Only 14% of US voters say Joe Biden has made them better off
FT-Michigan Ross poll underlines president’s struggle to overcome impact of inflation on voters’ economic outlook
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He will not get my vote in the primary (which Biden will likely win), but I'm still voting for him in the General, because if he loses, I know for certain I will not be better off when Republicans inevitably enact the policies entailed in Project 2025.
ETA: Unless by some miracle he loses the primary, in which case, I will be voting for the not-fascist.
Much appreciated. I've started taking some time to read over Project 2025. It's truly terrifying, not just for the US but for the world.
Biden is currently aiding and abetting a literal genocide and US libs keep pretending he's not a fascist
He's not. Genocide is not a prescript of Fascism. Pretending he's a fascist for this one thing is needlessly reductive and broadens the meaning of Fascism to the point that it doesn't mean anything useful at all.
You know who is a fascist? Donald Trump, who on Veterans Day called people on the Left "vermin" to be rooted out, mimicking Hitler's own words about Jews. Now, explain to me how he and Biden are similar enough to be considered cut from the same cloth.
He’s not a fascist but that doesn’t mean he’s really any better than one. The logic Biden is using to defend US support of genocide abroad is the same logic fascists use to oppress domestic populations. In either case, people are needlessly murdered. The only difference is where it’s taking place.
Funniest part of that chart is the highest metric is Democrats saying "No change."
I guess in their mind, Biden's promise of "nothing will fundamentally change" was kept!
Honestly with the way the US stands today, "no fundamental change" is probably the best we could hope for. Of course, I think things are generally worse now than when he was elected, but I don't blame him for the problems of crony capitalism, a completely dysfuncional congress, a Supreme Court beholden to private donors, and a national constituency that seems to shed brain cells like trees shed leaves in autumn.
Don't worry guys, we just need 5 more years of genocide joe Joey our friendly uncle sam, hopefully he'll listen to us instead of voting off crime bills! Or voting to send weapons to bomb & kill, Or breaking up railway strikes, or passing corporate lobbyist laws in his home state Delaware, or giving money to the MIC, or giving more subsidies to corporations, or removing all the welfare benefits after covid-19.
You know what? This gag is unfunny, fuck joe biden supporters, you middle class shits would rather have a concentration camp in your garden rather than socialist reforms
If you have a plan to unite the Left, which includes many demographics of varied ideologies (not just socialists), I'm sure the political strategists would love to hear it. However, you will lose to the tribalistically-united Right every time if you act like your ideas are the only valid ones worth hearing.
Nah, they'd make their mayors put the concentration camps in the trenches 'cause they can't have ANYTHING fuckin up the sanctity of their backyards. Source? All that anti-homeless architecture horseshit they glaze over
In a collapsing country on a planet being fed into the ovens by the ruling class, this is actually a more optimistic poll result than I would expect. Anyone other than the .01% feeling they are "better off" is surprising.
Currently I'm worse off because of all the construction on numerous infrastructure projects in my city. But I'll be much better off when they're done. Unfortunately, it will take some time to realize the gains of some of the larger bills that were passed.
Cannot access the article, but the headline sounds like it’s a financial outcome. I find that to be a highly dubious premise. Surely there is more to life than “having more money”?
Not in capitalist society there's not; and you're smoking crack if you try to tell me there is in today's labor conditions. As it is, that old racist motherfucker still owes me about 600 bucks.
If you're barely scraping by, having less money can significantly affect quality of life, or at least percieved quality of life.
It’s like the old quote (I’ll completely fuck up I am sure) but nobody appreciates just how expensive it is to be poor.
I don't mind not being better off when the alternative is fascism. I'd prefer to be better off, but I'll take status quo.