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Sure. But let's set the record straight: blue collar jobs in the States didn't suffer because "Democrat bad and hate workers!" That's a myth perpetuated by politicians who would manipulate us for their own gain, Republican and Democrat alike.
In meantime we gotta figure out what to do with a ball of shit filled with rat poison.
When choosing between more worse and less worse, it makes sense to vote for less worse.
What’s infuriating is that we can’t vote for better because it doesn’t exist.
It's also relevant that Biden did more for blue collar jobs in the States than anyone since Lyndon Johnson. Along with climate change, it's something he actually took seriously and fought for, and achieved some success with, which made him a massive outlier in the party of Clinton and Chuck Schumer and all those assholes. How he got that through our current congress, I have absolutely no idea.
And, of course, no one really noticed, because our media is awful and people on social media have no idea what they're talking about. Even the "sophisticated" left has still been talking about it as if none of that or the climate action had happened.
For fear of reminiscing "the good old days" ... Yes, I did like a lot of his policies, especially regarding linking (ever-so-slightly progressive) climate policy with blue collar jobs. The theory was that red states would see enough of the benefits (or the hope of benefits) to soften on the Left. That clearly didn't work out in the short-run. The Biden administration's biggest weakness is Trump's unfortunate strength: capturing media attention and driving a narrative, regardless of truth (i.e. bullshitting).
Yeah, the branding of the whole thing was pure amateur-hour. But he spent about a trillion dollars on climate change and blue-collar jobs, which he raised by big corporate tax increases. It's wild that no one knows that, and I'd call it a little bit more than ever-so-slightly.