Exactly. And a campaign with much misinformation, and low Dem turnout in the rust belt that year.
Absolutely agreed on this. Grassroots can't end with 2020 Election.
That's quite harsh. I think you need to explain that to the LGBTQ community who haven't forgotten that Joe Biden, practising Catholic, was the first high office politician who openly came out for gay marriage and equality, doing that at a time when Obama was himself quite cautious about it. Besides political figures far to the left of Biden have done worse and had worse policies. I don't think treating Biden as an enemy is fair, accurate, useful.Biden isn't an imperfect friend, he is an enemy
Agree with this absolutely. But again that doesn't mean Biden is the enemy. The whole discourse about us trying to understand Trump supporters and so on, that's false and dangerous. But we absolutely should understand the points of view in the left of center. Social Democrats and others should understand liberals, like Bernie and AOC absolutely do. You can do that without thinking of them as the enemy and so on.The public simply being bystanders and not putting pressure on him to pass progressive policies for the next 4 years is bordeline suicidal...
It's precisely because the Obama years were so good, they ended up with Trump. Again Trump voters are white supremacists who could not countenance the success, achievements, and legacy of the first black President. Pure and simple.If the Obama years were so good then they wouldn't have ended with Trump.
Obamacare had multiple sources, the most obvious is the program passed in MA when Mitt Romney was governor. That law was passed by Democrats in MA Legislature. Romney signed it because the Dems had majorities to override veto. In fact Romney vetoed 8 provisions, and the Dems overturned 6 of those vetoes. Because of the association with Romney a lot of people think Obamacare was a Republican plan but that's not exactly the case. Healthcare is a long dream in US Politics and has been approved across the spectrum and factions. FDR announced health care as a policy in his last newsreel and had he not passed away, maybe it would have happened in the '40s. LBJ wanted to make it happen too. Then Richard Nixon became interested in (Keynesian Moderate deep down, Wingnut on the outside) it. In the Clinton years, HRC was very interested in it and wanted to put a health program that was subsequently to the left of what ACA became but the GOP stopped that. The point is that Healthcare was extremely difficult to pass, and as unambitious and quaint as the ACA is compared to what FDR/LBJ and even Nixon had in mind, leave alone the NHS in England, it was still a great achievement in legislation. If a man like Lyndon B. Johnson, a schoolyard bully by nature, couldn't get it done. If someone like Nixon couldn't get it done, then I don't know how you can judge Obama so low for actually being the guy who did get it done.Without a movement to put pressure on him, Biden like Obama will still adhere to a broken healthcare system
(Obamacare was a right-wing reform from the 90's)
When Joe Biden said, "This is a big f--king deal" he was quite right. Obama fulfilled one of FDR's dreams.
And I am for that. Push Biden to the left, support progressives and so on. Just remember that the real bad guys are not the Democrats. Obama's Presidency didn't have a crisis that saw 230,000 people dead in 8 months, most of them poor, from minority communities. In fact when this is over, Trump's body count would have exceeded the numbers of Obama's entire drone campaign and his entire Presidency.Point is, don't just sit around for 4 years and hope that Biden brings real change. You and everyone else have to essentially bully him into doing it.