The Biden administration, maybe due to looking at aggregate statistics, would insist the economy was doing well. People on the ground could not (and cannot) afford healthcare, education, food, and housing, even working 2+ jobs.
Why didn't Biden do something immediately, effectively, and very publicly about the coordinated pricing on rentals? It would be just, good policy, very important to citizens and opportunity and the economy, and great politics. He would be their champion. Instead the RealPage lawsuit has been out of the news so long that I didn't know if it was still alive until today, and only after the election, with a couple weeks remaining, does Biden sue the landlords.
I've met many people who complain but none I've asked have even heard of RealPage or their scheme. The greatest power is controlling what people know. With the Internet, you can fool all the people all the time.
Back in '71, one year before Biden was elected to the US Senate, President Nixon was on a very public "Inflation is Public Enemy #1" rampage. In '72, Nixon was re-elected with over sixty percent of the popular vote.
One could snark about Biden be senile...but at this point, I've mostly concluded that the Democratic Party's core constituency wanted to get out of power, and stay out. That's far less work, and doesn't require them to venture out of their own little well-to-do ideological bubble.
OldGuyInTheClub|1 year ago
mmooss|1 year ago
Why didn't Biden do something immediately, effectively, and very publicly about the coordinated pricing on rentals? It would be just, good policy, very important to citizens and opportunity and the economy, and great politics. He would be their champion. Instead the RealPage lawsuit has been out of the news so long that I didn't know if it was still alive until today, and only after the election, with a couple weeks remaining, does Biden sue the landlords.
I've met many people who complain but none I've asked have even heard of RealPage or their scheme. The greatest power is controlling what people know. With the Internet, you can fool all the people all the time.
bell-cot|1 year ago
Back in '71, one year before Biden was elected to the US Senate, President Nixon was on a very public "Inflation is Public Enemy #1" rampage. In '72, Nixon was re-elected with over sixty percent of the popular vote.
One could snark about Biden be senile...but at this point, I've mostly concluded that the Democratic Party's core constituency wanted to get out of power, and stay out. That's far less work, and doesn't require them to venture out of their own little well-to-do ideological bubble.
ChrisArchitect|1 year ago
cyanydeez|1 year ago