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If you want to secure rights, you need a big enough liberal majority to override conservative Democrats. It's that simple. It's not the Democrats taking your rights. Vote blue otherwise you're just helping to take away rights.
Agreed. America has a broad rural-inflected conservative streak. That will take time to erode. In the wrong set of circumstances, it could actually get worse, though, including apathy that lets Trump win. The US also has certain practical limitations that give rural conservatives more powerful than they'd have in a place like, say, France, where the center polis can dominate the provinces.
Even with that, people still need to know there is no path to political power that embraces Christian Nationalism and/or unvarnished 1930s authoritarianism, and I don't believe our system is so broken that we can't do that at the ballot box. Pulling the Overton Window to the left takes time, and pretending that there are not serious, systemic differences of political thought in mainstream America is, let's say, counterproductive.
And you need a candidate who isn't poop.
The system totally sucks but we should not be having this discussion during an election year after both presumptive candidates are all but locked in. Any change to the two party system should be made in isolation of any specific candidates or election, so that new and viable contenders can step up and campaign on their own merits instead of just being "not the other guy".
Well, the past 4 years we've let the GOP spread the propaganda that Biden has ruined the economy, despite global costs rising, a global recession that we somehow avoided, corporate greed, state governments increasing regressive sales tax, and Trump era tax breaks for the rich.
Progressives have been angry with Biden for not somehow forcing the Republicans (or Manchin) to do what he wants, despite the fact that we avoided a Republican driven attempt to put the U.S. into default.
Biden has been criticized for his handling of the student debt despite the fact that he has used very clever workarounds to push as much out as possible.
Biden has been attacked for being both open border and his ridiculous restrictions on immigrants when public support for increased border security is at an all time high. No way to win there.
He is judged for being old, despite being extremely knowledgeable and often times clever about how he handles Republican hurdles.
People need to look at his resume. He's probably the best president we've had in 50 years. But the news only cares that he tripped on a sandbag and there's a line of people at the border (since they reduced the number of entry points but we don't talk about that or the natural disasters that have sent people here).
A lot of it is mostly spurred by Trump just...doing whatever the hell he wanted through EOs, because they didn't notice or care that the GOP controlled both Congress and SCOTUS and thus there was really nobody to challenge the legality of those EOs. So people think "well hell, why can't Biden just order those loans forgiven regardless" or "why hasn't Biden just ordered this thing done, Trump did it".
I agree, Biden has done a remarkable job. I think his main failing is that he (like a lot of democrats) have let right wing pundits and GOP leaders drive the messaging around his presidency. At some point they need to figure out how to work the press more effectively.
Very well put