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Biden's Policies Propose Minor Changes in a Time of Crisis

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Given the sudden rise in Biden’s prospects, it’s important to review his policy platform, which sometimes tends to attract less discussion,perhaps because his policy proposals overall seem to match a claim Biden himself made at a fundraiser in NYC last June, when he reassured wealthy donors that unlike more progressive candidates, he wouldn’t call for dramatic transfers of wealth from the 1% to the rest of society, and under his leadership “nothing would fundamentally change.”

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Biden has not indicated that he has the decisiveness necessary to beat back current attacks on abortion rights and access to abortion care.

Biden doesn’t support decriminalizing border-crossing and other immigration violations .

Biden’s climate plan is a moderate vision that is mostly a continuation of Obama policies— which climate activists feel are not urgent enough to address the climate crisis.

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Joan Brunwasser is a co-founder of Citizens for Election Reform (CER) which since 2005 existed for the sole purpose of raising the public awareness of the critical need for election reform. Our goal: to restore fair, accurate, transparent, secure elections where votes are cast in private and counted in public. Because the problems with electronic (computerized) voting systems include a lack of (more...)
 

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