Out of Plato's Cave: Joe Biden's speech reminds me why he didn't win the presidency

Ya know, we got a nazi in the white house, and a lot of times, we're like "gee, how did we get here? were the democrats really that bad where the people legitimately voted for this psychopath over the admittedly crappy, bland, and mediocre option?" And then a democrat opens their mouth and it's like "oh yeah, this is why the country hates them."

So...Biden gave a speech tonight. And it was cringe. And it reminds me....why I don't like Joe Biden. The topic was social security and defending it. And....the opening was weird, and kinda spoke of this weird out of touch propagandistic rhetoric I've come to associate with the modern democratic party. The guy opening for him started going on about the "dignity of work" and how Biden created so many jobs and how no one defends social security more than him (uh....FDR? he created it). And...yeah. It just came off as weird. Like, yeah, the dems keep touting his economic record like he's the best president we ever had on economics, and he's not. He's the least crappy one since the new deal era, but that's not saying much. Sure, he had a strong conventional economy. However, he did nothing to earn it. In 2021, the economy recovered from covid closures, quickly got "overheated" as they call it, and inflation happened. The inflation caused havoc, which Biden was blamed for, also unfairly. At the same time, Biden seemed to just kinda blow off inflation. People wanted more money, they wanted higher living standards, and Biden just never delivered. he failed on that. Biden's presidency shows that you can have a strong conventional economy but if people aren't feeling good about it, that people aren't gonna vote for you. This guy is like Jimmy Carter 2.0. He really is. presided over inflation, acts like he had the best economy ever, didn't actually have an economy people were happy with. The dems don't get it. They REALLY don't get it. And it's getting scary now. For all the blame being thrown at voters and the whole "the party can't fail it can only be failed" mentality at the democrats, ultimately, the democrats are to blame for their own mess. The voters werent happy with them. I wasn't even that happy with him. I just understood the alternative was fricking mental. But sometimes when you feel like things are just that hopeless, you vote for the change agent, even if he's destructive. Which is how we got here.

But yeah. When I hear Biden talk, I can't help but think "old timey" joe. Somewhere, his mind still thinks it's 1955 or something. He talks about how jobs have dignity because that's what his old man said. He talks about how seniors work all of their life and when they get old and cant work any more, they should have an income they rely on, and yes, they should. But keep in mind, that's kinda the bare minimum. These kinds of democrats think work is part of the social contract. Like, you spend all your life working and THEN when you're old and beat up from a lifetime of working, THEN you get a check. I told you guys the other day that yeah, my parents are on social security at this point. They're old. My dad worked all of his life, got ditched by his industry as he got older, he developed back issues from working so ahrd and couldnt do it any more. He ended up going into lighter, but still demanding work, and eventually he retired.

And you know what? He can't even fully enjoy life because of the injuries he sustained from his job. He literally has back issues from his job. He hated that job. But it paid money we needed to survive. And yeah, he suffered the consequences for it. Joe Biden loves to talk about how work has dignity, but I never encounter people who talk like this IRL. Most people I know hate their jobs. or if they like them, they still hate their bosses, their leadership structures, etc. Either way they dont talk about work having dignity. Even if some of them think they'd be bored if they didn't work (and yes, I know people who say that), many of them aren't really happy working. And no one uses this weird "dignity of work" rhetoric. The left needs to stop talking like this. It's the most out of touch propagandistic nonsense they ever heard. It reminds me of the family guy and the amish going on about the joy of doing chores. No one in the real world thinks that, it's only these weird belief systems that brainwash people into that stuff.

Like, really, Biden and the dems are high on their own supply. They built up this weird north korea-esque belief system around themselves and how great they are and don't understand that MOST NORMIES DO NOT AGREE. Even if people tolerate dems, it's mostly to avoid the guy who we know to be a FRICKING NUTCASE. We are literally voting for this guy to avoid an open fascist in the white house at this point. And we are FAILING. WE FAILED. And watching the establishment dems flail around is one of the most frustrating things ever. How do you F up so badly that you open your mouth and our first thought it "gee, no wonder the other guy won"? Seriously. That's where we're at.

Btw, what do i expect from them? Look at bernie and AOC on their stopping oligarchy tour. bernie is filling stadiums in as far away from an election year as we get. And AOC is clearly being groomed as a successor. Bernie is all might, AOC is midorya. And I have disagreements with AOC, just as i have disagreements with bernie. Including on "the dignity of work". I've expressed them on this blog before. And I think AOC still has a little of that jobist delusion. But at least she fights to make workers' lives better and does it in a convincing way.

I mean, to be fair, Biden did call out the stuff trump was doing pretty good, but other than that, his speech was as meh as it came. It wasn't as rambly as it could've been. He didn't have a major malfunction like he did on the campaign trail. But still, like, these guys clearly live in their own little world detached from the rest of us, and have weird beliefs most people dont in the real world. And it's kinda scary. Because these guys are the opposition. They WERE the opposition. And yeah, seeing them talk again really reminds me of how we got here.

I will post the maps again. Never forget.

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