I have never been a huge fan of Joe Biden. One of the ironies of his attempt to ease student debt burden is that he was a major sponsor of the legislation in the mid-aughts that made it essentially impossible for sturdent debt holders to declare bankruptcy. He was a Senator from Delaware, where a legislator's main duty is to look out for the interests of banks and credit card companies. And he delivered.
He also was a supporter of W's Iraq War, and was on the weapons-of-mass-destruction bandwagon. His record on tough-on-crime stuff was pretty bad.
I voted for Biden in 2020. He's done some pretty good things as president on the domestic front. Other than his withdrawal from Afghanistan, however, his foreign policy has been pretty bad, pretty much run-of-the mill Cold War stuff.
But the tragedy of his presidency is that his legacy will be that he was in full support of a genocide in Gaza, which is now becoming a regional war. All through this, Biden and his foreign policy team have been all in, with the flow of money and weaponry from American war profiteers increasing.
LBJ did some equally cool things domestically. But his legacy is forever tarnished by the Vietnam War. Biden will deserve the same kind of scorn. If Harris is elected, maybe this will be reversed. I am hopeful, but not optimistic.
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