Trump may still pull an upset. I mean Biden is essentially Hillary 2.0 considering some things about him the left shouldn't like.
Supported laws that mostly impacted monitory groups: Check
Bad Gun rights history: Check
Tried to overturn Row Vs Wade: Check
I think that's a little bit dishonest, not to mention that is was in 1981 that Biden considered allowing the individuals states to decide whether or not to support Roe v. Wade.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/29/us/politics/biden-abortion-rights.html
t was a new era in Washington in 1981, and abortion rights activists were terrified.
With an anti-abortion president, Ronald Reagan, in power and Republicans controlling the Senate for the first time in decades, social conservatives pushed for a constitutional amendment to allow individual states to overturn Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court ruling that had made abortion legal nationwide several years earlier.
The amendment — which the National Abortion Rights Action League called “the most devastating attack yet on abortion rights” — cleared a key hurdle in the Senate Judiciary Committee in March 1982. Support came not only from Republicans but from a 39-year-old, second-term Democrat: Joseph R. Biden Jr.
“I’m probably a victim, or a product, however you want to phrase it, of my background,” Mr. Biden, a Roman Catholic, said at the time. The decision, he said, was “the single most difficult vote I’ve cast as a U.S. senator.”
The bill never made it to the full Senate, and when it came back up the following year, Mr. Biden voted against it. His back-and-forth over abortion would become a hallmark of his political career.
He apparently doesn't feel conflicted about Roe V Wade now, so the fact that he was conflicted about it in 1981 isn't applicable to now.
As far as guns go, perhaps you don't understand that in most of the country there are lots of gun toting liberals. I'm married to one. ( actually he gave up his carry permit several years ago, but he used to carry concealed ) In fact, the last time I went to a gun show, mostly to satisfy my own curiosity, there were a very high number of Black folks there buying and selling guns. Yes. Do you have evidence that Biden doesn't support laws that would promote gun safety, like requiring registration, training and things like that? I really am not aware of Biden's current feelings on guns, but it's wrong to assume that liberals aren't gun owners. They just tend to take gun safety more seriously and they usually support good regulation regarding gun ownership etc.
If you are referring to the laws regarding increasing prison time, the Congressional Black Caucus also supported those laws. I would call those laws wrong, but I seriously doubt that anyone realized that they would lead to a huge increase in the incarceration of Black men. Hindsight is always 20/20.. Those who supported the laws at that time have come to accept that they made a mistake.
But, the important thing is that most open minded, intelligent people do tend to change and learn from their mistakes. I feel that Biden is an example of this, while Trump has never learned or even admitted his mistakes. Biden didn't always support gay marriage but he came out in support of it before many other Democrats did. As I said, decent people will grow and learn as time goes on.
And, in this particular election, it's not so much about being enthusiastic about Biden, as it is ridding the country of the most incompetent, corrupt, autocratic president in our life times, if not in the history of the country. If people expect purity, then they are idiots. There will never be a perfect candidate. There will always be times that a decent person has to vote for someone who they don't fully support. I've been voting since I turned 21. The voting age was 21 when I was 18, and there have been only a couple of times that I was enthusiastic about the person who got my vote.
I've known people who voted third party last time because, "we don't like Hillary". I really wanted to smack some sense into them, and I hope they have learned their lesson.
If people who feel Biden isn't far left enough for them fail to vote or vote third party out of spite, then they are harming themselves and others. Better to get part of what you want, then have everything important to you taken away.
: Certainly. It is specifically the Republican Party which is disgustingly corrupt.
