• RangerJosey@lemmy.ml
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      5 months ago

      Wouldn’t call it a majority. But it’s a bloc that dems cannot win without. That bloc has also been lied to for literally our entire lives. Grown jaded. And won’t vote for empty promises anymore.

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              5 months ago

              Why 5? But sure I’ll play your game.

              1. Support for universal health care or medicare for all. Biden said he’d veto medicare for all if it came to his desk. Obama wanted it.

              2. Two state solution, keeping Netenyahu on a leash, and sucking off AIPAC. Pretty different performances. Netenyahu and Obama hated each other, while Biden did whatever Netenyahu wanted, when he wanted, to whatever degree he wanted.

              3. While we’re at it, Biden acted in support of war crimes and violated the geneva conventions and Obama didnt. Seems like a solid policy difference.

              4. Afghanistan. Obama trusted what his generals said about pulling out being bad for the region. Biden just wanted out.

              5. Corporations and the rich as the dems almost sole focus under Biden while Obama ran on yes we can and hope for the people, and bread and butter issues. Biden didnt give a crap about the people. Obama centered his platform around youth. Biden targetted the elderly and the rich and lost the youth.

              6. Biden called the far right racists his best friends and insisted on bipartisanship for bipartisanships sake, and Obama did not.
                https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/joe-biden-didn-t-just-compromise-segregationists-he-fought-their-n1021626

              7. in the budget cliff showdowns Obama was all in favor of going over the fiscal cliff and letting the tax cuts for the rich expire, and Biden was not and went behind Obama back.

              8. Obama pushed immigration policies which favored paths to citizenship for immigrants, where Biden locked the border down trump style.

              9. Obama beleived in civil rights and was hailed as the best civil rights president since LBJ. Biden was a fascism fetishist who increased cop funding after defund+reallocate came to Washington, and who authored civil asset forfeiture laws which are blatantly unconstitutional.

              10. Obama cut military spending and got pilloried for it. Biden increased it.

              I wanted so much more from Obama and he turned out to be more conseravtive than I would have hoped, but Obama looks like Ghandi compared to Biden. And Biden looks more like Strom Thurmond and Donald Trumps love child.