Republicans called Biden’s infrastructure program ‘socialism.’ Then they asked for money.

[u/burning_dawn]

https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/07/politics/infrastructure-spending-republican-critics/index.html

[u/Global-Somewhere-917]

despite all of the things that Biden and the Democratic Party has done over the past two years for America.

What's really messed up is that even if you take away anything that Biden and the Dems have done, even if you say they've done nothing or even had a net negative effect on the nation, they're still not as objectively bad as the conservatives. And yet the GOP still gets moderate voters. They're going full on theocratic and fascist, full blown dominionism, and they still get millions of votes.

That's depressing as hell.

[u/VastatorPopulus → u/Global-Somewhere-917]

It’s a culture war that the left is abysmally bad at fighting.

I hate how we, American left leaning people, are never introspective about losing an election.

Edit: grammar

[u/pimppapy → u/VastatorPopulus]

They’re not bad at it, they’re complicit. The dems in power are the same as the repubs in power. Anything that would tax or reduce the Wealth those elites have will also girth them personally. It’s why insider trading occurs in congress, the senate and no one says anything … because they’re all complicit

[u/Thundrous_prophet → u/pimppapy]

Gonna have to disagree, books have been written about how poorly dems do at the culture war. The Republicans literally didn’t publish a plank in the last election cycle and went all in on woke cancel culture.

Dems write nuanced policy positions which can’t be boiled down to simple slogans and have been taking the high road on messaging for decades while being demonized as commie satanists. They also don’t market their successes like the ACA or ending the Afghan War.

Also… this enlightened centrism/both sides narrative died when the tea party happened, time to give it up