In 08 I was a little too young to be politically active but I always understood that Obama convinced a ton of people that things were gonna change, and was able to put a friendly face on the American Empire.

Nowadays theres definitely a lot of people just happy that the orange man is off the television, but sleepy joe has negative charisma and hes already doing really bad with the stimulus bill and is openly refusing to reverse trump policies like closing the camps.

Am I accurate in this or am i just trapped in my commie safe space?

  • DetroitLolcat [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    This administration sucks but it's leagues better than the flaming train wreck of 2009. People really do not remember how shitty and conservative the Democrats were in 2009 compared to now. Obama bragged about putting three Republicans in his cabinet, the most nominees from the opposing party of any president in history. Imagine if Trump just let the Democrats run one-seventh of the government for no reason.

    At this point in 2009 Obama had asked Bush's defense secretary to retain his post in Obama's administration. Imagine if Biden had just told the Trump guy "hey you're doing a great job wanna stick around." Rahm Emanuel was Chief of Staff. Larry Summers, a right-wing austerity hawk, was Obama's top economist. Eric Holder, A Reagan appointee who defended Purdue Pharma, was the attorney general. Arne Duncan, a notorious union-busting school CEO ran Education. None of those ghouls (except Eric Holder) would be confirmable today because the left is powerful enough to block them.

    The Democrats of 2009 would not have passed anything close to resembling Biden's covid relief bill, which was still not enough as it was. The Democrats, while still not nearly left enough, have moved leaps and bounds to the left of where they were in 2009. It is not Biden apologia to admit this. In fact, it is Obama apologia to deny it.