Despite his friendly and likable demeanor, Biden has been a real jerk over the years and deserves at best to ride off into the sunset on Obama’s coattails, looking like a man of the people. It’s better to be remembered for gaffes and grab ass than his actual deeds.
His work includes: Promoting War on Drugs garbage like civil forfeiture, harsher sentencing and mandatory minimums for simple possession; voting to authorize the Iraq war; helping to eviscerate protections for student loan borrowers while protecting banks at every turn, including backing the repeal of Glass-Steagall; bipartisan welfare “reform” in the Clinton era; supporting the telecommunications act of 1996, allowing massive consolidation of media ownership (reducing the number of voices allowed to speak). His “bipartisan” legacy looks pretty Republican to me, favoring the rich and powerful at the expense of the rest of us.
If this is the D nominee, just shoot me. We can do so much better.
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