• Tinidril@midwest.social
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    5 months ago

    I think you might just be a time traveler from the 90s. Everyone expected Biden to run further to the center but he did the opposite. Here is a partial list of his left leaning promises.

    • Free community college
    • Universal Pre-K
    • Student debt forgiveness
    • Double Pell Grants
    • Expand Social Security
    • Increase refugee admissions
    • Expand path to citizenship
    • Raise taxes on the wealthy
    • Raise corporate tax rate
    • Strengthen unions
    • Bring back manufacturing
    • Expand broadband access
    • Voting rights for felons
    • Eliminate mandatory minimums
    • Eliminate cash bail
    • End private detention centers
    • Decriminalize Marijuana
    • Lower cost of prescription drugs
    • $15 federal minimum wage
    • 12 weeks paid medical leave
    • 7 days paid vacation
    • Rejoin Paris Agreement
    • Green energy assistance for disadvantaged communities
    • Block new fracking
    • Offer a public option
    • Create public health jobs corps
    • Restore engagement with Cuba
    • Constitutional amendment to eliminate private funding of elections
    • Reverse transgender military ban

    The thing is, that the left-right spectrum isn’t the only axis that voters use to evaluate politicians anymore. A mich more important axis is now pro/anti establishment. Americans almost universally despise the DC establishment. Hillary represented that establishment, while Trump mocked it. Trump was a message in the form of a molotov cocktail.