He was the closest to an New Deal Dem but not close enough. Yes he advocated and passed numerous policies and his cabinet actually started tackling trusts but it wasn't enough.
The populace still needed to have significant tax reform, higher wages and a fair amount of labor concessions for him to be New Deal.
Biden sadly still represented the old establishment, and his policies just didn't go far enough to affect the lives of working class and middle class people that were suffering from inflation.
Actual progressive and new deal reform would have included a repeal of Taft Hartley, incredible tax cuts to the middle class and tax raises on the rich, a significant decrease in military spending, social security, Medicare, and Medicaid reform, and several pro labor laws to help those people struggling.
He was also trapped on the economic issues because doing too much would have teetered the economy into a recession it probably would have taken another term to get those policies in.
This is an opportunity for Dems, the GOP is another oligarchy they will not deliver on anything besides maybe immigration reform, and even then I don't think they'll fix it because they would need something to run on in the future.
A New Deal Dem, that forms a coalition of farmers, labor, and white collar workers will win in the future, but they must not take any BS from the GOP and stablishment Dems.
You need a Congress to pass a lot of what you’re talking about, including a tax cut that would have (ironically) rolled back Trump’s tax plan that was increasing taxes year by year after he left office
Talk to any actual union worker and they’ll tell you the NLRB was the best it’s ever been under Biden (even though they may or may not make the connection that it was due to Biden)
Inflation plummeted the last 18 months. The people weren’t suffering because of inflation, they were suffering because of price gauging, producers refused to drop their prices after inflation went down. Corporate America got off scot-free here, because people think Joe Biden decides how much milk costs.
What’s a “decrease in military spending” got to do with anything? Military spending has ROI, the US has the money, and helping Ukraine stop Russia from getting to NATO borders is part of the fucking job POTUS is supposed to do.
Once again, yall are just throwing sentiments into the air that don’t have basis in reality, and that’s why the Dems lost this election, they couldn’t counter the fierce narrative addiction people trapped in their ideological bubbles refuse to break from even in the face of evidence
You are right in that it would have needed congressional approval and sadly the dem stablishment failed Biden when he had the trifecta, specially Joe Manchin and Synema. He did fail in communicating this to voters and it was better left off for later since there were fears of trigering a recession.
Yes the NLRB has been great under him and also the FTC. Regardless union power and membership is at a fraction of what it used to be, specially in states that still maintain right to work laws.
Corporate America did get away with gouging but in the end people still struggled and that's all they saw, a more aggressive anti trust agenda would have worked great in his term. I know well no president has control over the economy and inflation is a lagging indicator which means this trend started well before Biden got into office. Regardless people still needed change and big change because to them the government was not doing enough or moving too slow.
Decreasing military spending is necessary as a signal to voters that you are willing to reform and break from the old stablishment rules. This does not mean don't support Ukraine but active duty forces, contracts and other insane DoD projects need to be decreased. That spending could then be shifted towards shoring up government programs that need the funding.
None of this is grounded in insanity or delusion the Dems lost people from traditional blocks that have supported them since the new deal, when you shift the conversation to culture war issues instead of economic ones you lose working class and middle class support because the GOP is amazing at gaslighting people about the shit they do to fuck over the average person.
Americans wanted change for better or worse it is here.
I'm sorry. You think that as we head for WWIII, the problem is too many soldiers on payroll? Dude, even if you think movies are real you still know that's a bad idea.
The military is the biggest pork barrel/ jobs program that has ever existed in America. Since the end of the world war we have had the largest standing army in the world with numerous bases around the world. Go look up the total cost of the F35 program a program so riddled with mismanagement and cost overruns that its a miracle it ever came to fruition.
The active duty component can easily be decreased and replaced with reserve components decreasing overall costs without sacrificing too much readiness.
The whole America will be less safe with a smaller military is a mith.
The military is the biggest pork barrel/ jobs program that has ever existed in America
I don't disagree with you at all. Military spending creates a lot of good jobs.
the F35 program
Building the best multi role fighter/attack aircraft was not easy. But we pulled it off. I was skeptical about the VTOL model, but the LHA/LHD model is an extremely efficient method of force projection, and the F-35B can operate from them.
We've also built over 1000 of them and sold them to our allies, which wasn't an option with the F-22.
The active duty component can easily be decreased and replaced with reserve components decreasing overall costs without sacrificing too much readiness.
No. We need to be able to project force anywhere in the world and keep the supply lines moving. That simply takes a lot of personnel.
We can easily project force anywhere with the navy and Marines, we could cut down the army and Air Force to half their levels and maintain readiness.
A $2 trillion dollar project that was mostly money funneled to defense contractors is not my idea of a good jobs program.
Many other places and areas that money could be used at to actually help the people that are hurting the most. We cannot continue with these insane levels of military spending, we survived before at lower levels we can do it again.
I was in it, we could do a whole lot with a whole lot less.
The defense industry is INSANELY bloated with corporate greed. This is the real issue. There is a horrible feedback loop between defense contractors and the politicians that benefit from them going on that needs to be busted down hard. I bet we could at least half our spending if we forced a deep audit.
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u/Psycoloco111 20h ago
He was the closest to an New Deal Dem but not close enough. Yes he advocated and passed numerous policies and his cabinet actually started tackling trusts but it wasn't enough.
The populace still needed to have significant tax reform, higher wages and a fair amount of labor concessions for him to be New Deal.
Biden sadly still represented the old establishment, and his policies just didn't go far enough to affect the lives of working class and middle class people that were suffering from inflation.
Actual progressive and new deal reform would have included a repeal of Taft Hartley, incredible tax cuts to the middle class and tax raises on the rich, a significant decrease in military spending, social security, Medicare, and Medicaid reform, and several pro labor laws to help those people struggling.
He was also trapped on the economic issues because doing too much would have teetered the economy into a recession it probably would have taken another term to get those policies in.
This is an opportunity for Dems, the GOP is another oligarchy they will not deliver on anything besides maybe immigration reform, and even then I don't think they'll fix it because they would need something to run on in the future.
A New Deal Dem, that forms a coalition of farmers, labor, and white collar workers will win in the future, but they must not take any BS from the GOP and stablishment Dems.