I wish they wouldn’t do this, because people are stupid. People are going to be like “I’ll vote for the Democrats bc they’re promising to try to fix things”, without realizing how much time and effort that’s going to take. Biden pulled off a miracle in his soft landing, yet they still voted Trump because the economy wasn’t perfect again. And they simply cannot understand that the economy will never be perfect again.
Running on “we’ll fix the economy” just sets them up for disappointment and failure, and they’re too stupid to see that.
Biden had an amazing start, with a simultaneous Covid Vaccination Program and an Economic Stimulus Program, and both were wildly successful. That should have made him one of the top 10-15 presidents in history.
Then he appointed the most feckless Republican in history to be his AG, who slow-walked Trump’s cases and gave him a two year head start to run out the clock, which is a Trump specialty. The result allowed MAGA back in power.
Now Biden will be in the bottom 10-15, along with those pre-Civil War Presidents who let it happen.
The problem is the messaging. The old farts in the Democratic party don’t know how to use social media. And even old timers here in Lemmy don’t want to admit it, social media is the new frontline to win hearts and minds of voters. Not many people watch televisions these days or read newspapers, a lot of information are coming from social media.
Social media is part of the problem for misinformation, but even in the early days of the platform, it was used to organise authentic democratic grassroots protests from Arab Spring to Occupy Wall Street. Even Obama knew the importance of social media and he was called the first social media president for a reason. The younger generations leftist politicians are realising how adept the right has been with social media, and kudos to the likes of Mamdani for co-opting back the platform to organise for the left.
I wish they wouldn’t do this, because people are stupid. People are going to be like “I’ll vote for the Democrats bc they’re promising to try to fix things”, without realizing how much time and effort that’s going to take. Biden pulled off a miracle in his soft landing, yet they still voted Trump because the economy wasn’t perfect again. And they simply cannot understand that the economy will never be perfect again.
Running on “we’ll fix the economy” just sets them up for disappointment and failure, and they’re too stupid to see that.
Biden had an amazing start, with a simultaneous Covid Vaccination Program and an Economic Stimulus Program, and both were wildly successful. That should have made him one of the top 10-15 presidents in history.
Then he appointed the most feckless Republican in history to be his AG, who slow-walked Trump’s cases and gave him a two year head start to run out the clock, which is a Trump specialty. The result allowed MAGA back in power.
Now Biden will be in the bottom 10-15, along with those pre-Civil War Presidents who let it happen.
He also refused to push to keep them
It was more denial of a genocide while providing weapons and money to continue the genocide they claimed wasn’t happening, then it was the economy
IIRC exit polls cared WAY more about the economy. Most Americans do not care about Palestinians at all.
the economy is perfect for rich people.
The problem is the messaging. The old farts in the Democratic party don’t know how to use social media. And even old timers here in Lemmy don’t want to admit it, social media is the new frontline to win hearts and minds of voters. Not many people watch televisions these days or read newspapers, a lot of information are coming from social media.
Social media is part of the problem for misinformation, but even in the early days of the platform, it was used to organise authentic democratic grassroots protests from Arab Spring to Occupy Wall Street. Even Obama knew the importance of social media and he was called the first social media president for a reason. The younger generations leftist politicians are realising how adept the right has been with social media, and kudos to the likes of Mamdani for co-opting back the platform to organise for the left.
On the right side candidates can’t not be perfect - so it’s always easy for them to vote for their candidate
On the left side candidates will never be perfect - so it’s always easy to not vote for their candidate.