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Conversely, every single time someone makes a legitimate criticism of Biden or the Democratic establishment (and there are many to be made), someone dismisses it as "both sides".
Democrats are undoubtedly better than Republicans. Biden is undoubtedly better than Trump. Both parties are still corrupted by mega-donors and entrenched elitism.
I have no problem with legitimate criticism. There’s plenty to criticize. However, when that criticism is derogatory, often baseless, and comes with the aforementioned attacks on voting, you bet your *** that there was nothing constructive about it.
The only people propping up their argument these days with “both sides” are the willfully uneducated and the conservatives.
I'm willfully educated and a Bernie Democrat, and I've been accused of making "both sides" arguments many, many times. It's almost a guarantee that it will come out in response to any criticism of Democrats.
I don't disagree about disengenuous conservatives making bad equivalency or "uni-party" arguments. However, it's also true that the establishment consensus across both parties is very much outside the needs and desires of mainstream Americans.
I'm just pointing out of that it's really easy to accidentally throw the baby out with the bathwater, and it's not in the long term interests of the Democratic party to derail serious criticism.
Show us this "serious criticism". It needs to be:
Bernie Bros are a thing. Not that you're a Bernie Bro, just that - Trump-supporting Bernie people most definitely exist and are famous for crapping in threads. As a Bernie person myself, I don't mean offense, I'm saying it's easy to say "hey i'm a progressive, but Biden sucks" and that's actually what we're calling out here. That's a russian troll mainstay. Actual reasoned criticism is . . . rare at best.
Please try and apply your criteria to that statement. Write it up with multiple paragraphs with ample citations, add something original to it, then, frankly, shove it up your ass.
Or they call you a Russian asset/plant/bot or whatever.
Further, if you're a wage earner, chances are pretty good nothing has happened under Biden to make meaningful positive change in your life, so why skip a day's pay you desperately need in order to vote?
Unless you are in a union, have a child, drive an electric vehicle, did anything to make your home more energy efficient, want to avoid WW3, or benefit from a functional economy, Biden hasn't done anything for most Americans.
I have a lot of criticisms to make of Biden, but he's the best president we've had in at least 50 years. That is sadly an incredibly low bar, but I think he's cleared it. I think he could have handled Gaza a lot better, but I'm not sure it would have actually helped, and I'm pretty sure that no other recent president would have done much different.
If you're a wage earner, he is exactly the same as a Republican.
If you mean he hasn't personally come to your home and washed the dishes and played with the kids, yeah. Ok.
For having not even two years to unfuck all the amazing bullshit Trump intentionally or incompetently caused with a Democratic house, he's done amazingly well.
And seriously "I'm a workin' man he ain't done nothin' for me" is straight up talk radio garbage. Do you want examples? We got a bag full. But I'm guessing you don't.
I totally agree. However I never see any well-stated nuanced argument against it.
It's always "Yeah teh genocide" and a (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻
My point being, that's indistinguishable from a russian troll / MAGAt / b0tH SiDeS comment. Occasionally people will use some keywords like FPTP or Citizens United or such, which is good, but they usually still essentially just leave snark droppings and wander off. Which doesn't really help.