What I considered and wrote this morning to explain WHY I voted for Joe Biden when he does not support ALL my philosophy nor that of Robert Reich philosophy nor that of Bernie Sanders philosophy (both Reich & Sanders also voted for Biden as I did)
Perhaps some may see themselves in the same tight shoes I wore:
Countries as well as their Leaders can change the tempo over time –
It may not happen immediately, but over time, after an “initial step” the new ideas promoted as the Aquarian Age ideas perhaps – no longer seems so strange nor off putting.
For example – The $15.00 an h our wage for everyone starting out ,called by Senator Sanders, “a living wage” was initially seen as ridiculously high. Even Hillary Clinton only came up with $12.00 an hr in her campaign. But now since Bernie introduced this originally, many States have decided to incorporate a living wage into their politics. Some will not pay that amount immediately, but over a period of a few years. Some have done so immediately with more corrections to come over time.
The point being, IF you have a politician like Joe Biden, who is willing to surround himself with
a few progressives and even listen to what they have to say (i.e. Vice Pres. Kamala Harris, or Pete Buttigieg now in his new administration as a nominee) and talking to Senator Sanders and actually giving him the benefit of the doubt, we have someone that can CHANGE towards a better country being built.
Isn’t that their mantra? “
Build Back Better?”
Change doesn’t happen overnight, but change CAN happen when you have someone willing to listen, willing to consider other’s viewpoints too, and even showing he can adapt, by adding people you’d never think in the past….I consider this very hopeful for our future. With Donald Trump you had no such person , you only had denial about everything and someone insisting he knew MORE then the experts, then the doctors and then the Mlitary. No change for the better can occur with this type of person and attitude.
With Joe Biden, you now have someone who listened when he was told by Kamala Harris, “I was that little girl”…..and instead of telling her off, he made her his VP pick.
With Joe Biden you now have someone who listened when he was told publically, that with MeToo movement, what he did was wrong (pestering little girls), kissing their hair, or touching them….He said in response to this criticiam, “I’ll change” “I didn’t realize that was what I was doing “
Can you imagine a Donald Trump reacting to criticism this way? Saying
“thank you, and I’ll change?” or words to that effect.
During the Administration for 4 years of DJT, he had mostly millionaires and Billionaires and Corporate Lobbyists who made themselves richer through their given positions paid for by the taxpayers. Someone counted how many there were – 281 of them! In banking, in mining, in corporations like Amway (Betsy DeVoss) and you name it.
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/10/a-staggering-281-lobbyists-have-worked-in-the-trump-administration/
Joe Biden is going to consider having only a few if any – he can see that this is not the way to go in the Age of Aquarius which we are entering…..a tiny step here, a small step there………not all at once, but eventually.
I believe we go forward and not backwards in time or the way the country operates. It seems to me, Joe Biden may have that same kernel of belief at least open minded enough to consider.
Quote “Trump’s swamp is anything but drained. The number of lobbyists who have served in government jobs is four times more than the Obama administration had six years into office. And former lobbyists serving Trump are often involved in regulating the industries they worked for. It’s a “staggering figure,” according to Virginia Canter, ethics chief counsel for the D.C.-based legal nonprofit Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/10/a-staggering-281-lobbyists-have-worked-in-the-trump-administration/
We tracked the lobbyists as part of an update to Trump Town, our database of political appointees. We’ve added the names of 639 new staffers with the administration and the financial disclosures of 351 political appointees who have filled different positions over the past year, and we tracked the careers of 338 who departed government during the same period.
[FONT="]During his 2016 campaign, Mr. Trump had pledged to “drain the swamp” in Washington.[/FONT]
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An analysis by ProPublica and the Columbia Journalism School in 2019 found more than 280 lobbyists had served in positions in the Trump administration.[/FONT]
https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/latest-updates-biden-trump-election-2020/card/JoZ9MsykGqwQ8EA40uul
Change “towards” a better future:
The Biden transition team has sought to limit the influence of lobbyists in setting up the new administration. Its
ethics rules don’t impose a blanket ban on lobbyists, but they require individuals who are registered lobbyists, or have registered as lobbyists within the past year, to get approval from the transition’s general counsel to serve on the team. Five people on the teams are currently registered as lobbyists or were registered within the last year, according to the Journal’s analysis.
In addition, the Journal identified 35 people who had registered as lobbyists prior to this year and who do not need special approval to work on the transition. Those individuals lobbied for a range of companies, unions and advocacy groups—from BP America, Inc. and a company that owns private prisons to the Environmental Defense Fund and the American Federation of Teachers. Some haven’t lobbied for more than a decade, while others lobbied in recent years.
Notice too, that $15.00 an hour to start is not such an outrageous idea any longer for labor, nor is Universal Single-Payer Health Care, all initiated (a first step a seed planted) by Progressive Senator Sanders. NOW, its more commonplace to consider by most including States who have initiated these changes towards Progress which sounds more like the movement to the Aquarian Age.
