I feel like there was some suppression of the John Birch Society in the 60's through 90's. It sounds like that movement broke through in the 2000's and became what maga is today. I agree that the far right as been much more successful at implementing its agenda. That may be because older people, who tend to be more conservative, are much…
I feel like there was some suppression of the John Birch Society in the 60's through 90's. It sounds like that movement broke through in the 2000's and became what maga is today. I agree that the far right as been much more successful at implementing its agenda. That may be because older people, who tend to be more conservative, are much more likely to consistently vote. I don't know, though. I mean Biden has been doing all the things young people said they wanted and young people hate him.
They do. Some of it is the fickle...fickleness? (not sure if that's a word) of youth, I suppose. But some of it is kinda deserved - Biden should go further on student debt relief and maybe should have been better on climate policy earlier on (I think he's done better on that lately.) But the big thing to me is that, at least lately, it kinda seems biden is more than happy to shit on young people who dare question his wisdom re: Israel/Gaza. Regardless of how one feels about the conflict, young people clearly have a dominant viewpoint, and he keeps telling them he's wrong and he won't change anything despite their protests. That's a great way to lose votes, and I think that's what we're seeing.
It's hard though...as Mehdi Hasan has said, Biden is probably the best president in a lot of respects (including foreign policy at least until lately) in probably the last 40ish years. But also that's an incredibly low bar to clear, since that list includes trump and w bush.
I feel like there was some suppression of the John Birch Society in the 60's through 90's. It sounds like that movement broke through in the 2000's and became what maga is today. I agree that the far right as been much more successful at implementing its agenda. That may be because older people, who tend to be more conservative, are much more likely to consistently vote. I don't know, though. I mean Biden has been doing all the things young people said they wanted and young people hate him.
They do. Some of it is the fickle...fickleness? (not sure if that's a word) of youth, I suppose. But some of it is kinda deserved - Biden should go further on student debt relief and maybe should have been better on climate policy earlier on (I think he's done better on that lately.) But the big thing to me is that, at least lately, it kinda seems biden is more than happy to shit on young people who dare question his wisdom re: Israel/Gaza. Regardless of how one feels about the conflict, young people clearly have a dominant viewpoint, and he keeps telling them he's wrong and he won't change anything despite their protests. That's a great way to lose votes, and I think that's what we're seeing.
It's hard though...as Mehdi Hasan has said, Biden is probably the best president in a lot of respects (including foreign policy at least until lately) in probably the last 40ish years. But also that's an incredibly low bar to clear, since that list includes trump and w bush.