The key thing on the chart is in the middle right. The dems lowered child poverty by a huge amount but the failure their program was built-in because payments were stopping in 2021. And then the dems entirely ignored the issue until around now when it's time to vote.
This shit makes me so mad. [Redacted]
This was so frustrating, because the centrist Lib IRL friends were all telling me that this shows how practical and effective Democrats were. Because, even without adopting radical and unelectable stances like Bernie, they are causing these great reductions in poverty. And we shouldn't worry about these built-in deadlines, because all entitlements and handouts are extremely hard to claw back like Social Security, because taking them away would be so unpopular with the voters that receive them. I told them that Democrats would claw everything back and find excuses for further austerity after they decide the pandemic was over, and everyone around me was angry that I would dare say that the Democrats weren't doing everything possible to improve the lives of all Americans to the limit of what Republicans could stop them.
The "all leftists are doomed to be Cassandras" effect is real.