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Here’s What To Like About Joe Biden And His Policies
I’ve written a lot of stories criticizing Donald Trump. While he clearly deserves the criticism, I thought it would be beneficial to look at some of the specific positives of Joe Biden’s campaign, and what exactly he offers.
Many people are prepared to “settle for Biden” — a slogan indicating that the necessity of beating Trump outweighs Biden’s lack of progressive bonafides. I’d count myself among those people.
I will, however, give a few examples in this article of promising policies that Biden offers:
He will aim for legitimate campaign finance reform
Biden is generally a moderate candidate, but he has especially radical ideas in one aspect of policy — government reform and combatting corruption.
He wants to introduce a constitutional amendment that will eliminate private dollars from campaign financing. That means he will overturn the Citizens United Supreme Court case that famously declared corporations as people. Forcing campaigns to be funded solely through public dollars would lessen the influence of greedy corporations and lobbyists.
He also advocates legislation to provide public matching funds to small-dollar donations to federal candidates, freeing first-time candidates from the necessity of big-money donors. In…