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All of us are making more profit, it’s not just the “MegaCorps”. The cost of living in today’s society is a pain in the ass, but prices have plummeted in the last two months, and food costs are way down now.

As for President Biden, he’s been a good solid President. Between President Obama who is a top ten President, and President Biden who has been in the upper 30, it is lightyears better than the actual worst President of all time, Trump.

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I’m no Biden stan, but I am a progressive, and he has definitely been more progressive than Obama was. Obama was a great president aka being a public figure/speaker, but Biden has had a much more progressive policy agenda and I’m all for that

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You have to understand that the world is drastically different between Obama’s presidency and now.

You can’t flip a switch and make a nation of 346 million people be a social democracy. You have to slowly roll in changes.

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Obama campaigned as a progressive and governed as a liberal. The world changing had nothing to do with it

EDIT: For instance, he ran on making abortion rights law, but once elected with a supermajority he switched gears and said it was not a high priority.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/andrewkaczynski/obama-promised-to-sign-the-freedom-of-choice-act-o

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This is a big distinction. Obama did the optics of the job very well, and I’d say he did a good job as president overall, given the situation. Biden I think is doing an even better job in a worse situation. He’s not terribly concerned about optics though.

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