A thing we like to point out is how people who don’t really care about the outcomes have the privilege to be unaffected.
There’s another thing, too. When the positive outcomes have helped others but maybe less so you, so you don’t think those outcomes are important.
16 million more people with health care coverage
Significantly lower health care expenses for seniors
700 million-some free Covid tests sent through the mail
The most pro-union NLRB general counsel in history
People convicted of domestic violence now banned from owning guns
and so on
Considering that Biden started with tons of things he had to reverse just to get back to even and still managed to accomplish a lot of positive things is also important. People (here in particular) tend to take one thing and focus on it.
I totally understand people being disappointed in all the things that didn’t happen. That’s natural. That’s politics in a massively divided government. But the aggressive despair to opt out is self-defeating.
Like I don’t understand the brand of lefty who wants to suit up for revolution but thinks one election is supposed to fix everything forever and they never have to participate again.
