crusa187

“Affluenza” is a totally credible defense, allegedly.

If only! Biden is maybe 5% of a Johnson at best.

…and there’s no way he compares at all to Roosevelt. That’s actually pretty insulting to FDR’s legacy.

Yeah, and of course handling of the Gulf of Tonkin incident leading up to Vietnam with Johnson, not a great legacy in some regards.

But as you pointed out with Roosevelt, Johnson was also willing to roll up his sleeves and use the bully pulpit properly to get meaningful legislation passed - laws which materially benefited the lives of regular working class Americans. Consider how he absolutely steamrolled the Dixiecrats on the way to passing the civil rights act.

We haven’t seen Dems fight like that for us for a long time. Biden and Manchin are basically blowing kisses at each other during press conferences while ramming through the Mountain Valley Pipeline at a time when climate change is undeniably reaching critical mass. It’s such a disheartening reality.

I think the vast majority of Americans would rally behind someone who truly fought for us, for progress. Polling agrees if you look at the data. But how can we get them onto the national stage when the corporate mainstream media is poised to absolutely assassinate their character, image, and even their livelihoods, on the way up?

Same. I think our best bet for now is for the repugnantcons to split, and the corpo dems join the corpo repugs as an official corporate party. Then we can have what’s left of the dems, hopefully without the financial influence of the oligarchs.

Can’t have the plebs communicating and organizing freely on the likes of twit or redd!

All comms must be filtered through the fair and totally unbiased lens of corporate news media. Those millionaire anchors and billionaire C-suites are on our side, after all.

I think what you’re describing is the current reality, and so we would need a paradigm shift. It could happen via a mass cultural awakening, where people decide the rich should not be the ones ruling their lives. This is in fact the essence of American democracy. I believe this is already happening, you just don’t hear about it on TV.

We’d have to demand that candidates run on, and elect them on, policy. This is the tricky part…turning a blind eye to America’s greatest export, advertising and marketing (propaganda).

That’s a TX registration sticker on the windshield, this pic is legit.

Lured away by the guy who consistently stepped up to be the detractor to Biden delivering on all the meaningful campaign promises? While I think this was an intentional partnership between the two, I don’t see Manchin luring away any 3rd party voters at all.

RIP Kevin, had his first kid on the way too, what a shame.

You’ve long been an inspiration to me and many others. Thanks for never setting off all those nukes, may history remember your mercy fondly.

They aren’t pro-birth either, or they’d support things like paid family leave, etc.

These people are forced-birth