Killing the public option and capitulating to republicans.

Yet we got the ACA, but i guess you prefer the old system where Americans can’t get insured if they have preexisting conditions.

He was sure able to sell weapons to netanyahu without any problem at all. Bipartisan support, even. But codifying Obergefell wasn’t a priority

Sure. Things are easier to pass with bipartisan support. Are you suggesting Obergefell would receive bipartisan support? Lol

Which is why Roe was never overturned.

Which is irrelevant to my point. Roe was a republican talking point for decades but they were never stupid enough to act on it. When they did there was immediate election fallout. We are still in the “finding out” stage and there can absolutely be more blowback from this down the road.

But they never will.

Which is why you should continue to support the Republicans. That’ll show them

You realize what you are saying doesn’t make things any better, right?

Republicans played on the fears and stupidity of the American people and promised to deliver something, anything.

Democrats are trying to explain to the American people than yes, there is a period of higher inflation and prices, but the Biden/Harris administration navigated us out of a pandemic and provided a wage increase that outdated prices from 2020 to Sept 2024. That provided all time high in wages in US history. And this was despite the typical republican obstruction from congress and the judicial. And if given another 4 to 8 years we can continue to improve on this.

And that the American people, faced with facts or feelings, chose to elect the ones that let that ruined our country by mismanaging the pandemic (which caused the economic issues)…again.

No i don’t think we should agree with this logic. I want Americans to make smarter and more rational decisions and not have selective amnesia after only 4 years. Just because everything was not fixed in 4 years does not mean we should choose the dumbest possible option just because they delivered a “feeling”

When Obama had the majority, what did Democrats spend their time and political capital on? I don’t know about you but healthcare seems pretty important and affects more people than gay marriage.

Biden used his to deal with a pandemic fallout and he was at least attempting to solve a educational loan bubble.

Keep in mind things like gay marriage and abortion were never in any immediate danger at any time. It has become socially acceptable and used as an empty threat by Republicans. That they were crazy enough to go through with it is just stupidity on their part.

Again, the democrats can be much much better, but you are absolutely ignoring the progress they made that would never have been made under Republican leadership.

Are we really going to pretend that if LGBT rights were pushed and promoted by the democrats in the 90s, the American populace was just going to accept it? The Republicans would likely have a supermajority and the presidency after Clinton’s 1st term.

Look what happened when we had 8 years with a black president.

I’m not saying the democrats did everything right, but the logic on incremental progress is correct vs tear it all down if it’s not a utopia already

You are viewing everything through the lens of now now now.

Inflation was at record lows from the housing crisis through the pandemic. It only spiked in 2021-2022. Before that, we had nearly 3 decades of sub 2% inflation. You are basing all your conclusions on 3 years worth of data instead of 30.

Look things suck financially right now. Everyone is hurting except the rich and it is absolutely stupid. But no it has not always been that way and social progress is not the reason we are where we are.

We are in financial trouble because we elected a far right party that is breaking everything. Because we would rather be cynical about the Democrats and blame them for the economic fallout of a pandemic instead of having realizing the fallout is due to abysmal mismanagement of said pandemic by the very administration we let back in power.

If you have been following politics from the Clinton era, then you wound have seen the progress and incremental change first hand especially regarding social rights.

Gay marriage didn’t exist. They were denied their existence in the military, and on TV.

We went from that to adding new letters to the ltgb alliance every few years. To pronouns and kinks like furries being accepted.

A black president was unimaginable. There were still people alive that experienced segregation.

Most of what you are listing are reactions to the progress. The bigots pushed back, and they won partly because they convinced us to be more cynical and divisive. To ignore and forget the progress that was made and spin as negatively as possible all the change we see.

Incremental change is moving forward 3 steps after falling back 2, not giving up because we couldn’t be at step 5 by now.

Much less ok to pretend both are the same