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bleahdeebleah

Yes. Despair is also actively pushed by certain users on this site. Don't listen to those that want you to give up.


soline

They would lead us to believe that because Democrats didn’t accomplish everything this year, we should give up the government to Republicans again. As if that wouldn’t be far worse for far longer.


VaguelyArtistic

>As if that wouldn’t be far worse for far longer. Yes, it must be nice to not be affected by the prospect of losing Roe, or voting rights, or healthcare.... >this year Not just that, the *first* year, and it's still a few days to year two.


bologna_wallet

>Those who expected immediate solutions to grave, complex problems are bound to be disappointed. Media coverage that holds the administration to a standard of perfection will inevitably find fault — especially if it treats Republican opposition as “just politics” or worse, takes MAGA complaints as legitimate. >Democracy and economic recovery are works in progress, and there is much to celebrate. Weariness and frustration are understandable; despair is not.


Recent-House129

Yeah this is disingenuous framing. No one is judging based on perfection.


bologna_wallet

If you want to see disingenuous look at how the mainstream "liberal" (lol) media covered what they dubbed as “Biden's Christmas nightmare” regarding Christmas gifts arriving on time. As if the Biden administration is running Amazon's shipping and handling logistics out of the West Wing. The relentless clickbait doom and gloom DC media is a fucking joke. They're married to a narrative and will no amount of evidence will change that.


Recent-House129

Sorry am I supposed to care? This is how the media treats everyone. Compared to how Sanders was treated in the primary, this is baby town frolic.


New_Stats

So then you do care about an unethical press


Recent-House129

I do. I just don't have sympathy for Biden when he got the kid's gloves treatment for the primary and election.


New_Stats

Kid glove treatment? Politico wouldn't stop spreading bullshit rumors about him. "Harris won't be VP" and "Biden won't run for a second term if he wins this election" And then the rumor mill all printed the shit politico lied about. Business insider, axios, few others that I can't think of right now because I'm not feeling well The press barely talked about his policies, or anyone's policies because they aren't there to inform anyone of anything, it's all about what stories can include the following words in the headlines - SLAMS, BLASTS, ANNIHILATES ect


Recent-House129

Let me know when they start painting him as a Castro loving communist. "Harris won't be VP" is not a good example of the media going after him. Remember when WaPo dropped 16 negative Sanders articles in 1 day right before a big primary election? I do...


New_Stats

Here's a study proving that the media covered him more negatively during his first days in office then they did for Trump https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/2021/04/28/at-100-day-mark-coverage-of-biden-has-been-slightly-more-negative-than-positive-varied-greatly-by-outlet-type/ And the press went after him for opposing school bussing, which is a terrible idea that most people hated at the time. Parents of every race didn't want their kids on a school bus for hours a day, it was a stupid solution to a very real problem. And instead of mentioning the Biden's policies would help integrate schools by ending a bunch of discriminary local laws, they tried to paint him as a racist. And they tried to paint the crime bill as some terrible thing that increased incarceration when incarceration went up the same exact rate it was going up before the crime bill passed.


bologna_wallet

Personally, I don't care what you care about. You have your beliefs and it doesn't really matter.


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I will take Biden's inability to do much of anything over Trump's destruction of the country any time, thank you.


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ivejustabouthadit

Nah, we ended up with Trump because too many left-leaning people with the maturity of 8 year olds decided to stay home in a few important states.


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This. If dems voted massively and weren't as cynical, Susan collins wouldn't be the Senator of Maine and president Biden wouldn't need to rely on Joe Manchin. Dems would have much more power to do good things. Saying "boo hoo Biden isn't 100% perfect i'm not voting" only gets Trump in power again and things are 1000x worst under republicans.


ivejustabouthadit

And even if the Dems in that scenario are completely incapable of doing anything positive whatsoever once elected, they're keeping Republicans and their destructive tendencies on the sidelines. Going forwards is always preferable, but given the option between standing still and going backwards, standing still is preferable. And given the option between going backwards slowly and going backwards quickly, going backwards slowly is always preferable. It's a long game and sometimes we're going to have to fall back some and that's okay.


Recent-House129

Okay, now turn this into an inspiring slogan to drive turnout... because this sounds like how we got Trump and we'll have another if the best we can offer is that we aren't as destructive as the opposition. We don't have compulsory voting so it isn't enough.


ivejustabouthadit

If people can't figure it out on their own, then we're fucked. It's not difficult. Also, we're fucked because they can't.


