seeing both libs and chuds taking turns freaking out over the results has been fun, but the high can only last so long

i dont kno about u guys but i dont think we’ll be doing much laughing over politics for a long time...it didnt rly sink in for me until tonight but this is literally the worst outcome, i did not consider a scenario with Biden and a GOP senate, i dont think anyone did post covid it seemed like an assumption he would win the senate if he won in a presumed landslide

this is the worst of both worlds, all the worst most insufferable ppl are validated by Biden’s “electability” over Bernie and we have no path to push for Dems to actually do something to improve ppl’s lives

it’s like Bernie/the left lost twice from both sides and it fucking sucks

  • Rojo27 [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    I don't know that I would have trusted Biden + a Dem Senate to get any change done, no matter how inconsequential it would be to everyday people. Obamacare was the crowning accomplishment of Obama + a Dem Congress, so its hard for me to believe that Biden would have done much more than that.

    What worries me more is that a Biden victory would validate the Dems "Republican Lite" strategy and having a Republican Senate will give them a built in excuse for not doing anything at all. Not only that I fear that Biden really will try and go the austerity route to appease Republicans.

    • kijib [none/use name]
      2·
      4 years ago

      the goal/hope/case for leftists voting Biden was to protest Biden and the Dems on day 1 and grassroots pressure to stop a repeat of Obama’s first 2 years

      fuck Chomsky and anyone who listened to him tbh

      • anthm17 [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Leave him alone he's 90 something.

        The people who listened to him need their brains checked.

      • Rojo27 [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Yeah, it's a naive idea to believe. Especially when you consider that Obama and the Dems brushed aside a number of grassroots movements (Occupy, BLM, Dakota Access Pipeline).

        • kijib [none/use name]
          1·
          4 years ago

          I disagree, it would have been hard, but we would know Biden was a Republican from the start unlike being fooled with fake progressive Obama and Bernie would have been a major force of leadership for the left to organize a real resistance Obama never had