I'd say because Dems have been spending so much time telling everyone how horrible Trump is, that they forgot to mention why anyone might also consider Biden good
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A good government is a boring government. I don't want SLAMS in a congressional meeting. I want boring questions about tiny little details on spreadsheets nobody reads except for interns and wonks.
I genuinely feel like the climate is just a no win situation from a political perspective. Any real solution has pretty serious tradeoffs so either you take small low impact steps which are panned as being too little too late, or you take bold steps that hurt some significant group economically.
If the group you hurt is millionaire oil executives, I wouldn't be too concerned.
I mean same, but inevitably it will also hurt everyone who buys oil which is pretty much everyone in America. Still it has to happen
They can get onboard with renewables themselves. Anyone who bemoans change instead of adapting doesn't deserve our sympathy.
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People are scared of saying good things about Biden because it makes them a target for tankies and republicans.
You don't see any irony in re-using Nixon's "silent majority" like trump did in 2016?
For that to be true, you have to disregard all polling, which is sadly something I've seen people doing.
Because you don't just have to explain his lack of support on social media and real life, you have to explain away his lack.of support in anonymous polling and why "he's not trump" is consistently the most popular reason for voting Biden.
He just doesn't have support, people just want to stop trump.
I see you’re new - welcome to Lemmy! If you see any tankies or republiQans you don’t want to see, block them. It’s pretty easy.
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Because, like a lot of Biden policies, they are wins on paper but have little to no impact on voters daily lives.
Example:
"The Biden administration is the first to embrace the goal of reaching net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by midcentury in order to stabilize global temperatures at 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming.* That means that the Biden administration’s interim target—cutting U.S. carbon pollution to half of peak levels by 2030—requires reducing annual carbon pollution nearly four times faster than the Obama administration’s interim target did.** Ambitious policy goals drive ambitious policy change."
Sounds great, right? But all he did was set a goal. Are we making progress to that goal? 🤷♂️ Is that goal even achievable? 🤷♂️ 2030 is only 6 years away, how are we doing right now? 🤷♂️
It's meaningless babble to claim this as an achievement if you can't point to a tangible change in the numbers.
No matter who wins in 2024, they aren't going to be President in 2030. If Trump wins in '24, or another Republican wins in '28, this goal is out the window.
It should be because, like a lot of Biden policies, the on paper win is actually shoveling tons of taxpayer money to the individuals and institutions who have caused the underlying problem he claims to be solving (see also; basically everything Biden has done with police accountability), money fossil fuel companies are going to plow right into lobbying and PR work to further ensure nobody can have a rational conversation about what our country is doing, but, yeah, you're probably right that for the vast majority of voters it's just that they don't see it in their daily lives at all
That’s how these efforts work - they start as a goal. It gets announced after enough support signs on, and they get the policies and money together, then they start spinning up the agencies and addressing the problems and . . . it’s how big things work.
If you want to declare something and have it immediately be so, you have to do it in a videogame.
If you’re worried that we won’t get far before idiot christofascist qultists fuck it up, well. Welcome to the party pal.jpg. Don’t boo - vote!
What I'm saying is, if you want the voters to notice, you have to actually do something. Setting a goal is nothing. Then they go "look at what we did!" yeah, you haven't done ANYTHING yet.
Another example, all the EV chargers...
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/12/05/congress-ev-chargers-billions-00129996
It's great to have a goal to build charging stations. It's not a WIN until you can point to tangible progress.
How many built? Last I checked it was around 9? How many are in permitting? 🤷♂️ How many are actively being constructed? 🤷♂️
Don't tout all the things you've "done" when you haven't actually done anything yet.
"Look at me! I set a goal to lose 175 pounds by August!"
"Can you actually lose 5 pounds a day every day for 36 days?"
"🤷♂️ But hey! I set the goal! That's just as good!"
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Biden rejoined the Paris Climate Agreement, revoked the Keystone Pipeline permit, created a 13 million acre federal petroleum reserve for Alaskan wildlife, greatly increased oil site lease cost, signed $7B in solar subsidies, enacted the Inflation Reduction act to support clean energy…
Exactly. How dare he set goals and then take incremental steps to achieve them? The nerve!
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Yes, but you see, if you ignore all of that... Then Biden hasn't done anything and it's all just "meaningless babble!"
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