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.”
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.
At truthout.org
