• Jaysyn@kbin.social
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    11 months ago

    If the most appealing thing about Biden is that he isn’t Trump

    But it’s not. The appealing thing about Biden is he’s quite literally got more Progressive action done in his first term than the last two Democratic presidents combined.

    The reality about Biden is he’s the most progressive president we’ve had since FDR.

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      11 months ago

      That was really a reference to the fact that every time this comes up, the automatic, repeated response is, “You have to vote for Biden if you don’t want Trump!” - it’s almost the entire argument in favor of voting for him.

      I’m not going to deny that he’s done a lot of good things, and tried to do more only to get shut down by the other branches of government, but his Israel policy is really casting a shadow over everything else, for me personally, at least.

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      11 months ago

      The reality about Biden is he’s the most progressive president we’ve had since FDR.

      What has Biden done on the level of LBJ’s Medicare? What’s his equivalent of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, or the 1964 Civil Rights Act?

      What has Biden done on the level of Obama’s ACA?

      Putting a finer point on this: Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act does less for the environment than Nixon’s EPA did. Nixon.

      I get that you want support from progressives for pretending to want progressive shit, but no. Biden is not the most progressive anything. It’s insulting to expect progressives to buy that.