President Biden has achieved a lot on the economy - especially falling inflation and a great many more jobs. Biden has also won several legislative victories. These will limit the rise in prescription drug prices, expand care options for veterans, slow climate change and rebuild the nation's infrastructure.
Still, his approval ratings are among the lowest in American history aside from those of Trump and Reagan. There is a misconception that Biden is accomplishing nothing. This is false.
Why is Biden's popularity so low?
Read more here https://robertreich.substack.com/p/bidens-state-of-the-union-and-the
My own comment on this is:
1. Just like in Sweden after the 2022 election, right-wing populist, bloated lies have great influence, such as Trump's false message before the 2020 election that Biden would be weak and incapable of action because of his age. This age discrimination against Biden has even liberal programs like Saturday Night Live ungratefully kept alive.
The great power of capital
2. Capital has great power over political opinion in the USA, i.a. through opportunities to buy the votes of elected officials but also through the dominance of right-wing propaganda institutes in the US such as Fox news, all advertising and the low level of education of the American people. American propaganda has long incited poor, often low-educated Americans to vote right because in case they get rich, they don't want to pay for another hypothetically alleged poor incompetent's welfare dependency.
Widespread, unmet needs of the American people
3. There is a legitimate dissatisfaction of the American people because the politics of the Democrats have been very right-wing and economically elitist for a very long time. It takes time to win back the trust of low- and middle-income earners, even for a progressive reformist like Biden
4. Although Biden has done a lot of progressive things, the conditions of low- and middle-income earners in the United States are hopelessly backward. The right to work is minimal. The work ethic is maximum. Acquiring a house or a university education places an enormous burden of debt on the individual. The waiting period expenses, even for those with health insurance in the USA, can amount to several thousand during a hospital visit. Outinsurance often to a certain, premature death, affects even people with the very best health insurance policies. There are many more flaws in the welfare of the American people. As we saw in the 1930s and as we see today. When the people have it bad and the progressive parties do not clearly care about low and middle income earners, these can often become very or extreme right.
But feel free to talk about all the good things Biden has done and is doing, so maybe the chances of the Democrats continuing to the left on economic issues will continue.
In Sweden, the Social Democrats and to some extent the Left Party have to break with the idea that welfare does not work. This arose through disinformation from the Right during the oil crisis in the 1970s. Without better conditions for low- and middle-income earners, more and more voters risk becoming right-wing or far-right.
More about the United States and how we everywhere in the world can afford welfare and the climate
- Anti-democrats on the rise among the Republicans in the USA
- Inflation is falling in the US and investment is increasing
- Swedish wages are 30 percent too low – The ironclad wage law delivers
- The continued rise of the Social Democrats requires equality
- No government deficits – society's unnecessary straitjacket