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[–]StillLessons 11 insightful - 3 fun11 insightful - 2 fun12 insightful - 3 fun -  (6 children)

So you voted to follow the Democratic platform. Every item on your list is a vague platitude. No substance there at all to describe the details of how any of that would work. The answer is that it doesn't work. I have come up with a term I like: observational politics. What you have written in your statement is theoretical politics. But in reality, watching the Democratic machine in action over the past 50 years (and Biden is the absolute epitome of that machine), they've made things worse. That's the simple truth. You're voting for a platform which is a simplistic, overgeneralized summary of a real-world ideology which has been dominant for most of the past 30 years. During that time, our country has become consistently less free, less representative, and less peaceful. If you keep voting for mirages, this is the result. Again, this is observation, not theory. I didn't vote for either candidate because neither has any desire to address the simple imbalance behind our society's decline: we consume more than we produce. Until we decide to address that imbalance (which involves the monetary system), the decline will continue. Your platitudes just keep the wheel spinning faster.

[–]DoubleReverse[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

You can check his website and debate clips if you want a more detailed explanation.

[–]wecandobetter 5 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 3 fun -  (4 children)

You're still very much ignoring u/StillLessons excellent point - which is that if you look at what Democrats do, not what they say they'll do, they are either horribly ineffective or else they're liars, and all the years of Clinton and Obama didn't look a wit different from the Bush years in terms of war, decline in economic mobility, decline in civic institutions, and general undermining/malaise in the working class. Joe has no fucking brilliant new ideas....he's a relic of the old machinery. He has nearly 50 years of politics behind him showing what he is and what he does, and dude, he can not and will not deliver any of those vaguely nice sounding things.

[–]DoubleReverse[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Except that's really just a generalization, and even if it were true that's hugely preferable to another Trump term.

[–]wecandobetter 5 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

No, that's an actual evidence-based opinion unlike your forward looking conjecture. Trump's policies were good, even if his personality is repugnant.

[–]DoubleReverse[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

No, that's an actual evidence-based opinion

About past presidencies, not this upcoming one, which hasn't even started.

Trump's policies were good, even if his personality is repugnant.

Lol, no

[–]wecandobetter 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

You have no evidence about what kind of politician Biden is? Really? REALLY?