“We are marching to make it clear to President Biden that he is betraying the very youth who helped get him into office in the first place,” Bree Campbell, a 17-year-old organizer with New York City’s Fridays for Our Future chapter, said.
Don’t vote for him in 2024? Don’t the dems have better candidates than Biden? He can’t be all that they’ve got… that would be hilarious.
They don’t have anybody more likely to win the Democratic primary. Once somebody is elected president, their ability to fundraise basically makes it impossible to force them out unless they are fully incapacitated or do something which convinces the entire part to ditch them. Everybody knows this, so there are no credible challengers running.
That said, even before the march has started, it’s pushed the Biden administration to start making policy announcements, and it’s not like he didn’t do a lot already:
- tried a drilling permit moratorium, which got overturned in court.
- Cut the issuance of drilling leases to the minimum required by law
- pass the Inflation Reduction Act
- enact a regulation to force vehicle electrification
- pass a regulation to force fossil fuels out of most power plants
The Washington Post has a much more complete list
Realistically, a march like this will serve to get people fired up about trying to elect more and better Democrats to Congress, state, and local government, so that we get the kind of action we need.