Counter Punch Article RatingInstead of Trashing Cornel West, Here's what Democrats Could Do if they Actually Cared about Social and Economic Justice
Jun 23, 2023 View Original Article
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| "They would end fossil fuels immediately and transform our energy infrastructure into green and renewable energy." | Positive | 24% Conservative |
| "And the recent debt-ceiling crisis of June 2023 resulted in even more cuts to social programs- the bipartisan McCarthy-Biden deal cut food stamps to some 750,000 adults and canceled the multi-year moratorium on student debt repayment from the CARES Act, forcing millions of students into debt repayment this summer." | Negative | -10% Liberal |
| "Meanwhile, this bipartisan deal actually increased funding to the military, border patrol, and fast-tracked even more climate-killing, fossil fuel projects like the highly protested Mountain Valley Pipeline." | Negative | -10% Liberal |
| "On this list of things he could do without Congressional approval were items such as: legalizing marijuana, canceling nearly all student debt, shutting down oil and gas leases on federal lands, strengthening unions by giving federal contracts to workplaces with collective-bargaining agreements, neutralizing corporate power using existing federal agencies, and remaking agricultural and food policy." | Negative | -10% Liberal |
| "There have been many broken campaign promises and major disappointments coming from the Biden presidency: failing to forgive student loan debt; failing to pass a $15 minimum wage, failing to implement a public option for national healthcare; continuing to privatize Medicare, kicking over one million people of Medicaid; kicking some 750,000 off of food stamps after the debt-ceiling deal; fast-tracking some of the most carbon-intensive, oil and gas projects in recent history; and ending COVID provisions and privatizing the COVID response, just to name a few." | Negative | -36% Liberal |
| "These increases in police and military spending are especially offensive, given the mass voter support Biden received from the street protests and the Black Lives Matter movement." | Negative | -82% Liberal |
| "Under Biden, we've seen budget increases to military, border patrol and police funding, even in the face of horrible abuses of police power, like the murder of Tortuguita in Cop City, Atlanta." | Negative | -88% Liberal |
| "And if he doesn't live, has a vice president whose approval rating is worse than his?This pattern of silencing any and all dissent against the corporate Democratic Party is extremely noteworthy, especially when public polls reveal very high levels of dissatisfaction with President Biden." | Positive | 22% Conservative |
| "We know that Gore won Florida in 2000." | Positive | 14% Conservative |
| "For an incredibly politically polarized nation- one that is clearly hungry for populist politics following decades of austerity and neoliberalism, Biden (on his own) could have implemented these kinds of bold policies to support the working-class and drastically increase his own popularity." | Positive | 10% Conservative |
| "In addition to all these broken campaign promises, Biden could have passed any number of populist reforms in his first term that would have soothed working-class angst across the red-blue political divide." | Positive | 6% Conservative |
| "If a full, fair statewide recount had taken place, Gore would have become president." | Positive | 2% Conservative |
| "In the case of Bernie Sanders, he was by far the most popular candidate in the 2020 presidential primaries, polling far above the rest for most of the primary season - appealing to registered Democrats, Republicans and Independents." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "In fact, Biden's approval rating is lower than 12 out of 13 most recent presidents, at this point in their presidency." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "That's Brother Bernie, the Squad, etc." | Negative | -4% Liberal |
| "On the eve of Biden's presidency, the American Prospect published this Day One Agenda list for Biden, outlining what he had the power to do with and without congressional approval." | Negative | -4% Liberal |
| "On the eve of Biden's presidency, the American Prospect published this Day One Agenda list for Biden, outlining what he had the power to do with and without congressional approval." | Negative | -4% Liberal |
| "His approval rating is a mere 41.4" | Negative | -6% Liberal |
| "I'm very disappointed in the President for approving the Willow Project, January 2023 cover star Congressman Maxwell Frost (D-FL), 26, tweeted on March 14." | Negative | -6% Liberal |
