When Joe Biden huddled with a group of historians in March, the conversation revolved around thinking big like one of his predecessors, Franklin Roosevelt, architect of the New Deal. Biden, it seemed, wanted to join him in the first rank of transformational US presidents.
Six months later, a very different gathering took place this week outside the White House gates. Five young climate activists, holding signs and sitting on folding chairs, began an indefinite hunger strike. It was a visceral expression of disgust at what they see as Biden’s willingness to think small and break his promises.
“Young people turned out in record numbers to elect him on his climate commitments,” said Nikayla Jefferson, 24, an activist helping the quietly determined hunger strikers on the edge of Lafayette Park. “But over this past month he’s almost given up. He’s not being a leader in this moment in the way that we need him to deliver.”
A growing sense of betrayal is shared by campaigners for everything from gun rights to immigration reform, from racial justice to voting rights, who saw Democrats’ governing majority as a once-in-a-generation opportunity. Instead party infighting has put Biden’s agenda in jeopardy and could result in voter disillusionment in next year’s midterm elections.
The 46th president came into office promising to attack four crises – coronavirus, climate, economy and racial justice – but has seen his approval rating sink to 42% after colliding with some harsh political and economic realities.
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Frankly, any of those who voted for him are obviously ignorant, perhaps so hateful of the right that they were willing to put an obviously declining, ailing half wit into the most powerful positionin the world!
Their agenda is ignorant of facts, much like the covid shot information, twisted, changed regularly to fit the agenda, but without real science, in fact ignoring and lying about science. These fools need a cause so badly they'll fall for anything, regardless how stupid it may make them look to the rest of the world. Now they are disappointed like the blacks were with the POS Obama, who they believed will give them riches.....how disappointing it must be that he made himself extremely wealthy, leaving his "brothers" behind.
These are nothing but drama queens, they think they stand for something, but they know nothing because they aren't looking for the truth, just attention!
I still shake my head when I think about all the seemingly intelligent people I know who voted for this half brain, just because they "always vote democrat", or they "just could not vote for THAT terrible man"! I am so tempted to ask them how they feel now as the crap is starting to really hit the fan, but at least some are still pretending that the half wit is doing a good job, while complaining about gas and food prices, the border, Afghanistan, worried about their heating bills, etc. Go figure!