Biden voted for the banking "reforms" that loosened banking regulation and opened the way to the 2008 crash.
Biden actively supported credit card companies and other lenders in their efforts to gouge the public with usurious interest rates and other debt enforcement mechanisms.
Biden has supported the War on Drugs through all its failed permutations. He opposes any legalization of marijuana.
Biden opposed busing to integrate schools, without offering any alternative to promote integration. He joined with racist senators Jesse Helms and Strom Thurmond to craft regressive "bipartisan" legislation. He falsely claimed to have once been a civil rights activist.
Biden has been a relentless demagogue on crime issues. He has been comfortable with their underlying racist bias, contributing to the massive, unjust incarceration that enriches private corporations. Biden pushed for harsh minimum sentencing, not justice. He supported civil asset forfeiture. He voted for racist sentencing for possession of crack cocaine (harsh for blacks) and powder cocaine (light for whites).
Biden has backed numerous new death penalty laws.
Biden has claimed, falsely, that he has the most progressive record of any candidate.
Biden is not a firm supporter of a woman's right to choose.
Biden has yet to offer anything positive and humane with regard to immigration. Biden has backed draconian deportation law and police state tactics of border enforcement.
Biden has backed US policies that have made Central America unlivable, including support for the military coup in Honduras.
Biden voted for NAFTA.
Biden was the chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee during Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas's hearings. Biden treated Anita Hill abysmally. Worse, Biden refused to call corroborating witness who would have supported Hill's account of Thomas's awfulness. Biden is singularly responsible for one of the least qualified justices in our history. And recently, creepy Biden called Hill to say he regretted what she went through. But he didn't apologize and has yet to accept personal responsibility for his own actions. He has yet to attempt anything to atone for them.
Biden is a corporate money candidate. His first campaign fundraiser was a lobbyist-rich event at the home of a Comcast executive, signaling Biden's opposition to net neutrality.
If Biden has any new never mind progressive views on health care, criminal justice, education, climate change, war, or any other important issue, he has yet to articulate any of them.
Does Biden stand for anything concrete that you care about?
Biden is like Trump-Lite. Biden may be no more than Trump polite. Biden is a substantively empty vessel with a shiny self-reflecting surface.
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