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  • It’s not that simple. Changing positions will probably polarize people to vote against him as much as it will win over votes to him.

    Especially because those who are likely to withhold votes over this will probably demand the most drastic of actions before Biden passes their purity test.

    Geopolitically it’s a bad move on top of that as it ends the relationship with practicallythe only middle Eastern power we have as an ally.

    The reproductions of that alone is certain to energize opposition to Biden in the far right.

    While he may lose voters over his current inaction, taking action could easily lead to a net loss on election day.

    Unfortunately what is best for a country geopolitically and what is morally right often don’t agree with each other.



  • The rural population isn’t the issue, it’s suburbia which is where the majority of the US population lives.

    It’s not dense enough for public transportation to be viable and it’s zoned in a way that makes pedestrian traffic a non starter.

    Suburbia causes a lot of problems. I understand why it exists - owning a house with a yard is nice. I personally wouldn’t want to give that up to live in an urban environment if I didn’t have to













  • It’s such an odd argument. It’s true that the democrat party is the party pre 20th century that supported slavery rights.

    The deep south was a Democratic stronghold until around the 1950s when the party started supporting civil rights and social reform.

    At this point the southern wing of the party broke off from the main party.

    The Republican party was founded specifically by anti slavery activists in the 1850s and was rather neutral on civil rights issues post civil war until they saw the fracture in the Democrat party in the 1950s and used the opportunity to change their platform to oppose social reform in order to pick up those disenfranchised southern voters.

    So saying the democrat party was the party of slavery during the civil war is one of those things that’s technically true but has no bearing on the present.