For almost a year, we nearly eliminated child hunger and child poverty in this country. This was under the child tax credits under Trump's covid policies.
I think we can both agree that Trump is the worse evil, so what does it say about Democrats that they increased child poverty compared to Trump? Why didn't they push to make the Trump child tax credits permanent?
Yes the infrastructure package passed by Biden is barely enough funds to handle the backlog of maintenance issues in our failing infrastructure.
We are the richest country on earth, we should be building high speed rail like china. We should be investing and making the infrastructure of the future. Instead we can hardly keep our 80 year old rails running without our trains exploding.
Well this is a bit outside of our scope, since most of the education defunding was done pre-2005 under Reagan and Clinton.
But yea, democrats have failed to re-fund public education. Our schools look like prisons and our teachers are paid like slaves, and you can see it in our failing test scores.
Yeah, look at what they did to Bernie and Medicare for All. They are explicitly against healthcare reform.
edit: or if Bernie is too polarizing of an example, look at how candidate Biden's #1 policy proposal was the public option, and once elected he completely dropped it.
Yes they let a procedural hurdle (the senate parliamentarian) stop them lmao.
When the republicans get stopped by the parliamentarian, they just replace the parliamentarian. When democrats get stopped by the parliamentarian, they cry and give up.
Yes, under the Biden administration we set a new record for fossil fuel extraction. Biden is giving out so many drilling permits, there are thousands that are unfilled.
We are on pace to make earth uninhabitable.
Democrats have kept the Trump tax cut scheme where the wealthy pay less, and the working class tax cuts expire. This is the ratchet effect, where republicans move the country right, then democrats normalize the rightward shift instead of pushing back.
Kamala has lowered her desired capital gains tax rate to a pathetic 28%.
The modern democratic party has adopted the positions of 2005 republicans. They might as well adopt the personnel of 2005 republicans too.
This is a wild new form of terrorist attack.
I can't think of any other time consumer goods were sabotaged in a mass fatality attack like this.
Now I'm just a tiny bit afraid my phone is about to explode in my face.
I think a lot of this comes down to the semantics of "intention".
I intended to write line 152 exactly as written. I intended to write code that compiles. But that pesky compiler imposes reality on me when it says "bug on line 152". Did I intend to write the bug?
Similarly, a politician may make a public promise on the campaign trail. They may truly intend to fulfill that promise, but political reality stops them when they are elected. There are hundreds of possible reasons for failure: poor planning and naivety, lack of political capital, or even accepting a lobbyist's bribe. Which of these cases should be considered lies?
Politicians work product is not information, it is legislation.
"Politician that never lies" is like "Developer that never writes bugs". I want to live in that world too, but it is a fantasy world.
When they campaign, they say they will codify abortion rights.
After they are elected, they dont even try.
For them, it is better if abortion rights are not secured, because it is such a great issue to motivate voters.