I’ve got an engineering undergraduate degree and a law degree, and when I saw that ad, I remembered the 2020 Democratic debate where nearly everyone raised their hand to decriminalizing border crossings and free healthcare for illegal aliens.
You can split hairs and say that Biden didn’t raise his hand, and he’s the President, not Elizabeth Warren. But the ad doesn’t depend on folks being “uneducated.” It merely requires them to make some uncharitable inferences about how much influence the supporters of those other candidates have over Biden. In my opinion it’s a legal tackle.
As to people being “screwed over” they’re not. Noah Smith, a liberal, has done quite a good job showing how most Americans are better off than their European counterparts, except folks at the very bottom: https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/americans-are-generally-ri...
> but again this is just one more data point showing that the typical American enjoys a higher material standard of living than the typical European.
> A person at the cutoff of the bottom 10% in the U.S. takes home only $11,287 per year, while their counterpart in Denmark takes home $15,607.
Instead of assuming that people are just uneducated and irrational, maybe educate yourself and understand what dynamics are really at play. The median American is choosing greater consumption capacity at the expense of safety nets for those at the bottom. That’s arguably selfish, but not irrational.