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[-] WhatsThePoint@lemmy.world 11 points 6 months ago

Policy takes years to implement and typically isn’t that visible in the short term. Considering the overwhelming opposition he has had from the Republican house, a conservative supreme court, and a billionaire lobbying and foundation network with vast political power, he’s done a surprising amount. So many people think presidents have unilateral powers that they just don’t in our system of government. These are the same checks that kept Trump from enacting some of his wilder flights of insanity in office. You can’t measure government change the way you stated because government just moves more gradually. Sure, so much more needs to be done, but expecting one president to course correct it as drastically in less than 4 years as would take to be blatant to your daily life is unrealistic. Trump gutted the EPA and other regulatory agencies in his presidency as much as he could get away with. Budget cuts and weakened power can’t just be reversed overnight. So Biden had to undo the damage then attempt to broaden their powers while the supreme court ruled on limiting them in his presidency. It’s not as black and white as you state. Biden isn’t perfect on a lot if issues, but he’s done way more for the environment than I thought he could with the head winds he’s facing. I will say this, they need to better job getting the things that have done out to people. With a news media who is owned by the same companies fighting change and the fractured state of information delivery in general, that will be a challenge.

[-] fireweed@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

Okay but my original point still stands: he's not doing enough (whether it's because he doesn't care to or because he literally can't).

[-] WhatsThePoint@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago

I agree more needs done. I just don’t like when it’s portrayed as from a lack of trying or caring. There is just a lot of psychotic billionaires out there pushing against change who don’t care what happens as long as their power is intact. We are becoming so close to an oligarchy due to all the dark money pushing against change. I’ve seen the entire way issues are discussed shift drastically extreme right in my life time and if you read books like “Dark Money” by Jane Mayer, you know that came from billionaire foundations. Biden has done more than Obama or Clinton for many progressive causes and it’s so overlooked. No one person in our government can do it with our system but if we tear down the few trying because they couldn’t just make it happen immediately in a complex power structure we are only shooting ourselves in the foot in my opinion.

[-] fireweed@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

Where in my original comment am I "tearing down" Biden or anyone else? I was addressing the premise of the article, which is "few have heard about Biden's climate policies, even those who care most about issue." My point is that if enough were being done to address the climate crisis, everyone would have heard about it because it would be impactful and revolutionary enough to be impossible to not know about. There is no subtle or incremental way to divert us from our current trajectory toward disaster.

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