| "Indefinite family detention along the US/Mexico border has received little corporate media attention, unlike the kids in cages media coverage we saw under Trump, whose policies Biden has continued." | Negative | -8% Liberal |
| "Compared to the most popular 2020 primary candidate, Bernie Sanders, Joe Biden ran on a weak, watered-down platform, but one that still contained many meaningful reforms that could have helped the working class, had the Democrats actually followed through with them." | Negative | -12% Liberal |
| "Compared to the most popular 2020 primary candidate, Bernie Sanders, Joe Biden ran on a weak, watered-down platform, but one that still contained many meaningful reforms that could have helped the working class, had the Democrats actually followed through with them." | Negative | -12% Liberal |
| "And even the supposedly socialist magazine, Jacobin, ironically published Cornel West Should Challenge Biden in the Democratic Primaries." | Negative | -14% Liberal |
| "When Reuters aounced West's candidacy, this major news outlet referenced the tired, old political trope that Ralph Nader spoiled the 2000 election for Al Gore- a scapegoating accusation that was discredited long ago, but continues to resurface every single time any candidate (third party or not) runs to the left of the corporate Democratic Party." | Negative | -14% Liberal |
| "Not only are half of all US voters independent, but according to 538, as of June 15, 2023, 54.6" | Negative | -14% Liberal |
| "Instead, the corporate media ran constant hit pieces against Bernie, limited his media exposure, and eventually, DNC operatives sabotaged his campaign in both 2016 and 2020." | Negative | -16% Liberal |
| "As a former advisor to the Bernie Sanders campaign, West deeply understands the futility of ruing as a Democrat, inside a corporate party that has a track record of derailing independent, progressive candidates in favor of corporate-backed, establishment ones." | Negative | -20% Liberal |
| "But Biden's low approval ratings are no surprise considering that Biden has failed to deliver on most of his major campaign promises." | Negative | -22% Liberal |
| "But Biden's low approval ratings are no surprise considering that Biden has failed to deliver on most of his major campaign promises." | Negative | -22% Liberal |
| "We also know that Jeb Bush (George Bush's brother) was in charge of the Florida recount, that there was mass harassment and disenfranchisement of Florida's black voters- some 14.4 percent who cast ballots and were rejected." | Negative | -30% Liberal |
| "Even Bernie Sanders was accused of being a spoiler during the 2016 and 2020 presidential primaries, which is technically impossible since he ran as a Democrat both times." | Negative | -34% Liberal |
| "And at the end of the day, Al Gore had won the popular vote, but he preemptively surrendered to Bush even though he could have demanded another recount." | Positive | 14% Conservative |
| "And at the end of the day, Al Gore had won the popular vote, but he preemptively surrendered to Bush even though he could have demanded another recount." | Positive | 14% Conservative |
| "This hugely impactful decision has been denounced by Democratic candidates Mariae Williamson and Robert F. Keedy, Jr." | Negative | -34% Liberal |
| "There have been many broken campaign promises and major disappointments coming from the Biden presidency: failing to forgive student loan debt; failing to pass a $15 minimum wage, failing to implement a public option for national healthcare; continuing to privatize Medicare, kicking over one million people of Medicaid; kicking some 750,000 off of food stamps after the debt-ceiling deal; fast-tracking some of the most carbon-intensive, oil and gas projects in recent history; and ending COVID provisions and privatizing the COVID response, just to name a few." | Negative | -18% Liberal |
| "Many of the nation's youth have expressed outrage at Biden's broken promises." | Negative | -38% Liberal |
| "Unlike Bush, Gore refused to fight with all the tools available to him." | Negative | -8% Liberal |
| "Unlike Bush, Gore refused to fight with all the tools available to him." | Negative | -8% Liberal |
| "If you study the electoral histories of Deis Kucinich, Ralph Nader, Jill Stein, Bernie Sanders and others, you will see that each time a progressive candidate becomes popular enough to garner mass attention and votes, the corporate media completely trashes them, changes debate rules to forbid their participation, and changes electoral financing laws to make sure that their campaigns are not economically viable." | Negative | -52% Liberal |
