I'm a lot less well off than a lot of my friends, and among every group of friends, in addition to my family, I'm known as the borderline communist one.
That said, the events of the last week has had some effects that I had't anticipated. The same people who were posting about how great Bidens policies were leading up to the general election now seem pissed off about not just the Syrian airstrike, but the general lack of inaction on the $2000 checks.
Of course, to anyone on here, we expected this from Joe. But in my circle of late 20's friends who still have a ton of debt to pay off; who assured me that "we can push him left," for those who treated me like a madman for even considering not voting for Biden (I didn't).... The facade seems like its starting to crack.
We were just going to college in 2008 and didnt really follow the news. This last year has been our first real crisis. And the Democrats control everything. I wouldn't expect someone making over 100K a year to be changed by this or anything but it seems like this is different.
I dont even know what my main thesis is, but the fact that Biden approved an airstrike that cost god knows how much money before he gave money to struggling americans seems to have hit a nerve.
Idk, Obama bailing out the banks broke a lot of liberals brains temporarily at the time, probly same for your friends, they'll get over it and worship him more. The only people whose views I have watched really change due to crisis are a bunch of healthcare coworkers becoming CHUDs because of Cuomo, and also some CHUDs becoming libs because of Trump's bungling of the same crisis.
the financial crisis and its resolution did result in a significant, if not universal leftward shift among American libs. if the managers of the economy hadn't bungled it so badly at every point I doubt you'd be here right now.
Obummer's handling of the crash directly led to the occupy movement which I think some people here underrate the significance of. Bringing it up is also the easiest way to shake libs faith in their leaders. They never seem satisfied with their explanation for why he had hedge fund people in his cabinet and bailed out the banks. People hated that, it's the primary reason that obama lost so much ground after his initial surge.
I don't know; the r/worldnews thread on the Syria bombing was heavily critical of Biden (as far as Reddit goes anyway), and it was popular. That would have been borderline unthinkable under the Obama admin
I'm not expecting people to outright reject everything, but it seems like the cycle isn't continuing as expected...at least, not without some blemishes.