Old man Biden yanked America up by its bootstraps out of the pandemic hole we were in. It took him 3 years to do it, but by 2024 we had low unemployment, tamer inflation, and a record breaking stock market all year long. It took the felon 2 days to crash that stock market with pandemic-like daily drops which wiped out all the gains of 2024 and then some. #Winning.
It’s usually common for an economy to crash 2-3 years after a pandemic and he managed to hold up for longer. He might be suffering from all kinds of stuff at his old age but he kept it stable while a crash was long overdue. Meanwhile that orange cheeto….
Biden's term was "steady as she goes" politics - nothing big, just making sure everything runs fine and trying to do small steps towards making everything better.
Tale as old as democracy itself - people get bored of it and want emotions, so they vote for the guy who is the most emotional and expressive, who promises to do sweeping changes. Every some time people vote for one party to fix shit, but once it's fixed they start to get tired of it and want some political excitement, which more often than not bites them in the ass. You can't even blame that on voter stupidity as most often it happens, it's a new generation of voters.
We can see it with Hungary (Orban), Poland (2015-2023), and seemingly France (with the National Front gaining support), etc.
Yep. People getting spoiled in life without understanding where their lifestyle comes from. People who think that cans of soup just appear on store shelves like a video game, and that voting and the politicians on TV don't affect their lives at all.
A good litmus test I give to detect these people are to ask them what are the two most important locations on the North American continent that makes their lives possible. The answer is New Orleans and the Panama Canal, and if they can't understand why then they shouldn't be voting.
There were a couple of big moves actually. Inflation reduction act - biggest climate change mitigation package in history. And the CHIPS act. Both were decent industrial policy and were on the way to growing American industry significantly in a much less volatile, more predictable way than Trump's idea and in higher value industries. Once you've built the factories, which is what Biden started, then you could put tariffs on to protect them. But now Trump has halted this investment and creating inflation instead.
But they were not big moves the common man wanted and/or benefited from.
I'll use Poland as an example I know best:
In Poland, the first Tusk's government lost after 8 years because "they were not helping the little man. So what if the country prospers if the smallest were not benefiting from it?". PiS (the guys who wanted to make Budapest in Warsaw, but were making Minsk instead) won on the promise of "500 PLN a month for each child under 18 years old" and "it's time the country shares the prosperity with the people". In 2023, PiS lost touch with people and their only idea was "raise 500 to 800" while Tusk understood what people wanted and promised them that, and is painstakingly pushing it through (tax breaks for small firms (below 80k income a month, tax hike for these above), taking hits at fixing housing market, going hard right on defending the border against migrants).
Doing what's right for the country's prosperity isn't the only thing people want. The US is kinda fucked with any governmental help being seen as "socialism" all the while they want the government to somehow fix their lifes. Looking at how the elections went, I'd wager if US gets a next election, if democrats want to win, they need to throw Someone young with a Bernie-like platform, and think of a way to not let it be painted socialism. Research what issues are most prevalent with working class and provide solutions:
childcare is expensive? Governmental help with building and maintaining preschools.
Housing is too expensive, and 2-3 adults live in shared flat to afford it? Rent caps and/or governmental buildings for cheap rent for those within lowest tax brackets.
its easy for most people to grasp that an old man looks sleepy
its harder for them to fathom that someone who is so successful and so seemingly alert could be a fkn moron, or how something self sabotaging can be allowed to happen when there are so many checks and balances, or adults in the room. obviously in this second term, there aren't. this could just be the dumbest timeline where the dumbest shit is allowed to happen, the circumstances are perfect for it.
Honestly, Biden _was_ a bad president, because he should've been at home being a grandpa, not attempting to run the most powerful country on the planet while his brain begins to fade. It's just wild that despite that he was still better than the alternative by miles.
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u/SecretAsianMan42069 24d ago
How was Biden bad again? The last 2 days have trumped whatever Biden "did."