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I Don't Like Biden Either,
(lemmy.world)
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So which social justice cause has Biden made meaningful progress on?
Police shootings? Prison labor? Qualified Immunity? Civil Asset Forfeiture? Rent affordability? Welfare cliff? Welfare work load for not losing benefits? Unions? (Lmao, we all remember the railroad) Cash bail? Debtor's prison? (An unconstitutional practice the DOJ could end today) Reproductive healthcare? Minimum sentences? Child marriage?
Look, if the word on the street was that Biden had meaningfully improved life for minorities and lower socioeconomic groups then I'd respect that. But it isn't. Shit is just festering while the Democrats take victory laps.
Actually yes on Reproductive Healthcare, he signed a Memorandum in 2023 and Executive Order in 2022.
He also signed into law an update to the Respect for Marriage Act that extends protections to homosexuals and the trans community.
He also signed the Eviction Memorandum that prevented people from being evicted during the Pandemic.
Ironically the legislature that Biden helped write and pass in 1994, which overall was an absolutely terrible bill that most Democrats regret, is actually the law that gives the DOJ the power to audit and investigate Police Departments, but sadly the Patterns and Practice Reform Work reports seems to have ended under the Trump Admin and has yet to be renewed in any meaningful way.
Admittedly, Biden only mentioned an end to Cash Bail in passing as a single sentence in a 42 page document back in 2021, so not much progress there, but he did Pardon all simple possession convictions very early in his presidency.
The eviction moratorium was a disaster. Many people just got evicted later instead of during COVID lockdowns. It had the effect of raising their rent to an untenable level after the moratorium was over.
The executive order amounts to a request to please keep treating women at hospitals. It's been largely ignored because doctors, shockingly, don't want to go to prison for murder.
I'll give him some credit for codifying Obergefell. But that was basically already done, it just needed to get pushed across the finish line.
I'll even admit it's not like any other president would do better. But the victory laps are a slap in the face.