Yeah I don't think the issue is really "doing something", it is effectively communicating what has been done. We do not have a press capable or willing to communicate that. I mean look at Figure 1 - https://home.treasury.gov/news/featured-stories/unpacking-the-boom-in-us-construction-of-manufacturing-facilities . The disconnect in public perception is a rift of several billion parsecs, feels like.
I guess - I mean it works but govt subsidies for big industry is not like the exciting sort of thing that makes the press, and is such a small patch on the big issues. Their weed policy was to pardon like a thousand people and otherwise change nothing , their healthcare policy is same old same old , they did very little to tax billionaires or fight inequality , everything they said they wanted to do was conveniently blocked , the people calling for a green new deal get iced out. The student loans was blocked by the courts so they shrugged. Roe v Wade ended while Dems had the presidency and they shrugged. Trans people are being attacked while Dems had the presidency and they shrugged. Legit, the only things they did was CHIPS ($$ to billionaires) IRA ($$ to billionaires + some actually good climate stuff), $$ for more highway lanes and billionaires, and as much funding to Israel as they could possibility manage. Not sure what's really there to brag about.
I don't think Joe ran on it, but Kamala did announce that she would legalize weed veryyyyy late in the campaign, to the point where even if the press would have been willing to make a big deal of it, it wouldn'ta mattered. The campaign was.. it was OK. Almost! It was almost OK. It was certainly not great, but again, clearly Trump has proven that the quality of campaign largely doesn't matter. Like five days ago Walmart was like "oh btw, tariffs would probably be mostly passed on to the customer, simply, yeah", and it was just... no one's job during campaign season to explain that. Nobody's. Same guy we gave "reasonably explain what mass deportations likely entail" to. Again, the press's true failure in this moment cannot be overstated. But yes, as elsewhere has been mentioned, the dems are definitely a controlled opposition party. There was just a quick wrest within the oligarchy, the south africans struck in the twilight of the campaign multiple times, and with large investments. Unsolicited, semi-concrete predictions, you say? Great idea. I suspect they'll 25th Amendment Trump, but I don't know when. I don't know when I'd want them to, or if. They're all too socially inept to realize that JD doesn't have the juice, and maybe handing Ozempic Jr. "whatever [donuts] work[s], I guess" after Trump has done god knows what for even one year is gonna be like Peter Theil's suicide, for starters. No, no we are in no man's land. And one thing, li'l silver lining, is that I don't have to give one flying fuck what the dems do or say anymore, because that's all about to be completely irrelevant. But thank god, nuclear war averted, Ukraine will be surrendered af and Russia will threaten Moldova and the Finns, and fuck, we might join 'em, maybe bomb Mexico, it's big peace time cunts. edit: history will probably show that the Israel shit was singularly Biden. Singularly. Yeah I'm real torn up to see him go. This fucking country deserves itself, honestly. It's fine
Found it! Its not on her main issues page, instead its buried as point three here: https://kamalaharris.com/agenda/ Read that and tell me they're making the media's job easy. Kamala also has the opposite problem of Trump. We -know- Trump's going to do things so we can assume he'll do our favorite subset but be blocked on the things we think are awful. Like, surely he's not ~really~ going to . . . etc etc Whereas Kamala can say whatever but we all know she's going to not care about our favorite thing. Maybe she'll do a tiny bit of it? Which tiny bit?
I mean sure she could say she will but she's said a lot of things. I don't think anyone believed she would legalize weed. I certainly didn't. Never heard that part of her campaign before the election fwiw, but someone online showed me where it was hidden: on a four paragraph part of her site where she said what she'd do for black men mainly talking about how much she knows how much they like bitcoin. I hate NYT as much as the next guy but if her messaging was awful you can only blame the media so much. Edit: its nowhere to be found here: https://kamalaharris.com/issues/ Nor is anything remotely comprehensible. Its ten thousand words long and carefully written to say nothing. I dare you to find anything interesting there to talk about.
For that matter, what have the dems accomplished in my lifetime? I guess Obamacare which despite being half assed garbage ripping off the Republicans plan entirely is still better than what was there. Not sure I can come up with a second example. They let the Voter Rights Act die with them at the helm though. And did nothing for BLM. And shot the Occupy protestors. And voted on the nonprofit killing bill.