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I hesitate to say that Biden is better than Trump at this point. (lemmygrad.ml)
submitted 7 months ago by TeezyZeezy@lemmygrad.ml to c/comradeship@lemmygrad.ml
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This is not me saying at all that Trump is better than Biden; it's more of an equalization argument that I truthfully can't see a fiscal difference.

It's been well known by people like us that the two bourgeois parties are basically the same, but I never really understood how close they were until the last like, 6 months.

Maybe it's JUST Biden that's super similar. But regardless, I just don't see the difference. He spews nice words about trans rights, workers, all of these good things. But the exact same shit that happened under Trump basically happened under Biden. Funding for genocidal states, proxy war funding, funding police, loss of abortion federal protection, separation of kids and parents at the border, etc.

People keep saying Biden is marginally better, where?

I don't know. I can't bring myself to vote for any of these guys this time around.

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[-] Hexbear2@hexbear.net 20 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

There has been no difference since Carter. Carter was the one who started modern neoliberalism with the idea that inducing a recession would be a good thing to stop run-away inflation, so he worked with the fed to start one.

It went Carter, Reagan, CIA, Clinton. (or, in other words, CIA, CIA, CIA, CIA).

By then, we were cooked, truly no difference in neoliberalism from either party, the cruelty towards the average person domestic and abroad is some sort of special evil.

Edit, in 1963, the CIA was successful in a coupe of the USA, and has been in charge ever since.

[-] DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 7 months ago

I don't know much about Carter's administration (Non-US here) can you give me more info on how he started a recession by working with the fed? I know he largely pushed "reaching across the aisle" mentality that is used for excusing all of the US government's actions since, but I don't know much about this recession.

[-] Hexbear2@hexbear.net 3 points 7 months ago

Here it is, straight from 1980, https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1980/03/15/carter-unveils-plan-to-fight-inflation/e4ec33d5-0060-4aa7-b7eb-b29770cd0434/

Read the whole thing, it talks about the predicted recession that these "reforms" were intended to bring about.

[-] DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 7 months ago

Do you have a version that isn't paywalled? I can't read that one without giving WatPo money unfortunately.

[-] Hexbear2@hexbear.net 1 points 7 months ago
[-] DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 7 months ago

Thanks for that. I've heard that Carter largely started the neo-liberal "slash and burn" economics that most attribute to Reagan, but I hadn't actually seen any direct sources on it before now.

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