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Some notable points addressed by this plan:

Expanding American railway systems

Fixing the crumbling roads, bridges, dams, etc. that haven't been kept up

Capping abandoned oil wells

Undoing Trump's financial bailout policies for unclean energy companies

Reinvesting in American-made automotive companies

Getting America to 100% clean energy by 2035

Fixing air, water, and ground pollution issues that disproportionately affect poc

Getting justice for victims of environmental racism

Reinstating a bunch of environmental and medical jobs Trump had cut

I don’t like the guy, and I doubt if most of this would actually get done, but please, it’s better than the guy actively dismantling anything good we have and pushing us backwards

A new policy change to prevent trans women from accessing homeless shelters is teaching people how to police gender presentation and physical features just so the country can legalize a new way to get away with killing us.

This is the shit we would have four more years of if Biden loses.

Shelter workers may use “factors such as height, the presence (but not the absence) of facial hair, the presence of an Adam’s apple, and other physical characteristics which, when considered together, are indicative of a person’s biological sex,” the rule says.

If a homeless person appears too transgender for a homeless shelter, the shelter is allowed to ask them for proof of “biological sex.”

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2020/07/trump-administration-memo-explains-spot-transgender-woman/

Biden wasn’t even my fifth choice in the primaries.  But we have to focus on the general now.  There are only two possible outcomes this November.  We’ve seen how one of them turned out for us, and we all know damn well it’s only getting worse, and getting worse faster.  Do not forget that the other outcome is not just about Biden; there’s an entire Democratic platform that comes in with him, along with a complete 180 in White House staff, federal appointments, judicial confirmations, etc.  And the judicial confirmations ALONE are a huge deal.  If you are somehow NOT convinced that Biden would be better for us than Trump, I need you to understand the existential threat of these words:

Losing Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s seat to another Brett Kavanaugh.

Do NOT let your ideological purity put us through THAT.

firstly, the central points of this post are that you need to vote DOWN THE BALLOT because newsflash the presidency isn’t the only election and that voting biden does more than just him it also allows RBG to retire and gives us our first female vp and a progressive presidential cabinet. 

now for yall acting like biden and trump are the same im going to highly encourage you to do a few things. 1, go read biden’s policy platform. 2, go look at every politician and organization who has endorsed him… people like bernie and warren and obama… organizations like the congressional black caucus 3, turn on the news and go read up about how trump is sending in federal officers to brutalize peaceful protesters and how he threatened to send in the us military, and how he’s blocking the cdc now from collecting coronavirus data. 

We’re alreading removing the separations of Church and State through recent Supreme Court rulings. I want you to imagine future Conservative Supreme Court rulings on the following cases:

Religious School funding

School integration vs segregation

Limits on police brutality

Voting rights and protections

Healthcare coverage

Marriage rights for LGBT couples

Housing/job/healthcare discrimination on basis of ‘religion’ against women, other religious members, lgbt people

Immigrant rights and immigration rates

Affirmative action

Climate change and EPA requirements

Employee rights

This is the ONE THING that really is black and white because our voting system is a fucking shit show and NOW you wanna go third option? FOR THIS? For a shitty candidate vs literal fascism? Your choices are a guy you’d never date and the local serial killer and NOW YOURE THINKING “I SHOULD SIT THIS ONE OUT?”

Here. An example from Obama.

When he took the White House, he was against marriage equality.

By the time he left it, he was joyfully attending same-sex weddings and showing his support. In his own words, he evolved on the issue.

He didn’t do it in a vacuum. During his years in the White House he talked to people, read books and reports, prayed, and most importantly HE LISTENED. He realized his position was incorrect, and revised it. LIKE A GOOD AND FUNCTIONING ADULT.

So now I want you to imagine the people on the top three tiers of your ballot: President, governor (if applicable), and House/Senate.

Think about each candidate and an issue on which the two of you disagree.

Now imagine you have the chance to have coffee with these candidates, and have a conversation.

Which candidates end the conversation with “you’ve certainly given me something to think about” or “I’ll have to look into that, it’s an interesting viewpoint” or “thank you for sharing your experiences with me”?

Which ones brush you off, never let you speak, insist you’re wrong, condescend to you, move the goalposts?

The people in that first category are the ones you want to vote for. I literally voted for someone once because I asked her opinion on a bill and she said “you know what? I haven’t had the chance to read it yet. But give me your email, I’ll make it a point to get back to you in the next few days” AND SHE DID. It helped a lot that her stances on education and M4A mostly matched my own, but the moment I got that email sealed the deal for me. It takes a lot to say “I don’t know enough to have an informed opinion, let me learn.”