The Media Still Doesn’t Get Biden Voters
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A good in-depth discussion of media bias in political reporting, or why is it that Biden voters are encouraged to understand an empathize with Trump voters but Trump voters are never asked to understand Biden voters?
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He meant well, and I acknowledge that. But he was and is a fervent institutionalist that doesn't entertain the notion that our Constitutional framework is failing or has failed. He's a true believer, which is why he spent all of his political capital and almost both of his terms trying to appease his proudly intransigent opposition, trying to play an honorable game by honorable rules that had been abandoned long before he became a Senator.
I think this is where Biden's decades of congressional experience shows. He does the same bipartisan dog-and-pony show that Obama did, but Biden has been more effective at actually getting legislation passed.
Experience is more valuable, but less flash than Hope. I Guarantee if we sat through a Bernie Sanders Presidency you'd have supporters upset that he didn't do anything he said he'd do. These people aren't elected to be dictator. People need to agree and compromise. It bothers me how like minded the far sides of each party are in the notion that compromise is a dirty word.
I don't have any evidence for this but purely speculation on my part: racism can explain a good amount of that. Biden has in the 90s voted for "tough on crime bills", he is the definition of political establishment, and is a white man from Wilmington. Obama definitely is not textbook underpriveleged but he doesn't have those points that biden does