20th January 2020, 10:40 AM
Biden's got troubles, that much is true, and to add another lie to the pile apparently he's now reframing his position on sociel security.
Even if we gave Biden that the video he's talking about is doctored (It doesn't appear to be), there's multiple times through his career when he's gone after social security both proudly and boldly, in some misguided attempt to "balance the budget". (Never mind that that's a rather dumb goal in the first place, as numerous people far more knowledgable about the subject than I have pointed out, and secondly that even if that was such an important thing to do, it's the dems that have traditionally spent far less than the repubs.)
I'm sorry for going off like that- but this is the critical issue of our time. It's not a very enticing proposition to say "Biden's not going to get much done" and then suggest I ought to vote for him. I'd rather try and fail than give up right out of the gate, and frankly "fighting congress" the way Bernie and Warren seem to be indicating they're willing to do has never really been done before. It's certainly worth a try, because the slow and steady route is death now. It's too late to go slow and subtle. We ran out of chances to do that. We go fast and we go tough- or we all die. You can doubt it'll be successful, but don't for a second trick yourself into thinking there are any other options.
Meanwhile, for every answer that frankly isn't entirely satisfactory from Bernie, there's a nonsensical sundowning one for Biden.
Then there's the times people claim Sanders or Warren are changing the subject when they aren't. Income inequality and healthcare are directly related to each other, and climate change is too. All the major issues facing American and the world today are interconnected now. Maybe at one time they weren't, but they're all heavily interconnected now, that's for sure.
More to the point, there's a reason that, while I favor one candidate over the other, I would be satisfied with BOTH Warren and Sanders at the moment. They're not saviors. They're just people who are trying to actually DO something, and that's a base the rest of us can build off of. That's a foundation. Both of them, but Sanders especially, need a running mate as "extreme" as they are so that if the worst should happen, we can rally behind and trust that VP to continue the Great Work ahead.
Even if we gave Biden that the video he's talking about is doctored (It doesn't appear to be), there's multiple times through his career when he's gone after social security both proudly and boldly, in some misguided attempt to "balance the budget". (Never mind that that's a rather dumb goal in the first place, as numerous people far more knowledgable about the subject than I have pointed out, and secondly that even if that was such an important thing to do, it's the dems that have traditionally spent far less than the repubs.)
I'm sorry for going off like that- but this is the critical issue of our time. It's not a very enticing proposition to say "Biden's not going to get much done" and then suggest I ought to vote for him. I'd rather try and fail than give up right out of the gate, and frankly "fighting congress" the way Bernie and Warren seem to be indicating they're willing to do has never really been done before. It's certainly worth a try, because the slow and steady route is death now. It's too late to go slow and subtle. We ran out of chances to do that. We go fast and we go tough- or we all die. You can doubt it'll be successful, but don't for a second trick yourself into thinking there are any other options.
Meanwhile, for every answer that frankly isn't entirely satisfactory from Bernie, there's a nonsensical sundowning one for Biden.
Then there's the times people claim Sanders or Warren are changing the subject when they aren't. Income inequality and healthcare are directly related to each other, and climate change is too. All the major issues facing American and the world today are interconnected now. Maybe at one time they weren't, but they're all heavily interconnected now, that's for sure.
More to the point, there's a reason that, while I favor one candidate over the other, I would be satisfied with BOTH Warren and Sanders at the moment. They're not saviors. They're just people who are trying to actually DO something, and that's a base the rest of us can build off of. That's a foundation. Both of them, but Sanders especially, need a running mate as "extreme" as they are so that if the worst should happen, we can rally behind and trust that VP to continue the Great Work ahead.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)