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Tbh, yeah. I think the reason Biden is a tough sell is that his presidency has been a continuation of a decades long tradition of not dealing with the real problems in our society. The president isn't exactly at fault, because it's the legislature that refuses to meaningfully deal with any real issues and the courts that enforce that learned helplessness, but they catch the blame because they're the closest we have to an HMFIC.
What bothers me is that the Biden admin seems resigned to this fate and has now made addressing hidden/shitty charges a priority for their election platform. Like, cool, but we've got 99 fires raging, and hidden, shitty charges MIGHT be number 99. The Biden administration has done a lot of things that I agree with, but the only even remotely meaningful change has been the Amtrak revitalization which, tbh, could have been much more aggressive. I'll also give Biden credit for (seemingly) starting to right the ship in terms of federal agency appointments. It's like, the ship is fucking capsizing, but the electrician has showed up and he's going to finally fix that flickering light. Like, okay, great, but that's not the priority at the moment, in case you haven't noticed. I'd like it a lot more if the Biden administration was pounding the fucking table when they're blocked on attacking big policy issues. Put the republicans on the defense, entreat the American people to get involved and call their legislators, scream this shit from the rooftops, act like it's a problem and you're passionate about fixing it. Instead, we're getting probably flimsy legislation on hidden fees.
I know sure as fuck I won't get this stuff from the Republicans, so I might still vote for Joe, but it's hard to be enthusiastic when there's no appetite for having the big fights that we really need to be having.