Opinion | The Seeds Joe Biden Has Planted
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President Biden has reinvigorated the government’s role as the nation’s most important investor.

it is Mr. Biden’s reinvigoration of the government’s role as the nation’s most important investor that may endure as a turning point in the nation’s political and economic history.

Investments, like saplings, do not yield immediate fruit, and Mr. Biden has struggled to generate public enthusiasm for these long-term strategies.

  • SCB@lemmy.world
    192·
    6 months ago

    Mr. Biden is articulating a simple, strong contrast: Republicans believe that collecting less money in taxes will catalyze economic growth; Bidenomics “is rooted in what’s always worked best for the country: investing in America and investing in Americans,” as the president put it in a November speech in Northfield, Minn.

    It is an overdue end to an era in which the difference between the parties could be summarized as a debate about how large tax cuts should be.

    Someone in this thread will inevitably talk about voting for Biden “even if he sucks” while he’s doing exactly the things they want.

    • Doc Avid Mornington@midwest.socialEnglish
      121·
      6 months ago

      Biden isn’t doing exactly the things I want. He’s doing some things I kind of want, or at least strongly prefer over what I might have expected him to do, and vastly prefer over what Trump would do, while also doing some things I think are very bad. He’s probably the most progressive president of my lifetime, but that’s more an indictment of politics in my lifetime than an endorsement of Biden. He not only isn’t doing, but has actively opposed doing what the best science available tells us we need to do in order to prevent the worst outcomes of the climate crisis, which is pretty terrifying. Ultimately, he could literally kill more people than any world leader in history, yet he’s still the best viable option. So yep, you got me: we gotta vote for him, even if he sucks.