges ever - the most women, the most minorities - to protect all these rights: https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/12/04/most-of-bidens-appointed-judges-to-date-are-women-racial-or-ethnic-minorities-a-first-for-any-president/
Please do a little research before dramatically concluding that the administration has “no plan” on anything. Such sweeping statements are custom-made for social media where facts don’t matter, but in real life, facts actually do make a difference.
Biden is pro-life and has a personal (and political) aversion to abortion rights. Fact.
“Progressive judges” don’t do much good when the deck is stacked against us with SCOTUS so heavily weighted Republican. He could have expanded SCOTUS, but he didn’t because he doesn’t want to, fact.
The judge who okay’d the Microsoft/Activision merger was a corporate-friendly Biden appointee. Fact. I wonder if she’s one of the progressive judges you’re talking about?
Biden is a lifelong Zionist with a strong imperialist bias and he’s never met a cop he didn’t like, fact.
I could go on. My point is, we have plenty to be upset with Biden about. He is not a great or even good president, and I just wish you’d let people live with the assessment they’ve come to themselves. You think we haven’t done research when the reason we don’t like him is because we’ve done a *lot* of research.
If people have to google high and low for good things Biden has done, and they don’t feel the effects in realtime, that’s Biden’s problem, not the left’s. Extremely slow and half-steady is going to lose this race for Joe, and it’s going to be his own fault if he does.
Biden is certainly not perfect and I’m not defending on Gaza or other areas where I disagree with him. But you’re only seeing and exaggerating the negative. You mention an antitrust case without noting that this has been the most aggressive administration on antitrust since the 70s, with Lina Khan at the FTC suing titans like Live Nation, Kroger, Amazon, Google, etc.: https://news.bloomberglaw.com/mergers-and-acquisitions/biden-antitrust-enforcers-set-new-record-for-merger-challenges.
On abortion, it’s not fair to talk about where he was on the issue a few decades ago, we’re in 2024 and the administration is taking many actions to defend the right to abortion and contraception as they are under severe attack from Republicans: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/biden-leans-into-abortion-contraception-as-2024-campaign-strategy-takes-shape/ar-BB1h4JO3.
One can find higher standards to judge him by, but I think that the political reality of America over the past few decades is the most honest lens and he is the most progressive president since LBJ by many measures.
I think the LBJ comparisons are telling here. both are presidents who will mostly be remembered by how many brown children they bombed overseas. he was half a century before my time but even I know the old chant, "hey hey LBJ, how many kids did you kill today?"
If I went my whole life driving a car that topped off at 10mph, but then I got a car that could go up to 20mph, I could say that the second car is the fastest I’ve driven since my first car. But—I still couldn’t necessarily call either car “fast.” In fact, the new car is so slow that it’s practically worthless.
So, yeah, it’s easy to call Biden “the most progressive president since LBJ” when the standard for what passes for progressive in this country is so embarrassingly low.