meh it doesnt matter. Biden tries "government that delivers", it didnt' work. instead his VP lost to one that promised cruelty. I used to be a what's good for type person. Now im just slowly giving up, and adopting a "eff you, I got mine" attitude.
The winds may change. The media was campaigning super hard for Trump, and still refuses to cover him fairly and hold him to task for the things he does, but the results are already so awful that people see through the fawning media coverage of Trump.
Don't give up hope, don't give up caring for your fellow person. A lot of fools made really bad choices, but it doesn't take many people to smarten up to drastically improve the system. You wouldn't see the Texas redistricting that's going on right now if Trump didn't know that he's completely screwed in next year's election. It's a desperate attempt to hold onto power, even if they media won't say that outright, or even dare to criticize Trump.
I try to read a balanced set of news sources, but to me you seem to view things from a much different perspective. I guess it depends on what you consider ‘the media’, for one.
Take for example two basic proposals: Harris's housing proposals, which were widely misreported inserting right-wing misinformation and assumptions about them to denigrate the proposals.
Compare that to Trump's tariff proposals, which most media just assumed he'd not be so stupid as to actually implement, and never reported on critique of them. I've talked to so many center-right people that thought "oh I didn't know this would happen. Oh well I guess it's going to be ok because it's Republicans in charge."
The media covers for Trump's weakness and Trump gives them so many things to critique that never even get discussed. Very serious things. Meanwhile the media has to make up things about Democrats in order to criticize them. It's all hugely biased.
I wonder what would happen if every last social program were repealed. People would be screwed and angry. Would they push for real change then? Are all these programs keeping America just below boiling point?
It took 1 out of every 5 americans being unemployed and starving and dying for like a decade to elect FDR and a cadre of Democrat congresspeople who promised to build a mild welfare state.
We aren't even close to that, so uh, don't expect progress anytime soon. It will take basically an entire generation growing up with a clear (clear as in impossible to disagree with and still be considered mentally sound) failure of Republican policy. It took decades of suffering and failure and maybe even world war and that was before the moronic "But Stalin did horrible things so providing for your neighbor must be a terrible thing because stalin promised that" trading cards were printed.
So yeah, strap in. We aren't all going to make it to the other side.
