When Biden was on the ballot, voters didn’t see him as someone who could take radical steps to address the number of underlying issues plaguing the country.
A vote for Biden was a vote for the status quo. The status quo is a slow decline into fascism.
But he was literally one of the best presidents in the past hundred years. He has done a ton of shit with no support from Congress. Dude is out of the race and is still erasing student debt.
Yeah, in my mind Joe Biden was definitely the more liberal/progressive of the two (apart from his dumb unwavering support of Israel). Kamala Harris is probably more in line with Hillary Clinton and probably closer to centrist than progressive. There’s just this perception that “old white guy” = more conservative, it’s kind of racist tbh, but I guess it’s against white people, so that’s cool. As long as it keeps Trump and the white racists/fascists from the presidency, that’s fine.
But I haven’t seen any substantive change in policy direction to assume that isn’t still the case with Harris. We’ve got a younger, prettier new face, but otherwise I’m assuming it’s going to be all the same people in the administration, maybe Harris will go with B instead of A for some Cabinet positions, but otherwise, it’s going to be all the same faces and it’s going to be the same status quo that it was before. People expecting Harris to be more progressive/radical than Joe Biden and that she’s going to shake up the status quo are going to be in for a rude awakening.
When Biden was on the ballot, voters didn’t see him as someone who could take radical steps to address the number of underlying issues plaguing the country.
A vote for Biden was a vote for the status quo. The status quo is a slow decline into fascism.
But he was literally one of the best presidents in the past hundred years. He has done a ton of shit with no support from Congress. Dude is out of the race and is still erasing student debt.
Yeah, in my mind Joe Biden was definitely the more liberal/progressive of the two (apart from his dumb unwavering support of Israel). Kamala Harris is probably more in line with Hillary Clinton and probably closer to centrist than progressive. There’s just this perception that “old white guy” = more conservative, it’s kind of racist tbh, but I guess it’s against white people, so that’s cool. As long as it keeps Trump and the white racists/fascists from the presidency, that’s fine.
But I haven’t seen any substantive change in policy direction to assume that isn’t still the case with Harris. We’ve got a younger, prettier new face, but otherwise I’m assuming it’s going to be all the same people in the administration, maybe Harris will go with B instead of A for some Cabinet positions, but otherwise, it’s going to be all the same faces and it’s going to be the same status quo that it was before. People expecting Harris to be more progressive/radical than Joe Biden and that she’s going to shake up the status quo are going to be in for a rude awakening.
But we won’t know for sure until after she is elected and that gives voters hope.