President Joe Biden will travel to Michigan on Tuesday and walk the picket line with members of the United Auto Workers union, he announced Friday, a trip that comes after the president faced political pressure to ramp up his public support for the union members.
Biden has shown that he is willing to change his opinions and actions when he makes a mistake. He voted for Defense of Marriage Act back in the 90’s, but IIRC after he became friends with an aid who happened to be trans (yeah, trans ≠ gay, but I guess they’re close enough in some people’s eyes) his opinions on LGBT people changed and he now strongly supports gay marriage. Point being, he could have changed his mind about striking workers too.
That’s what a lot of people don’t like to acknowledge, that individuals can learn and change. That they aren’t always who they were.
Individuals learn and change, but learning and changing is only impressive when you’re doing it in the name of progress and not in the name of pandering to the most tactically expedient blend of reactionaries and progressives.
Hey, “strongly supporting gay marriage” is below the bare minimum. Same sex marriage has 71% support. Being any politician who doesn’t support same sex marriage is tactical suicide. Even Trump supports same sex marriage (7 years ago!) because it’d be stupid not to. Let me know when he actually takes a stand.
I remember the 90s. Society has changed drastically in 30 years.
Give the man credit for keeping up.
It doesn’t count as keeping up if you’re passively floating along with the average, that doesn’t take effort. That’s just being a moderate. The thing that takes effort is to either maintain a progressive platform or to maintain a reactionary one. Regression to mean is the opposite of keeping up.
You’re not content with what the party allows you to have? Gonna have a rough time in this community.
Are you kidding dude? He’s not playing against the total average, he’s playing against white wealthy boomer politicians, of which he is clearly progressing