Ok so this right here is emblematic of how far Biden had his head up his ass.
He and the DNC were so fucking focused on the stats and numbers that they simply refused to believe that people were actually still struggling. They ignored real, lived experiences of tens of millions of citizens who were saying “shit sucks and I’m barely making rent”. They ignored the hollowing out of the middle class over the last couple decades, and the slow, crushing death that the lower class has been increasingly subjected to. Jack yourselves off as much as you want about profit and unemployment numbers (which is measured in a way that makes it loosely affiliated with reality, at best) and GDP and nasdaq numbers; the fact remains that, on the ground, life still sucked for a LOT of people. And they basically got at best ignored, and at worst lectured by uninspiring politicky grandpa before being told “that’s not real, shut the fuck up”. It’s not that shocking that a ton of people stayed home, when one considers the full context like that. I voted for Harris, but I was deeply dismayed at how little she seemed to want to differentiate herself from Biden. I think that is one of the primary things that sunk her.
Ok so this right here is emblematic of how far Biden had his head up his ass.
He and the DNC were so fucking focused on the stats and numbers that they simply refused to believe that people were actually still struggling. They ignored real, lived experiences of tens of millions of citizens who were saying “shit sucks and I’m barely making rent”. They ignored the hollowing out of the middle class over the last couple decades, and the slow, crushing death that the lower class has been increasingly subjected to. Jack yourselves off as much as you want about profit and unemployment numbers (which is measured in a way that makes it loosely affiliated with reality, at best) and GDP and nasdaq numbers; the fact remains that, on the ground, life still sucked for a LOT of people. And they basically got at best ignored, and at worst lectured by uninspiring politicky grandpa before being told “that’s not real, shut the fuck up”. It’s not that shocking that a ton of people stayed home, when one considers the full context like that. I voted for Harris, but I was deeply dismayed at how little she seemed to want to differentiate herself from Biden. I think that is one of the primary things that sunk her.