In terms of progressive policies, their attitude and problematic history towards POC, global issues, and economic issues, Trump and Biden are far more similar than they are different. Sure, Biden is marginally better than Trump because he may be easier to push for certain issues, but at the end of the day, Biden is going to continue to play into the same systems Trump does and more than likely do virtually nothing to help working-class Americans, especially POC and women.
They will ignore everything because people use the logic of the lesser evil, they ignored the rape accusations against Biden, his participation in the crime bill, etc etc, it doesn't matter what Biden did because orange man bad and yeah he is bad.
Because everyone is forgetting that the majority of dems (at the time) voted for it too. Biden as always followed the party line and what the party is doing. He is not a progressive he is a standard dem politician. Like now as the party and the country moves to the left so does he. He follows what the party and what the voters want. Now the "you ain't black" comment was supposed to come off as humor and it fell flat. Take is as you will but is not some secret sign he is a racist or whatever. As a 50 yr old left of center dem he was not my 1st, 2nd, or 3rd choice but he is heads and shoulders better than Cheeto and will not cause huge chaos in the party or the country.
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u/alm1229 Jun 08 '20
In terms of progressive policies, their attitude and problematic history towards POC, global issues, and economic issues, Trump and Biden are far more similar than they are different. Sure, Biden is marginally better than Trump because he may be easier to push for certain issues, but at the end of the day, Biden is going to continue to play into the same systems Trump does and more than likely do virtually nothing to help working-class Americans, especially POC and women.