12/1/2023 0 Comments I believe in you tad cooperThe purpose of listening to someone else’s story should not necessarily be identification, but understanding. I think this is important because a lot of us forget the power of stories to make us feel things about characters who are not like us, who have experienced things that we never will. I feel like when I say ‘relatable’ what I really mean is ‘resonant.’ I don’t want characters who I feel are like me, I want characters who have emotions so strong I can feel them through the page. You wanna fix the system? Great, I’m onboard, but smearing the only people trying to help is not going to get you anywhere. Democrats are working within a broken system and doing the best they can. I’m just really sick of the pseudo-leftist takes that characterize Biden and the Democrats as ‘conservative’ or assertions that they don’t have policy platforms except 'we’re not the Republicans.’ Such commentary sounds intelligent but only in the way Libertarian commentary sounds intelligent: you have to not think critically at all to some to such absurd conclusions. It won’t make splashy news headlines, you’re not even going to find MSNBC going GUESS WHAT THE POORS ARE DOING BETTER all the time because it’s really not a sexy story. The media is not catering to that bottom quintile – we don’t have the expendable income their advertisers are seeking.īut if you want to elect a POTUS who is honestly helping the people who need it the most, you should be an enthusiastic Biden supporter. The problem with the poorest people being the one who benefits the most? Is that it doesn’t resonate as a media story. The Biden Economy has been very, very good to the bottom 20% – I know because I am in that quintile and under the Biden Presidency I have seen multiple SNAP increases, the best COLA adjustments for Social Security in four decades, Medicare now pays my utilities, and because I’m part of the Affordable Connectivity Program, they can now never turn off my internet even if I can’t afford to pay the bill. In economics we divide the population into income quintiles – top 20%, bottom 20%, etc
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