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I largely agree with your sentiment, but -
This is gaslighting common Americans. This was not an amazing success in my lived experience.
Life under Biden/during COVID hit so much harder than 2008 as a person living in poverty, living around other people in poverty or homelessness in an exceptionally poor area.
People barely received any direct help and all I heard about is corporations raking in record profits. People blowing their savings - racking up credit cards. Interest rates going through the roof. House prices going insane while investors buy everything up. Rent skyrocketing. Food going absolutely nuts.
I don't know what to say besides none of this felt like enough. I know what the common responses to my expressed sentiment are and it's okay if you disagree, but this was a necessary vent.
And most of those things were caused by MAGA-supporting corporations and Sociopathic Oligarchs, pissy that they didn't get their way, and most people recognized that.
Sure, the MAGAs did their best to sabotage Biden's Economic Recovery Program, but what DIDN'T happen, was that we didn't go into a recession or depression, which was looming large, due to the virtuosic incompetence of the MAGAs.
What did happen was that inflation DECREASED, jobs increased, unemployment decreased greatly, and most people came out of Covid a bit banged up, but okay.
So you can keep your MAGA propaganda. The lack of action against MAGA treason aside, Biden had an extremely successful presidency. But add in his low impact response to MAGA treason, and allowing MAGA to rise again and retake power, and the net result of his presidency is FAILURE.
...excuse me? I'd like to request that you don't accuse me of this.
Sure seems like it to me that the price of goods multiplied and cost of living vastly increased, while the minimum wage stayed stagnant (or effectively close to it) in most areas and wages generally didn't rise proportionately - Americans clearly had less and less purchasing power over Biden's term. Unemployment is an obvious gamed statistic, as well.
Who the literal fuck cares about terms like "inflation", "recession", and "depression" - America was destroyed before Biden left office and performing the bare minimum of first aid to stop the bleeding is not an amazing success. I don't care about macroeconomics - higher interest rates hurt average people. People need vastly more support to properly get back on their feet.
Biden giving Americans healthcare assistance in a literal pandemic would've be nice too - it'd be awesome to go out in public and not see vast swaths of people visibly in distress every single time because they are underserved by the healthcare system and can't afford help and tell me as much. It's especially heartbreaking seeing these people help me as a part of their job duties when they are doing so poorly. No matter who is in in office, even fucking Obama, this has been a persistent reality for me - I am TIRED of seeing this shit.
Nope. You are living in a bubble.
I already told you that you are free to disagree, but I'm going to push back on gaslighting when I see it. You were free to not engage, accuse me of MAGA propaganda, and repeat all the common talking points that milquetoast liberals repeat like it's their job. The economy can go to hell if its maintenance requires sacrificing regular people while convincing them that everything is actually okay.