My suggestion would be doing something that improves someone's life.
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My suggestion would be doing something that improves someone's life. Anyone's, really. Even just a little bit. Gotta start somewhere
After major 2024 defeats, the Democratic Party searches for a new direction
The Democratic Party begins 2025 with several looming questions. Among them: who will lead its national party apparatus, and how it will handle President-elect Donald Trump's second term.
NPR (www.npr.org)
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@jalefkowit even as we speak they're trying to work out what would make them popular. "i know, we'll completely deregulate health insurance" / "i think we should get rid of the minimum wage" / "deport brown people!" / "we could invade canada, that's popular now"
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@dysfun furiously drafting a non-binding resolution calling for affordable access to pickleball courts
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Jason Lefkowitzreplied to Jason Lefkowitz last edited by [email protected]
Got a reply saying that Biden's problem was that he had world-shaking legislative accomplishments, but people care less about that than they do about professional wrestling.
This put me in mind of something I wrote 15 years ago about Barack Obama, which I think applies equally well to Joe Biden. If you pass big legislation, but ordinary people see no change in their daily lives, why would you expect them to think you'd done anything?
The Tragedy Of Barack Obama - Just Well Mixed
Greatness is measured only in results -- a lesson that the President may be learning too late
Just Well Mixed (jasonlefkowitz.net)
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There are some signs that Biden eventually figured this out, but of course he did so far too late.
