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Joe Biden is running to be Liar in Chief
In a tweet on the 5th of July, Joe Biden declared, “we’re going to beat Donald Trump. And when we do, we won’t just rebuild this nation — we’ll transform it.” This sounds good as far as it goes, but since he is realizing that many progressives do not support him, I cannot help being suspicious that this is mere pandering, considering the fact that Biden’s voting record makes him look a lot more like a Republican than what I used to expect from the Democratic Party. I cannot help wondering, however, if he recalls his statement to wealthy donors a year ago that “we may not want to demonize anyone who has made money,” a speculation that ignores the role of labor in giving those rich people their economic privilege. He went on to say, “the truth of the matter is, you all, you all know, you all know in your gut what has to be done. We can disagree in the margins but the truth of the matter is it’s all within our wheelhouse and nobody has to be punished. No one’s standard of living will change, nothing would fundamentally change.”
Biden is noted for his clumsy use of language, and call me naïve for wishing that politicians would be generally honest — or at least intelligently disingenuous — but I see a contradiction in the two statements that I have quoted here. His supporters will likely say that this is just Biden being Biden while talking to donors and what he really meant is…
