Didn’t do shit for student loans despite using that as a carrot for both the general and midterms, then claimed he was doing so much when all he was doing was acting in accordance with policies passed by previous administrations.
Didn’t tell the truth about his cognitive condition until well after the primaries, meaning Americans didn’t have a choice in the primary and Kamala’s candidacy was hamstrung from the start. Therefore we got Trump 2.0. I’d bet money she could have won the general if she wasn’t a nominee by default (I’d’ve voted for someone else in the primary, but I think she could have won it).
Sorry about the rant, I have a lot of feelings here.
Realistically, we all have this inherent bias and no one in my life has had their lives improved by Biden. Not a single one. I’m not upper class, my family is stable lower middle class now but we grew up very poor on food stamps and money is still a constant struggle for all of us. I’m glad that apparently people at the bottom have benefitted under Biden but I frankly don’t believe it.
Unions in my city are always fighting tooth and nail to get livable wages and most don’t succeed. I know many people in lower paying positions at my company who left and moved because they tried to get a livable wage and failed, so they went elsewhere because the only way to get any semblance of a good wage anymore is to quit and start anew. Everyone I talk to has suffered under inflation since 2020, without exception.
Again, if some people have benefitted that’s great. But I just haven’t seen it. What I have seen is year over year the C-suite giving themselves 10%+ raises while the rest of us get increases under inflation. That’s not Biden’s fault directly, but he sure hasn’t done anything else to make it any easier on us.