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President Biden warns of 'oligarchy' as he bids farewell to five decades in politics
(www.usatoday.com)
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What did he do that makes him guilty?
He voted to increase loans and grants that made college ever more expensive for decades, and then in the aughts, sponsored the bill to make student debt non-dischargeable even in bankruptcy, effectively handcuffing generations past and future as well to the truckload of bullshit they are fed to get them into mountains of debt and then ensuring they are forever chained to it. https://www.congress.gov/116/meeting/house/111100/documents/HHRG-116-JU08-20201202-SD007.pdf
Decades in the US government anyone is going to have lots of awful things they did, and I'm not going to argue it's his worst but it's one of the most crippling to anyone trying to better themselves and has destroyed decades of millions of Americans lives.
Didn't he also help sponsor/write the Patriot Act? He literally helped out fascists with that one if so. Hard to keep track/memory of all the corruption over there.
Theres also his role with Anita Hill and not believing women, empowering a shithead, and we've suffered with that SC justice now for decades.
Well it's the internet so rather than introducing an idea attributing and condemning something they may or may have not done, we can just look it up rather than up voting with our feels.
Looks Iike he voted for the Patriot Act, didn't write it but claims the bill that became he patriot act was based on a bill Biden wrote in 1994 and he was proud of that, which is awful.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/andrewkaczynski/surveillance-joe
I'm no political analyst so I don't know what he did .... what I do know is what he didn't do, namely to actually do something significant against the growing oligarchy that he is talking about.
I also know nothing and want to talk about my feeling based opinions. Let's start a club.
Just make it a political party! A Know-Nothing Party!
He's historically been more "traditionally conservative" and neoliberal than anywhere near progressive. Conservatism/neoliberalism has destroyed the middle class and crushed the entire working class; sowing the seeds for fascism.
Long history of support for Israel's genocide too. Very pro military industrial complex.