These threads are always fun to come back to a few years later to see how what the politicians said they would do matches up to what they actually tried to do and then what they really accomplished. Obama's promises about healthcare are a good example, one with no individual mandate and average costs coming down twenty-five hundred dollars per family compared to what actually happened. So what is Biden promising to do, will he do it, and will it work as intended?
Biden is promising to be autocratic, to restore the Obama precedent of using executive orders to illegally create laws. It will work because as Obama showed it can't be stopped unless the other party controls BOTH the House and 2/3rds of the Senate. As there are more than 34 Democrat Senators and the Democrat's control the House, Biden will use executive orders to violate the Constitution. He's already announced he's going to reenter the Paris Treaty, still without Senate approval, that he's going to re-institute the illegal DACA program, and several other "Day 1," initiatives - none of which involve any legislative agenda. So I guess the DNC does get what it wants, more fascism from its own team. That's before you consider he thinks he can order everyone in the country to wear a mask - wait till you see how that's going to be enforced.
He's going to bury any investigation into his own criminal conduct, his family's criminal conduct and the greatest political crime of the century that Obama Admin carried out in respect of the incoming Trump admin. Again, DNC gets what it wants, a permanent double standard where the same conduct is criminal for Republicans and "totally okay" for Democrats. He'll not only get away with it, he'll be praised for it. Seems like people are always cheering somehow when they give away their own rights.
Will he succeed in getting the filthy rich to pay more in taxes and will his tax policies end up resulting in more money to the Treasury?
Lol, his policies were never about this. Why do you think the filthy rich backed Biden overwhelmingly with their big money (do you remember, oh say every year before this one, when the Dems on the board through absolutely tantrums about dark money, lol, bet you didn't know their only real complaint was that they didn't think it was in their favor). Under Trump there were real income gains among the poorest of us, under Biden and Obama, it was all about the rich benefitting more and that's the status quo they were looking to restore. You can expect headline grabbing top line tax numbers to go up, and you can expect there won't be any real headlines on all the new deductions and special incentives that go right in behind them to ensure the really rich and connected end up better than now (meanwhile all those in the middle class will end up worse, cause the DNC really does seek to make people dependent on government, which is where they get their votes).
Will he get the assault weapons ban he wants?
Nope. But you can expect completely partisan legal cases that seek and even may bankrupt those defending the second amendment and maybe even gun manufacturers themselves. Meanwhile, like always, everywhere the DNC's control increases so does the crime.
Is our healthcare system going to be substantially improved and can he really "shutdown the virus" like he said?
No, healthcare will get worse, same as it did under Obama. Our healthcare's overwhelming problem is too much government involvement. Under Biden that's only going to increase. You'll pay more for even less.
As far as the virus, my guess is yes. Not because Biden is going to do anything, but because he's going to be the beneficiary of the exceptional work that the Trump administration engaged in. Finding, completely "fascinating" that Biden's team made real efforts to meet with all the drug companies working on vaccines, and that after the media repeatedly undercut Trump's message about how vaccines were coming, we have an announcement less than a week after the election about 90% effective vaccine results. If I were a betting man, I'd take that as a lock the results were deliberately delayed because they completely undercut the message Biden wanted to send.
Will there be less pollution and will climate change slow down because of his administration?
Not because of any anti-pollution efforts (those have been stable under all Presidents), but only because he'll slow down the economy and therefore we'll have less pollution. Kind of silver lining on what's going to be an economic disaster.
I mean, the way Biden is going to handle this globally is going to be a disaster. The Paris Accord was not a pollution reduction treaty it was always a scam. US carbon production hit a cap in 2006, and has been going down ever since while our production and efficiency has been increasing. Trump's economy was better than Obama's and involved increases in manufacturing, and for carbon production was slightly up over the last year of Obama's but still below the average (granted, there was a drop from beginning to end of Obama). In fact, under Trump US pollution from energy production continued to decline, but pollution from transportation increased (if you want to stop US pollution convince people to stop driving). None of it shocking or unreasonable.
Long and short is from 2006 to present, US has dropped from abt. 6 billion tons of carbon to around 5.5 billion tons. In the same time period, China went from about 6 billion tons to over 10 billion tons. India went from 1.3 billion to about 3 billion. No matter what Biden claims, he's already announcing he's going to lift the tariffs on China and the Chinese think he's a done deal to open up to them completely. You can expect that Chinese pollution rate to climb even faster, and as there's NO LEVEL OF CUTS that the US can make that will cause pollution to descrease without controlling China, all Biden is telling you is that he's going to sell out BOTH the economy and the environment and get congratulated for doing it.
I wonder about all of that and a lot more. Just like with Obama, the good thing is that we get to see if these people can deliver on their promises. When they fail like Obama did miserably, that sets up the other side for a good chance at taking over for a while the way Trump did and may yet do again.
Except they made that mistake before, and they don't plan on making it again. While that could have been a good thing, they could have reconsidered what they were doing and made policy corrections to get to a better place, that's not what they decided to do. They decided that the way to make sure we don't get another Trump is to make sure the system is rigged to give themselves permanent power. That's what Biden and the DNC plan to do with their four years (or heck, why not admit it, it's not going to be four years, it's intended to never transfer power again).
