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Not Your Father’s Joe
A sincere apology to President Biden.
In April of 2020, I joined other Democrats in being distressed that the Party was again providing me with a choice of the less bad of two bad options. Trump was a malevolent, right-wing imbecile and so the bar was pretty low. As usual, the Democratic Party provided a not so very repugnant and not so very controversial and also apparently deserving, since he had waited so long, almost OK candidate in Joe Biden. Given his history, I was satisfied that this would be another basic capitalist, anti-union, neoliberal timidly serving the same tepid, unimaginative governance gruel I’ve been choking down for decades.
Historically, Biden had been a major advocate for one of our most corrupt Supreme Court justices, Clarence Thomas. Biden drove crime reduction programs that simply imprisoned more black people for longer. He agreed with the common myth that the government deficit was actually similar to family debt and so must be reduced at the expense of the poor and middle class. He believed that high employment led unavoidably to inflation, and so the average guy has to pay the price of prosperity for business and the wealthy.
Despite all of that evidence, President Biden has surprised me. I can imagine a number of qualified candidates that I would prefer over Joe Biden but I must apologize for my…
