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Joe Biden nears 200 judges, highlighting stakes for the courts in the 2024 election
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this post was submitted on 22 May 2024
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Don't be excited about just a number of judges.
Biden is significantly more conservative than the Dem voter base, and has an unhealthy obsession with "compromising" with republicans and trying to appointment people who think both parties have valid points.
That's not how you fight fascism and religious extremists.
I can assure you his picks and trump's picks are going to agree on stuff, especially when it's about what the wealthy and/or corporations can do to regular citizens
You've upset our lib population here on lemmy. 😂
I feel like you all like to invent people to pretend you've upset. I don't really consider myself a lib, but in classic left fashion, people to the left of me will call me one. The only time I start downvoting stuff about Biden is when its clearly false or its people saying they aren't going to vote (or worse, will vote for trump). Frankly I think most of those people are likely fake. You want to point out bad stuff about Biden, please do. You want to push him on issues, please do. You want to fight grassroots for better elected officials where you can get them in, please do. Just don't lie and don't decide to give up on the idea of governance all together (see accelerationism).
Agreed.
…and where you are unhappy with Biden’s policy, look to see what Trump’s policy would be. If it’s not better, for instance the US policy on Israel/Gaza, don’t use that as a reason to not vote. Protest and let your elected officials know how you feel, vote in every election all the way down to school board levels, and try to change who is in all of the supporting roles in an administration if you are unhappy with them, but don’t abstain. Apathy is better for regressive candidates than progressive candidates.
Government is a ‘big ship’; and, it takes a long time to turn the direction it’s moving. Republicans are far better at playing the long game; and, we are reaping what they’ve been sowing since the Southern Strategy started under the Nixon administration and was the driving force under the Reagan administration.
If you don’t like what our government has become, you are working against a 40-50 year track record that put us here.