A lot of my left-leaning friends didn't even end up voting for him and are going to criticize pretty much anybody but Bernie, so I always treat a lot of what they say with a grain of salt without further information. I hope that Biden gets a fair shake and a chance to get his game on when he gets into office because he's being left a big bag of flaming poo thanks to Trump and he's not cooperating well with the transition.

Seeing if anybody here knows what they are talking about. Judging by the responses, I guess it wasn't a good idea.

as congress allows. We still don't know who will control the senate, so that is a big factor. Meanwhile, his highest priority will be to get the pandemic under control and get the economy up and running, while reestablishing our diplomatic ties around the world. You can be sure that there will be a handful of Never-Biden liberals, who will find fault with everything he does. I believe we've seen this movie before when Obama took office.

Biden will not be able to please everyone and being he has been in government a long time, he is fully aware of that. You win some, you lose some, and you cut your losses wherever you can. Not terribly sexy, but if you live in a democracy, that is how change comes about in the real world.

We need our idealists and activists. They inspire us and show us what is possible. Then we need our pragmatists, who can make those dreams reality. However, the reality doesn't always match the original ideal 100%, hence that worn out, but very true cliché - "Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good".

And for all your disgruntled liberal friends, I would suggest they put their progressive energies into local, state, and congressional races. That is where almost all change originates - from the bottom up, not the top down.

Look how close the House is now. Plus best case scenario, the Senate will be 50-50. How can anything progressive get past moderate to conservative Democrats in Congress?

They are the opposition. When Dems come to a consensus in the House and pass a bill on to the republicans, that's where the logjam begins.

But best cast, the Senate will be 50-50 tomorrow, with Harris as the tiebreaker. You're not getting anything progressive passed from Manchin.

happening. Give the man a chance.

factions of our party need to accept this.

You're saying essentially what I said.

"Reach a consensus" being the key phrase.

still here. Never going away

Better to have a majority and have to time things down to pass, than have a solid progressive delegation - and lack majority control.

still, very distasteful politicians, in MY book.

I think that they're referring more to things that he can do at the Executive level

committed political suicide by failing to stop Donald Trump and elect Hillary Clinton. We barely survived this and have lost a great deal of power because of it.

We dont have the numbers

with this congress? Even if we win the Senate, we will not be able to
remove the filibuster. And our majority in the house is tight with purple
seats being at major risk in two years. Biden will do well to pass a few
moderate pieces of legislation like infrastructure in the next two years.

"I have a lot of left-wing friends on Facebook/Twitter..."

At best, both are fonts of people's opinion, unburdened by actual fact. At worst, they are cesspools of disinformation.

If you trust your friends, ask for their sources. So far, the sources I see for these points are "anonymous" sources, or concern trolls.

because, like with Trumpers, some of them have their minds up and they won't budge or show their homework

narrow, so if someone conflated those plans with something more widespread, I'd assume they weren't paying attention.

I mean, he isn't even in office yet.

Let's at least let him put his family photos on his desk in the Oval Office and start rescinding Trump's worst EOs before the juicebox revolutionaries start whining that they haven't gotten their ponies yet.

I'm not saying that I believe or agree with this but just wondering where it may be coming from- if it has any basis or not.

Maybe give him some time to focus on the pandemic and vaccine distribution.

It's not like we're having a national emergency or anything.

to 50k or something like that.

He has also said he won't be able to reverse Trump's detention policies right away. Remember some of the Obama era immigration policies were kind of a step backward (imho). I inferred from what Biden said is that at least initially he will go back to having asylum/migration cases decided in the originating country via US Embassy before anyone actually comes to the US.

Thanks. I was just seeking information, not looking to start anything but I think others might have misinterpreted my post as such.

Delaware is HQ to lots of financial institutions, constituents Biden represented for years. It's a plus Biden is willing to cancel student loan debt at all imo.

I mean, really...

The "many people are saying" crap has been old for a very long time.

And here I thought it was bad when after Obama had been in office about a month I saw titles on Common Dreams like “ Feel Betrayed Yet?”

it's frustrating to see

priority list and it's not that he backed off but lowered those issues on the priority list.

Consider it was this sort of thing that gave us Trump when some chose not vote, vote for Stein, stay home etc rather than vote for Hillary Clinton. Vote Blue no matter who.

Not asking for anyone..

He's not even in office yet. People like that love to complain about the Democratic Party, and they will invent complains to do it.

Fuck this noise.

Seriously.

so this number can he played on him.

& Harris WON.. how much did they help that?

Think of the Deep Shit we'd be in If they had their way.

Biden will have a very hard time unless we win the Senate, and they still can filibuster. Important to not lose sight of progressive goals, but what can pass now may not be what we want.

People tend to associate with those of like mind. It's human nature.

Then you can analyze whether "they're miscontruing and/or taking out of context." Just sayin.

Is there a problem with that?

He didn't make any promises he'd "back off" from once in office.