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Is It Really That Surprising The Democrats Lost Virginia?

That’s what happens when you stay wishy-washy while in power

Alfie Jane
3 min readNov 4, 2021
Photo by Mirah Curzer on Unsplash

As I mentioned in a previous article, I didn’t like Joe Biden from the start. I felt his whole campaign was too similar to Hilary’s, and he would make the Democrats lose big time.

But when you have someone as awful as Trump sitting in office, anyone would’ve won against him. While I wanted a combination of Bernie and Warren, I settled for Biden in the end, fearing he’d help the Democrats lose in 2020.

So far, I’m proven right. I’ve seen Biden get wishy-washy on campaign promises he made while running, and he let Joe Manchin run amok after winning. Manchin’s gotten to the point that I’ll be shocked if he doesn’t become a Republican after 2022.

When someone has that amount of power starts disrupting progress, do you think it’s going to put faith in the people? It’s going to make them regret electing the officials in the first place.

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