• Serinus@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    I think part of that is true and part of that is that they just don’t get enough votes to actually do things.

    Especially as just a Congressperson you can’t change everything all at once. You don’t have the same influence as a president. So you pick your battles.

    People here get disappointed they didn’t get enough done fast enough and then vote red in the next election hoping for faster change.

    Well, we got faster change. Never seen change as fast as this.

    • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      I don’t think so.

      People not voting comes down to living through the last eight years and both parties doing nothing meaningful about the fact that you’re working 100 hours a week at three jobs and all you can afford is a roach-infested studio.

      Why would you miss a badly needed day’s pay?

      As for the folks who switched to vote Trump. That was the only option for change that they had, and they knew from experience how shitty Biden/Harris were. Of course they switched.

          • EldritchFemininity@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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            1 day ago

            For the first few months of his presidency, following the tail end of the economic growth under Obama. Under Trump the economy dumped jobs and it only did well for the wealthy. Biden added like 100,000 jobs to the economy during his first 4 months.

            It’s amazing how this happens every single time. Republicans control the narrative so well that people forget that the economy consistently does better under Democrats. Every. Single. Time. It happened with Clinton and Bush. It happened with Obama and Trump. And it happened with Biden and Trump. Republicans add billions to the national debt, destroy aid programs, shrink the job market, drive up housing prices and the cost of living, and cause all that lost money to siphon to the oligarchy while lowering their taxes and raising them for everyone else. Everybody blames the Democrats for it while Republicans are in charge, and then completely miss it getting better when the Republicans are out of office.