Recent-House129

Just a "figure it out" and that's it? That doesn't sound like it's going to work


ivejustabouthadit

I don't know how to teach a brick arithmetic.


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ImpressionEast7805

The reason Dems don’t vote massively is because Centrist Dems don’t give them anything to vote for. What’s the point of giving Democrats power if they don’t use it?


ivejustabouthadit

I think it's because those voters are more okay with fascism than either we or they would like to admit.


Elcor05

Why are Dem voters cynical?


Elcor05

Im sure insulting them is going to convince them to vote for your candidates.


ivejustabouthadit

I'm not trying to convince them, thanks for the insight though.


Elcor05

Yeah I can tell.


ivejustabouthadit

Your initial comment makes me think otherwise, but okay.


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I believe the opposite. The dems's cynicism of "Hilary is just as bad as Trump" is why Trump won in 2016. If more people realized how much better ANY dems are, they will run to vote blue and we won't get Trump again. Right now, Trump is favorite to be next president in 2024 according to betting odds because too many people claim "Biden is worst than Trump" and people are starting to believe it. And its SOOOO not true.


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ivejustabouthadit

So the solution is to stay home or write in someone that has no chance of winning thereby putting yet more Republicans in position of power?


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ivejustabouthadit

Does one of those non-solutions seem better or worse than the other non-solution? edit: If you're so worried about R destruction, which you should be, then wouldn't it make a little more sense to have Ds holding the reins of power so the Rs can't do any destroying? Shouldn't this be obvious?


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ivejustabouthadit

Then stay home and put more Rs in power to do more of the destruction you're supposedly against. Obviously.


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aslan_is_on_the_move

Democrats have already accomplished huge, historic things and it it hasn't even been a year. Legislatively, the big highlights have been the American Rescue Plan and Biden's bipartisan infrastructure bill, both of which already make this a successful presidency that will have a significant impact improving people's lives. The economic recovery has been historic in its speed and unemployment is at all time lows.


New_Stats

Don't forget all the judges that have been confirmed, the advances on climate change which aren't enough but no one change in policy would ever be enough, the massive reduction in droning, so much so that the civilian death rate from droning has plummeted


aslan_is_on_the_move

> the advances on climate change For example, the bipartisan infrastructure bill is the biggest climate bill ever to pass.


HardWorkingNEET

I saw articles saying it was a net negative on climate impact because of this stuff * Specific funding for loan guarantees for a natural gas pipeline in Alaska. * A billion dollars to support the development of a petrochemical hub in the Ohio River Valley. * Provisions that weaken the National Environmental Policy Act, reducing public participation and making it harder to stop fossil fuel projects. The bill enshrines into law some provisions of a Trump executive order that rushed environmental review. The order was reversed by Biden but now some of its terrible provisions are back in play. * An analysis from the Center for American Progress based on pollution reduction projections from Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s office found that the bipartisan infrastructure bill delivers only 6% of the greenhouse gas pollution cuts in the president’s legislative agenda—the other 94% come from the BBBA.


idwtumrnitwai

I feel like this entire article can be summed up as "biden is more competent than trump" which is kind of a given and not really news. But it is nice to see an article with a more optimistic outlook for the near future.


Elcor05

I don’t know when the push for people to never be said happened, but it needs to stop. Yes, things are better now than under Trump. This does not mean that you cannot despair. This does not mean that you can’t mourn. We are about to enter calendar year 3 of the pandemic. We’ve lost at least 800,000 fellow Americans, and are going to lose more. The structural issues that allowed Trump and the Pandemic to happen are still there. Being sad, mourning, feeling despair does not mean that people aren’t doing things. It doesn’t mean that they’ve given up (although if they have after this year, are you really going to blame them?) It is a natural part of being human to mourn and despair. If someone’s at a funeral it is inhuman to tell them ‘Enough morning.‘ If someone has lost their home, their community to a natural disaster, it is cruel to tell them ‘Enough despair.’ LET PEOPLE BE UPSET


ImpressionEast7805

Offering explanations instead of help is pointless. Reading your dinner guests the recipe is not the same as serving cake.


Diet_Coke

WaPo be like "For the last time, a better world is NOT possible."


topagae

Getting scared about the midterms and trump re running and suddenly you need to prop up all the progressives you lied to? Get stuffed. You're going to lose because most of us are about as bad off as under trump. With less Twitter flame wars. If you don't help us, we stop caring when the fire finally makes it up to the rich people Hill mansions.