People Aren’t Crazy for Thinking the Biden Economy Is Bad
People Aren’t Crazy for Thinking the Biden Economy Is Bad
There are many good reasons to be unhappy with the economy today: by conventional social democratic metrics like union density, welfare generosity, and public ownership levels, the economy is not in good shape, and recent trends have been mixed at best.
Yeah, no shit we're not crazy, our economy has been absolutely dogshit for nearly two decades.
Yeah this is not a specifically Biden problem and headlines like that are just gonna hand voters to the other guy. Cheers
Not even the most news-illiterate, feckless, gullible voter on Earth will have their entire political trajectory changed by one headline, and NO ONE who is not already extremely politically-engaged is ever even going to see a Jacobin headline.
Moreover, whether you like it or not, the economy being bad (thanks to Capitalism and Corporatism) will be blamed on Biden by politically-disengaged people, and it's important to understand and acknowledge that reality rather than just trying to convince people that the economy isn't bad right now (which is what the headline is about).
A bunch of Democratic strategists have been out doing op-eds in their usual publications crowing that the economy is totally great, akshually! and pushing that narrative to ignore the reality that people feel in their bank accounts is just putting Trump in a stronger position come election time, because you know he is going to accuse Biden of causing the economic hardships that people are feeling.
So really, Democrats have 2 options:
- continue denying or sidestepping discussions about the economic pain points happening right now
- actually start having serious discussions about the problem with unchecked corporate greed/ Capitalism
And before you say, "that will just hand the Right the 'Socialist' talking point they've always wanted"... guess what! They already claim he's a socialist now, and he'd be better off pushing the narrative that he wants an FDR-style economy that reigns in corporations than just limply pretending everything it great.
Right now the pro-union, anti-corporation sentiment is easily the highest it's been in 40 years, and to just let that fall by the wayside would be a huge mistake, that I have no doubt Biden will absolutely make. Biden has no one to blame for his current unpopularity but Biden.
Yea, we're unhappy about it. Like loamimprovement said it's been pretty shitty for a couple of decades, are you saying Biden in particular is to blame for this deep hole corpratists and politicians of yesteryear put us in?
Heavy handed photo choice. Generously cropped in bust of Kennedy recalling a youthful and prosperous era behind bent over POTUS sneezing or something. Done, we have our narrative.
It’s a thousand times better than anything under Trump.