• PrettyLights@lemmy.world
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    5 个月前

    Then why is one of his campaign promises written as: “As president he will decriminalize cannabis…”

    Is his campaign promising things he doesn’t have the power to do?

    • lennybird@lemmy.world
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      Yes this is literally par for the course for every single presidential campaign in history.

      They promise what they’ll do. They don’t say try to do because that’s been tested in marketing and certainty sounds better. Nevertheless it’s not Biden’s fault his agenda for what he’s been voted into office on is being blocked by the opposition for poor reasons.

      The question isn’t why isn’t Biden doing this, the issue is why are Republicans blocking it and why aren’t you trying to convince them and their supporters?

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        If I can’t believe any of the good campaign promises from biden because everyone lies, why should we take the scary campaign promises of republicans seriously?

        It really leads to apathy in the voter base.

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          I’m really struggling to understand how you don’t understand how this works. I have to conclude you’re doing this in bad faith, given you implied your age is pretty high.

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              That they aren’t promises but goals. The Biden administration (and about every administration) works towards everything they say they’ll do, how much they get done is determined by their majority and the willingness of the opposition to work with them.

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                  You’ve already been told this in an earlier reply by someone else.

                  They promise what they’ll do. They don’t say try to do because that’s been tested in marketing and certainty sounds better.

                  President’s aren’t dictators, but they do have an amount of control of pushing for specific legislation, and the big “promises” are about trying to push this legislation.

                  Other promises can get stalled even if it’s within the president’s authority, like Biden’s student debt relief was stalled by the Supreme Court.

                  • PrettyLights@lemmy.world
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                    Other promises can get stalled even if it’s within the president’s authority, like Biden’s student debt relief was stalled by the Supreme Court.

                    I think the student relief is a good example of his team making an effort to keep the promise, rather than marijuana where they’re barely trying.

                    When bidens relief was blocked, they immediately went back to the drawing board and started pushing alternative relief seriously.

                    He could be doing so much more for marijuana if he wanted to. Maybe he’s saving it for right before the election which is terrible if so as there are lots of people being prosecuted and losing jobs today. Holding it for an election bump would further show his lack of sincerity in the promise or goal.

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          For the same reason we take Biden seriously: Legalization has progressed in universally all blue states, has it not?

          Ergo, you answered your own question: promises often come to fruition.

          So let’s not risk letting Republican promises become reality, such as the promise of overturning Roe… Righhtttt?