• Alteon@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Sorry about the downvotes, but I agree with you. I like everything that Biden has done. But we need to be more progressive with economic policies and reigning in corporations. We need better government oversight on dark money in politics and I don’t see Biden doing that.

    The climate crisis should be the absolute highest priority in our news and governments. We are at risk of entire ecosystems collapsing. People are just ignoring it. We’re actively on course towards apocalyptic conditions and our biggest concerns are “what about the businesses?”.

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      1 year ago

      Yes, the climate catastrophe is a perfect example of the point I’m trying to make here. Manchin spends the first 2 years of Biden admin obstructing and providing the easy way out of delivering on every promise Biden made to woo progressives in the election. And what does Biden do? Rewards him by lifting all environmental regulations and legal hurdles on his pet project MVP natural gas pipeline, ramming it through neighboring states much to the detriment of the health and well being of the people and wildlife in the Appalachians. Why?! New pipelines are the last thing we should be investing in right now. Anybody who takes climate change seriously absolutely would not do this, but Biden does so and pats himself on the back for being some kind of master negotiator.

      Biden gets propped up as some kind of great “deal maker,” but I view his deals as anything but great. He’s dangerous, because throughout his career he’s been incredibly eager to hand republicans everything they ask for and more in order to position himself as some kind of bipartisan deal maker. Ever since the 70s bipartisan has meant one thing and one thing alone - furthering neoliberalism and the corporate agenda. Biden built his career around this. Dems are too eager to rally around this fossil just because he isn’t the orange clown, and it is costing our people dearly.