• the economy is still pretty shitty for most Americans. broadcasting how good it is for the few that it’s actually amazing… is not going to win many friends.
• Biden is pushing for military support of a genocidal, apartheid state.
• his support for abortion is… less actual support and more just him keeping his mouth shut. he’s personally apposed to it. One wonders if we’d have RvW codified in law if a progressive was in office.
• afaik, none of the student loan debt that’s gotten forgiven wasn’t already supposed to be forgiven… years, or even decades, ago. he’s done very little to actually lower the cost of tuition and such, or to curtail the blatant financial fraud that kept people locked into crippling debt.
• climate change, They’re also basically corporate love notes. the funding for climate change, largely is a lot of tax incentives for companies to do what they were going to do anyhow… while also not directly addressing the issues of climate change… (or, directly counter to it- see re-opening the Willow Project in Alaska. after promising no new oil drilling…)
• he’s old, and not nearly as progressive as more than half the people that would be voting DNC. (note I’m very carefully not saying ‘democrats’, because there are a lot of people my age who are progressive independents.we still largely vote blue, but we don’t trust institutions because… why should we?)

Punted a Bork nomination and had to eat the Thomas one instead. Sucked all round & Bork openly against Civil Rights & Privacy which would have been at odds with Roe.

His handling of Israel’s genocide is a big one. This isn’t just because America, Biden’s handling of this mess has been uniquely horrible, and it’s losing him votes.