Depends how you define change I suppose.
2020 US Elections | Biden certified as President | Dems control Congress
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Depends how you define change I suppose.
Not having the nation led by Donald trump is a big change
Supporting the UN, the WHO, appointing qualified cabinet members, listening to scientists, realising that Russia shouldn't be evaluated simply by likelihood of real estate deals...that's just a couple things off the top of my head.
But yeah, nothing will change, Biden is just as bad a human being as Trump.
But yeah, nothing will change, Biden is just as bad a human being as Trump.
And then 8 years after that you'll have another Republican, who as far as policy goes won't be very dissimilar to Trump (because Trump has governed as a fairly standard Republican in that respect). Biden represents momentary change, but very likely zero structural change. Coating it in sarcastic suggestions that people think he's literally as bad as Trump doesn't change that.
Depends really. If the Dems can take back the Presidency and the Senate, they could finally make meaningful changes to US system of democracy. If that happened, a President like Trump who only appealed to a single demographic would never be able to win the Presidency again.
The only way to get elected would be to garner support from multiple groups of voters - which would in theory protect against another potential demagogue - maybe this time one who wasn't a demonstrable idiot incapable of finishing a sentence, much less writing policy.
4 more years of Trump is just unthinkable. What he would do now that he's shown breaking norms and laws don't matter? He's spent 3 years testing the fences, and now he knows they're not real.
Structural change wouldn't be happening irrespective of who is President. The entire US system is set up to drift back to its equilibrium.
Biden literally said nothing will fundamentally change during the campaign. But I guess beachryan and shamans know better.
He was probably referring to things like defunding the police. Simply undoing most of the things Trump did would already be big changes.
I don't follow that logic.
Going back to how things were before Trump, will only end up with.. yep, another Trump.
I'm not talking about the last four years. Anything would be a change, but a change back to what?. Looking more likely that it will be a return to the 30 years of that Neo Liberal bubble that gave birth to Trump in the first place.
Biden is the safe option, real change come from progressives. We likely won't see that until at least halfway into his term, or 2024.
Except the Dems are running with Biden, so meaningful / structural / significant changes to anything sound pretty unlikely to me. I mean, they are running with their most centrist and traditionalist candidate possible, so they can have an enormous tent that even includes a lot of disgruntled Republicans (like all those people speaking at their convention), and have the best chance of beating Trump. That makes sense in a reactive way to the craziness of Trump, but I agree with everyone on here that a change to general practice like it was before Trump is all we're going to see under Biden.
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Fixed it for you.
Reminder of what democrats do when in power. Any sort of positive change isn't going to happen with the dems.
The more salient question is what is her preferred policy now and more importantly, what is Biden’s ?
Certainly a lot shorter!
Harris has literally been reward for her awful policy, she isn't going to change and Biden helped write the crime bill.
The more salient question is what is Kamala’s view now on wallet inspectors and more importantly, what is Biden’s?
What gave birth to trump can be debated. Also going back to 2008 at this point would be a progression.
What does Neo liberal actually mean? That gets thrown around almost as an insult. I've never heard anyone describe themselves as neoliberal and using your 30 year timeline dates back to the era of Ronald Reagan ... a conservative deity.
If people cared about either issue neither would be nominated to win the Presidency. Biden’s case especially - people simply could care less about a person’s policy 25 years ago. It’s all about what it is in the present.
My argument is that anyone expecting positive change(Look at some of the posts on this page for example)shouldn't be looking at the Democratic party.
Good for them. @Sweet Square and I think that past actions should be considered when evaluating a politician.
That's a political science description. I want to know the description from people who since 2016 have all of the sudden become infatuated by this term without defining it themselves but just as a common buzzword.
The way I see it these little political science compasses determining whether you're neoliberal or marxist-leninist or paleo-conservative mean nothing to the average voter.
Huh? The term has been around since the 1990s and used to describe the changes on Democrat policy made by the Clintons away from the old liberalism of FDR and LBJ.
Specifically it was coined to encompass things like the Clintons stripping of welfare, increased focus on tough on crime policies and eventual passing of the CFMA and FSMA.
Broadly it means the belief that free market policies are the best way for social progress. It also guided the Clinton plans for Russia in the 1990s guided by the incorrect belief that the best thing to do was deregulate and let markets run wild.
It was discussed all over the internet and in my PEIS classes c. 2004-2006. It's not a new thing at all even if you haven't heard it until recently.
https://www.vox.com/2020/8/19/21375...platform-climate-change-fossil-fuel-subsidies
It's the hope that kills you.
If you were taught middle and high school level social sciences in the early 2000s by south american marxist teachers like I was, then you'd have heard of it.
You are right that it is mainly used as slander. What I find most curious is that in the past maybe 4-8 years it was picked up by the right-wing as something to call the mainstream also. The left has been doing it for decades.
I'm not saying it's a new thing. I'm saying I've not heard anyone label themselves as a neoliberal. It's an academic label the likes of which the average person doesn't get bogged down in just like marxist-leninist and paleo-conservative but it's been appropriated by a new group of people as an insult.
Working class voters, blue-collar voters, voters in the lowest economic bracket voted and supported Bill Clinton and Barack Obama.
There is a new online community that has "reclaimed" neoliberal. r/neoliberal and people on twitter with globe symbols. They combine a range of political opinion from Pinochet to Warren, what really unifies them is a Vox.com approach to politics, which is about some clever very targeted plan that will fix a problem by incentivising the correct actors.
When I read what they have to say, I pray for nuclear annhiliation of all human life.
A plucky little virus doing what bernie could never
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Mail sorting machines taken apart in downtown Grand Rapids, MI. For those who don't know - Grand Rapids city is about as as blue as a place gets (they voted for Hillary in higher rates than in the Detroit metro for instance) but as a whole SW Michigan is considered a Republican stronghold. The land of Gerald Ford and the DeVos family. But that's generally the areas outside of downtown/city proper:
https://www.hollandsentinel.com/news/20200819/mail-sorting-machines-taken-apart-in-grand-rapids
At this pt the removal of Trump should be declared a national holiday. Hell.. Make election day a holiday because of him and see how the enablers still feel about him then.
https://www.hollandsentinel.com/news/20200819/mail-sorting-machines-taken-apart-in-grand-rapids
At this pt the removal of Trump should be declared a national holiday. Hell.. Make election day a holiday because of him and see how the enablers still feel about him then.
Wasn't that supposed not to be happening anymore now the reforms have been postponed? Or was that just a lie so they can keep doing it without all the fuzz about it?
Neo-liberalism is an economic approach (as I know you know). It does not make sense to call yourself a neo-liberal in any other context. I think a lot of people you're referring may have heard about this in discussions on the economy and got it mixed up with the political term 'liberal'.
That reddit page were big on Buttigieg weren’t they. Or the Buttigieg page kept taking shit from the neolib page. cnuts
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