A Return To Normal Isn't Good Enough For Millions Of Americans

Joe Biden ran for President on a platform that promised to return America to "normal." But the problem is that "normal" hasn't worked for millions of Americans in decades. Normal is leaving people to die in poverty with no lifeline; Normal is out of control medical expenses that leave people choosing between their medication and food; Normal is endless war. None of this is acceptable today, and Biden needs to create a new "normal" that actually works for Americans. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins discusses this.

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One of the themes of the 2020 election on the democratic side was let's return to normal. And while that wasn't an official campaign position or platform of the democratic party, it wasn't even something that was necessarily mentioned in most of the democratic ads. It was something that was talked about extensively among the pundit class and on cable news. Well, here's the thing now, the Biden's one now that we don't have to worry about, Oh, we can't say anything bad because it may hurt his chances. Not that that stopped any of us anyway, but now that we can be a little more aggressive, I guess you would call it in our criticisms here. Let me go ahead and take some time here to explain that returning to normal, what the pundit class with the cable news class, when MSNBC says, Oh, let's return to normal normal didn't work normal. Hasn't worked for decades for millions upon millions of people in this country. And let me explain what I mean by that. Cause there's actually quite a few good. Op-eds about that just this past week, a really great one in the Boston globe, but let me explain something that I had explained during the campaign.

My life, my individual personal life did not change from the way it was during the Obama years and the way it was during the time Trump years, there was no difference in my life. I still had medical debts, still struggled to pay bills. Nothing got better. Nothing necessarily got worse for me, either. And millions of Americans were in the same boat, right? We're still struggling. It's still hard to pay student loan debts. It's still difficult to be able to move upward in society. It's very expensive being poor. And I know that because I finally, within the last year started making more money. So what was the first thing I did? I went back to the dentist for the first time in 10 years. And I have spent over $5,000 this year on dental work. Why? Because I didn't have the money for 10 years to be able to go for routine dental maintenance. And I'm still paying for it. Got another one sitting right here, just came in $612 bill all because I couldn't afford for so long to take care of these little things. Like I said, being poor is very expensive,

But It's the same under Trump, as it was under Obama, as it was under Bush things normal, this normal you claim doesn't exist because it doesn't work. What is normal? Are you talking about the normal where we don't have a president that goes on and has meltdowns and insults American citizens? Is that the only thing you qualify as normal? The answer to that is yes, by the way, because look at all these people crying for a claim, a return to normal. There are people who are just fine. People who don't struggle from month to month, people who don't live paycheck to paycheck say, I want to return to normal. I don't want to have to think about politics. I don't want to have to think about policy near Trump's annoying me. Cool. I would Have loved to have just been only annoyed for the last four years for the last 12 years for the last 20 years.

But I wasn't like Of Americans. I was sitting here wondering, how am I going to pay for this, this, this medical incident I have, how I'm gonna, how am I gonna pay, you know, $1,500 out of pocket for a root canal?

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