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This is the sanest comment.
Biden's economy was shit too, which is what made it possible for Trump to broaden his coalition so significantly.
It wasn't though. Fucking people just swallowed the trump/Republican/MS bullshit. Profits were up, unemployment was down, violent crime was down, etc. I'm not saying Biden didn't do a lot of shit stuff or that I wasn't in direct opposition to several of his positions.
I'm sure it was great for the owning class (profits up, unemployment down). But the metrics that matter (number of people able to afford housing, homelessness, access to healthcare, education, general purchasing power) all moved in the wrong direction.
To illustrate why unemployment is a bad metric, consider the notion of having to work multiple jobs to make ends meet. Consider homeless bus drivers in San Francisco. High unemployment (good economy for the owning class) does not imply higher living standards (good economy for the rest of us), especially when paired with higher profits.
It is exactly this denial of problems of everyday working americans that lost the Dems the election. Trump won because he acknowledged there's a big problem. Sure, if you think about it, his solutions will make things worse, but at least he'll do something.
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.