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People being dissatisfied with politics is the very first step required to actually change anything.

I don't think there is a shortage of dissatisfaction with politics in this country. There might be some imaginary country where if everyone would just get disaffected and cynical enough, the problems would get dealt with, but I think most of America's problem at this point is in the action piece.

Yes, the current administration has done some good things, but none of it is nearly enough, and we should still be plenty mad about all of it.

Plenty mad at the ones who are responsible, and invested in solutions that will move it in the right direction, yes. The reason I disagreed with the original poster is not that I don't want to fix things, it is that their proposed solution is mostly disaffectation instead of anything that will be that solution.

Specific side note: you say reduce income inequality, but regular people are way worse off financially than their parents were and that's not going away without some real change and we haven't actually seen anything moving in that direction

Low-income wages went up 32% since 2019, as a result of a stronger NLRB backstopping a bunch of union gains and the results of spending a trillion dollars of increased corporate taxes on domestic manufacturing. Covid inflation ate up most but not all of that boost; if Biden hadn't been handed an unfolding apocalypse with a lot of people still dependent on Covid assistance to live, I think it would have been a much more dramatic change, but it's definitely not nothing. He also spent about 10 times what anyone else has spent on climate change, putting us on track for a 40% reduction in emissions by 2030.

Is any of that enough? Fuck no. But it's also definitely not "haven't actually seen anything." You may not have seen anything, because I think a lot of Lemmy posters are employed in tech, and that sector has still been a shit show where people aren't keeping up with inflation. But the working class is actually doing substantially better than they were even before Covid, even under historic inflation. That's pretty fuckin unusual. And shitting on it (saying those working-class people don't represent "regular people"), or saying that because we haven't undone multiple generations of fuckery in the space of a couple of years, it doesn't count, is not something I agree with.

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