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[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 42 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (14 children)

Biden’s legacy isn’t going to be about what he did. It’s going to be about what he, and by extension, the Democratic Party, which as president and a member of said party, he is the de facto leader of, didn’t do:

  • “fixing the economy”, but not actually paying attention to or addressing the actual problems and lived experiences of anyone lower than “upper class” on the social rungs
  • appointing the most absolutely limpdick AG who could not be bothered to meaningfully prosecute any one of the primary players in a fucking coup attempt
  • breaking his promise to not shoot for a second term
  • refusing to step back from the campaign for far, far too long, when it was clear to everyone on all sides of the political spectrum that he was far too old and senile to effectively campaign anymore
  • ignoring the fact that a ton of Americans - particularly younger ones, and left leaning ones - are absolutely and completely sick of the gerontocracy he’s a central part of
  • failing to lean away from neoliberalism and corporate-friendly policies that are pissing the vast majority of voters off
  • refusing to stop supplying the apartheid - and now, openly genocidal - leadership regime in Israel with advanced military supplies
  • being mentally unable to break away from a very ossified and outdated view of Russia, and appeasing Putin instead of meaningfully supporting Ukraine
  • we can keep going, but I’ll stop here for now

Overall: Biden will be remembered as a mashup of the worst moments of Neville Chamberlain, Paul von Hindenburg, and Herbert Hoover (except there’s no FDR waiting in the wings, and who knows if we’ll actual get another free fucking election from here on out). Yes: he did a lot of good stuff, but at the same time, he dropped the ball so badly on so many other fronts that were and are absolutely fucking crucial. He’s going to be remembered for the latter part, not the former.

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 14 points 7 months ago

Also the more charitable thing he didn't do:

  • Communicate effectively the good he has done

The Dems (Obama) bragged about not putting their name on the pandemic relief checks FFS.

We now know whether you voted for Kamala or Trump was widely a function of whether you consume political news. Biden failed to use the pulpit of the presidency to break through to "low-information" voters. Sure we can blame the average person for not being masochistic enough to wade through the news, but where do you go from there?

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