Biden fired the guy who used to be in charge of the NLRB and installed a bunch of actual labor people, who have been materially supporting these historic union gains the last couple of years
And also invested hundreds of billions of dollars in domestic manufacturing, such that wages are actually going up at the bottom end of the scale for the first time in quite a while, outpacing even historic inflation
And also tried to forgive half a trillion dollars worth of student loan debt, the Supreme Court told him no, and so he used his own authority to forgive around $150 billion of it
And took big action on climate change for the first time in US history ever
And also raised corporate taxes significantly to fund all that stuff
I don’t think the issue is that Biden isn’t progressive enough, although further more progressive than Biden would obviously be better. It is that the news media in this country doesn’t give a fuck about anybody below the $120k/year level and so doesn’t report any of that (or generally not as a good thing, in the rare cases that they do). But it still all happened.
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Biden fired the guy who used to be in charge of the NLRB and installed a bunch of actual labor people, who have been materially supporting these historic union gains the last couple of years
And also invested hundreds of billions of dollars in domestic manufacturing, such that wages are actually going up at the bottom end of the scale for the first time in quite a while, outpacing even historic inflation
And also tried to forgive half a trillion dollars worth of student loan debt, the Supreme Court told him no, and so he used his own authority to forgive around $150 billion of it
And took big action on climate change for the first time in US history ever
And also raised corporate taxes significantly to fund all that stuff
I don’t think the issue is that Biden isn’t progressive enough, although further more progressive than Biden would obviously be better. It is that the news media in this country doesn’t give a fuck about anybody below the $120k/year level and so doesn’t report any of that (or generally not as a good thing, in the rare cases that they do). But it still all happened.