Really disappointed in Biden today. Believe given climate crisis we should be doing everything we can, including buying inexpensive EVs from China, to hasten the transition from carbon based fuels.
That said, certainly international relations are complex and we don't have all the information or know all the constraints he is wrestling with.
In any case, would never threaten to withhold electoral support. These issues pale measured against a Trump win and the incumbent end of democracy.
@mastodonmigration thank you for not being a black and white thinker. I get disappointed in Biden from time to time, but in the end, he's a good guy and dump is not.
@mastodonmigration he is an isolationist like Trump. He is also a war monger and very selective in civil rights. The two candidates may have different personalities etc, but policy wise there are a lot of similarities between Dems and GOP
There is a huge world of difference between Trump and Biden. Appreciate that Biden may not be the progressive we want him to be, but he is not a fascist hell bent on destroying democracy. There is no comparison.
@mastodonmigration@Lassielmr the fact that the GOP and orange man boy, portray Biden as a “radical left wing Marxist” says more about how they see themselves than him. As a European it seems a totally laughable characterisation.
Indeed. Biden is no progressive, but neither is he a fascist. His policies are frustrating to many on the left, but he is not an existential threat to worldwide liberal democratic order. Equating these two is very dangerous as it minimizes the threat we all are facing from resurgent right wing autocracy across the globe.
@mastodonmigration@Lassielmr preaching to the converted there mate. If I were a U.S. voter it’d be a no brainer for me.
To me, the longer term issue in the US is the same as in the U.K.: Long in the tooth democracies, with voting and election setups that no longer work well in the current times, and legal setups that no longer work well enough, nor speedily enough, when confronted with bad faith actors of the worst sort, as is clearly evident now.
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