If you all take a moment to look through OP’s history, you’ll see a litany of anti-Biden posts. I get it, we need to be critical of our leadership, and I fully support holding them accountable. However, OP really seems to have an anti-Biden bias. I’ll be blocking OP after I post this, and if you feel like you should do the same, I think you’ll find your Lemmy experience a little better.
Considering no one else posts anything but postive news you blocking the one person who doesn’t is just creating your own echo chamber. Like three people post articles to lemmy and you’re mad at one because you dont like seeing negativity about Biden but thats news. These are real things that happend and burrying you head about it so you dont feel bad is a level of ignorance on par with the rest of the American voters. Man Americans love ignorance, and ignorance where they get to feel like they’re superior, oh they must be loving it.
This post isn’t anti-biden. It is undeniably pro-biden. A hallmark of wisdom is an ability to change one’s mind. It is so sad that we have gotten to a point where growth and personal evolution are now seen as a negative thing. I can’t imagine living life constantly feeling like I must defend everything I’ve ever thought in the past because I see the very act of learning as something to be ashamed of.
Biden’s original policy was made to court progressives on the left. His current move is to make himself more appealing/ defend against attacks from the right. Which is both frustrating for those he courted in his first election, but also stupid because those on the right won’t know/ care that he capitulated. They’ll just move the goal posts further right.
It’s a blunder and an unforced error, the favorite kind of mistake to make for democrats.
Republicans do this, too. Changing policies/views to try to please as large a group as possible is just what it means to be a successful politician. Politicians with firm beliefs end up like Bernie Sanders, respected by people with values, but without ever getting any real power. Just go back far enough, and you’ll find biden going on about how gay people shouldn’t be allowed to marry, and trump talking about how he identifies as a Democrat. To succeed in this business, your morals have to be made of playdough.
It’s not a bit. I’m actually one of those weird people who sees change as a good thing. I don’t have that disease where I think that changing views with new information makes me stupid. It is a result of having a habit of thinking for myself instead of just trying to memorize what a “good political party member” is supposed to think about a given issue.
