Do you have any examples of minimum wage doubling during a pandemic where the economy is on its knees in recent times? Because you aren't giving examples, you're just saying "nu uh". Sorry but if even Bernie Sanders supports a gradual increase then I don't know what to tell you. You're wrong. But the vaccines are being distributed and economy will start booming as it recovers. THAT is the time for sweeping reform, not when the average business owner is barely holding on.
Do you have a counter example? It seems to me we both have the same amount of evidence for our positions. Why are you so certain that Walmart will benefit from a minimum wage increase. If Walmart would benefit from a minimum wage increase why do they fight so hard against it?
The only thing we know is gonna happen with a minimum wage increase is that people on the minimum wage are gonna get paid more.
It does. Trump got 70 million votes and if he didn't deal with Covid like a fool he'd probably win another 4 years. Biden barely won several key states by a few thousand. Being left leaning in general is barely more popular than right, and extreme left is in the minority. Bernie's ideas are brilliant but not as popular in the US as we need for him (or someone like him) to either get president or accomplish anything in office unless Congress is equally left.
What does any of this have to do with anything? Even if fixing things doesnt prove popular somehow, you still fixed the damn things.
Look, here is the thing. At the point where a politician says "we are going to increase the minimum wage, but we will do it the slow sensible way, because we are sensible people" then they are already committed. I have never, ever, ever heard a politician say "well, we always knew there were going to be risks, and it didnt work out, so now we are going to change our approach" what they always end up doing is saying "oh yes, the economy is on its knees, but it isnt my fault, its because we didnt go far enough". The waiting for years thing is entirely aesthetic. And meanwhile the people on the minimum wage are still struggling to make rent.
Yes, it will be a shock for people paying minimum wage, but it wont be as hard as it is for the people on minimum wage right now. And there are a lot more of those people.
It is when the guy in question is doing exactly what we voted him into office to do. Congress on the other hand is in the middle of working on bills for him to sign to make those things happen, or is dragging its feet due to partisan or bipartisan disagreements.
There are concentration camps on your border.
If you don't like it YOU can write to your congressmen / representatives and try to vote someone else in when 2022 / 2024 comes around.
I write to my local MP a lot. But for American politics I don't have a congressperson so I have to annoy people on the internet into doing it for me.
But knee jerk blaming Biden for something he didn't do is shitty especially when the guys in Congress are getting away with not doing what we want. Too many people use the president as a scapegoat for their problems. Biden / the President isn't king of America, they're just part of the Executive branch who has to deal with the other two. As far as I can see Biden has been doing pretty much exactly what he promised to.
He didn't close the concentration camps yet though.
There is no point to your post except "nu uh, democrats bad".
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Sorry but at this time there is no viable Bernie / AOC party, as much as I would like there to be. Instead we have the Democrats who are, at this moment, more far left then they have ever been. Maybe depending on who runs for Dems / Rep in 2024 we might have a chance to get a really left leaning president / congress. Maybe in 2022 we'll get some new congressmen as well.
Maybe, but maybe the best way to get new congresspeople is to actually improve things. Maybe you have a window right now while the Republican party is in disarray to get things done, and if you wait til 2022 your window will have closed. There is no reason to think that there is a better opportunity than right now to fix things if you can fix things. And you could, if people demanded it.
Biden isn't the end goal, he's a stepping stone towards what we want. If Biden's policies are successful (and they should be, since there's plenty of real world examples of literally everything he campaigned on working) it will pave the way to more left leaning ideas gaining popularity. But just screeching BERNIE OR BUST doesn't help or realistically take into account the political situation in the US.
This I agree with.
On the other hand, saying "Biden is gonna fix everything, dont worry your precious little head" is also a bad idea.
I would support this if for no other reason than to see how the Republicans try to turn competitive Pokémon into propaganda.
Well, you'll have to change the constitution to allow non resident non citizens to be President, but if you can do that, then I'll consider a run. I'd have to work remotely though, I am not moving to America.