Biden’s quiet failure
Joe Biden, in five short weeks, has already gone back on (at least) 11 promises. His policy is exactly the same as Donald Trump’s. He just doesn’t say the quiet part out loud. I hear a lot of people making excuses for him, and implying that he needs more time, but needing more time doesn’t explain moving in the wrong direction on things. It doesn’t explain him refusing to do things he promised to do. It doesn’t explain him failing to support $15/hr minimum wage because he cares about Congressional Republicans’ feelings.
The Democrat Party, under Biden, is so far to the right that Trump actually falls to the left of Joe on some things. The United States has some very serious challenges, and the answers to almost all of them lie on the left — the actual left, not the Kamala Harris left. If the party can’t get people some money to survive and pay their rent with, and if they can’t get some real progressive policies put in place, the voters will get fed up, as they did in 2010, and the Democrats hold on Congress will end.
If that happens, not much will get done from 20222024, and Joe Biden (or Kamala Harris) will be challenged by a Donald Trump that they failed to remove from office twice, due to Pelosi not including corruption charges in the impeachments. Trump 2024 is a real possibility, and Nancy Pelosi and Joe Biden will have created that scenario. Manchin and Sinema and Feinstein will have helped, but Pelosi and Biden have been key in blocking any movement to the left. Among the problems:
• $2000 stimulus checks became $1400.
• He bombed Syria without Congressional approval, the same way Trump did.
• He is not holding Mohammed bin Salman responsible for the murder of Jamal Kashoggi.
• He has backed off supporting $15/hr minimum wage.
• He said he would end Trump’s border policies, but he is reopening closed camps.
• He said he would cancel $50,000 in student debt but failed to do so.
• He promised to end standardized testing, but his Education Department is requiring them (announced last month).
On the other hand, he has had time to have a vacation, to bomb Syria and expand
U.S. presence in Iraq, dubbed Russia “an existential threat” (which is dangerous language) and supported a brutal dictator in Haiti. — Jason Kishineff/ American Canyon