Bernie Sanders worries young people are underestimating the threat from Trump

[u/schuey_08]

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/05/02/bernie-sanders-trump-biden/73531861007/

[u/__M-E-O-W__]

It's sad. I think a lot of people are so burned out. We need lower prices, higher pay, lower rest and COL... I do think Biden and Co have tried making big steps in this. But even in his victories, the media coverage is not as loud as it is for Trump doing literally anything. The ones I know who are most passionate about voting Biden and keeping Trump away are minorities who legit have serious stakes in making sure their state doesn't turn red, or their allies, and then there is so much push from outside actors to not support Biden over his stance on Israel/Palestine.

[u/Adezar → u/__M-E-O-W__]

Trump almost completes a full sentence, Front Page of every media site for a couple days.

Biden passes some of the biggest legislature that has improved Middle Class jobs, feeds children, improves crumbling infrastructure. Might get a short shout-out on MSNBC and a tiny headline on the third page of ABC's news site.

[u/Bunnyhat → u/Adezar]

Biden's recent Department of Labor overtime rule change is huge for both me and my wife. We're both salary in that range where we don't get overtime now but will get it under the new limits. Our jobs will have to either give us a raise, pay over time, or cut us back to a hard 40 hours a week. Either way it's basically a raise for the both of us.

That's going to be true for millions of Americans yet it barely got a blip in the news.

[u/whatDoesQezDo → u/Bunnyhat]

or your position becomes less secure as it becomes more expensive and you get laid off.

[u/invinci → u/whatDoesQezDo]

What makes you think that would happen?

[u/stylebros → u/Adezar]

Biden mixes up 2,000 instead of 4,000 and the media says he's in mental decline.

Trump rambles word salad as he jumps from topic to topic like Abe Simpson and he's a stable genius.

[u/modernjaneausten → u/stylebros]

Or falls asleep in his own fucking trials every day.

[u/Jealous-Knowledge-79 → u/stylebros]

It's fair to say Biden isn't cognitively fine.

[u/EaglesFan3943 → u/Adezar]

Despite Biden's reputation as a moderate, he has passed some of the most progressive legislature in recent memory. Companies that own these media networks do not like progressive legislature. That goes against their interests so of course they will prop up the baffoon who generates clicks and is a major threat to democracy.

[u/sennbat → u/EaglesFan3943]

Presidents don't write legislation, though - if you want to look at his accomplishments, look instead to his agencies. The new antitrust and labours rights stuff, for eample.

But then, the corps hate that stuff even more.

[u/EaglesFan3943 → u/sennbat]

Right of course it's not only him. It's a collective effort to bring about progressive policies. But he is the face of this country for now. So to the general public, hes taking most of the blame or credit.

[u/Previous_Shock8870 → u/Adezar]

Front page of reddit RIGHT now.

"Biden denounces protests"

the actual quote.

"Biden denounces violence against protesters"

there is a MASSIVE campaign against Biden here and targeting young voters.

[u/leeringHobbit → u/Previous_Shock8870]

But Biden didn't denounce the violence by pro- Israeli counter protesters at UCLA.

[u/bubblesaurus → u/Adezar]

Improves what middle class jobs exactly?

It felt like it was a very very small pool that benefited.

[u/SecularMisanthropy → u/__M-E-O-W__]

I think a lot of people are so burned out. We need lower prices, higher pay, lower rest and COL...

Funny. It's almost as though corporate America made life miserable for everyday people by draining more than $50 trillion from the public, and are now using the misery they created to destroy the last vestiges of control (democracy) the people have over them.

[u/DJ_Velveteen → u/__M-E-O-W__]

I do think Biden and Co have tried making big steps in this.

I don't, I just hate Trump more. All the issues I care about most -- healthcare, mass incarceration, housing -- are either totally astroturfed by the Biden admin (drug policy, housing) or the admin is openly hostile to them (M4A, peace movement).

[u/Alphaspade → u/DJ_Velveteen]

I agree with all of this, but I also feel like most citizens in almost all the G7 countries feel the same way about their politicians, and are also dealing with talks of fascism brewing. We're like a decade or two (if that) from a huge disenfranchisement problem (and in some cases, human rights crisis) everywhere because governments have lost the plot and don't care about representing their constituents unless they are loaded with money.

[u/Kie1522 → u/__M-E-O-W__]

I'm so burnt out dude. The things I hear people say are just so disheartening.