| "If you study the electoral histories of Deis Kucinich, Ralph Nader, Jill Stein, Bernie Sanders and others, you will see that each time a progressive candidate becomes popular enough to garner mass attention and votes, the corporate media completely trashes them, changes debate rules to forbid their participation, and changes electoral financing laws to make sure that their campaigns are not economically viable." | Negative | -52% Liberal |
| "These increases in police and military spending are especially offensive, given the mass voter support Biden received from the street protests and the Black Lives Matter movement." | Negative | -36% Liberal |
| "So when an actual leftist runs for office, whether it's Bernie Sanders, Jill Stein, Cornel West, or anyone else, Nader is once again blamed for George Bush's presidency, the Iraq War, 9/11, and everything bad that happened under Bush's tenure since none of those things would have presumably happened, if Gore had won the presidency in 2000." | Positive | 12% Conservative |
| "So when an actual leftist runs for office, whether it's Bernie Sanders, Jill Stein, Cornel West, or anyone else, Nader is once again blamed for George Bush's presidency, the Iraq War, 9/11, and everything bad that happened under Bush's tenure since none of those things would have presumably happened, if Gore had won the presidency in 2000." | Positive | 12% Conservative |
| "So when an actual leftist runs for office, whether it's Bernie Sanders, Jill Stein, Cornel West, or anyone else, Nader is once again blamed for George Bush's presidency, the Iraq War, 9/11, and everything bad that happened under Bush's tenure since none of those things would have presumably happened, if Gore had won the presidency in 2000." | Positive | 12% Conservative |
| "So when an actual leftist runs for office, whether it's Bernie Sanders, Jill Stein, Cornel West, or anyone else, Nader is once again blamed for George Bush's presidency, the Iraq War, 9/11, and everything bad that happened under Bush's tenure since none of those things would have presumably happened, if Gore had won the presidency in 2000." | Positive | 12% Conservative |
| "Under Biden, we've seen budget increases to military, border patrol and police funding, even in the face of horrible abuses of police power, like the murder of Tortuguita in Cop City, Atlanta." | Negative | -44% Liberal |
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Contributing sentiments towards policy:
62% : They would end fossil fuels immediately and transform our energy infrastructure into green and renewable energy.45% : And the recent "debt-ceiling crisis" of June 2023 resulted in even more cuts to social programs- the bipartisan McCarthy-Biden deal cut food stamps to some 750,000 adults and canceled the multi-year moratorium on student debt repayment from the CARES Act, forcing millions of students into debt repayment this summer.
45% : Meanwhile, this bipartisan deal actually increased funding to the military, border patrol, and fast-tracked even more climate-killing, fossil fuel projects like the highly protested Mountain Valley Pipeline.
45% : On this list of things he could do without Congressional approval were items such as: legalizing marijuana, canceling nearly all student debt, shutting down oil and gas leases on federal lands, strengthening unions by giving federal contracts to workplaces with collective-bargaining agreements, neutralizing corporate power using existing federal agencies, and remaking agricultural and food policy.
32% : There have been many broken campaign promises and major disappointments coming from the Biden presidency: failing to forgive student loan debt; failing to pass a $15 minimum wage, failing to implement a public option for national healthcare; continuing to privatize Medicare, kicking over one million people of Medicaid; kicking some 750,000 off of food stamps after the debt-ceiling deal; fast-tracking some of the most carbon-intensive, oil and gas projects in recent history; and ending COVID provisions and privatizing the COVID response, just to name a few.
9% : These increases in police and military spending are especially offensive, given the mass voter support Biden received from the street protests and the Black Lives Matter movement.
6% :Under Biden, we've seen budget increases to military, border patrol and police funding, even in the face of horrible abuses of police power, like the murder of Tortuguita in Cop City, Atlanta.
*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.