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Harris plans to finish Biden's progressive agenda
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What progressive policy? There have been some good things, but that's nowhere near what true progressives want. Let's start with ending the genocide and healthcare for everyone.
Biden's administration has been the most progressive presidential administration in US history. He limited drug costs using the federal government's buying power.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/03/02/fact-sheet-president-bidens-cap-on-the-cost-of-insulin-could-benefit-millions-of-americans-in-all-50-states/
If you don't know that, you don't have expensive health issues. Also, the idea that there's a switch on the Resolute Desk that says "Middle East Genocide", currently set to "on", displays fundamental misunderstanding of the roots of problems in the area.
The Old Testament commands the children of Abraham to conquer other Canaanites in the area and "make no treaties with them". Clearly there's been war there for at least 2500 years. No president is going to "end the genocide", not even if they were the reincarnation of Abraham himself.
There has not been a war there for 2500 years. Zionist terrorists ran the British out right after World War 2 and then they began clearing out Arabs, which led to the first war with their neighbors.
Did FDR never happen in your timeline?
Or I may have incredible health insurance. Or I may have lots of money. You don't know shit about my life and it's small-minded to make assumptions.
Accepting genocide and writing it off as something that can't be helped is pretty shitty.
Of course ending war in the middle east would be difficult, but stopping giving them the tools to slaughter innocents would be a huge step forward. Every US bomb dropped on civilians can be traced directly back to him and his policies.
We aren't giving them weapons, like in Ukraine, they are paying for them. Obviously the IDF is using them irresponsibly, but it is a military deterrent to Iran and Russia in the region. Saudi Arabia and Israel can't directly cooperate (for domestic reasons), so they do so through the US.
If Iran stopped their nuclear program (as they did under Obama), stopped arming dissidents, and stopped supporting authoritarian Syria, it would be a lot more peaceful in the region. They can't because the leaders of Iran are authoritarian themselves and would be ousted if there were free elections.
They need Russian support and their proxies (Hezbollah, Iraqi groups, Hamas) to keep their domestic audience happy. Let me summarize: it is complicated.
Oh that's so much better. We're making money on it. That's it everyone go home, it's all okay, someone is making a profit so it can't be bad...
She can't actually do anything yet. She could put Israel on notice but that's about it and they may not see that as a plus for the campaign.