• anarchiddy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    23 hours ago

    Biden was a fundamentalist catholic who thought homosexuality was a sin and abortion was murder.

    Everything he did that could be considered progressive he did as a compromise to his own values - that’s what makes him a moderate.

    That’s exactly the type of person this article is talking about.

    • turtlesareneat@discuss.online
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      22 hours ago

      Eh I’ve spoken to Biden personally about gay rights, dude’s not bigoted and leans into the progressive catholic church. His wife being a physician doesn’t see abortion as murder I don’t think. His conservative tendencies are that he’s establishment - he thinks he’s still playing the same football game they’ve been playing since he was a kid. He’s neoliberal as hell as is the entire Democratic leadership, which turns people off.

      • ἀνάγκη@lemm.ee
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        20 hours ago

        His wife being a physician

        She isn’t though. She’s an Ed.D (her doctorate is in education) not an MD.

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          5 hours ago

          She also has an MEd, which is a Master’s in Education. I think people like the one you’re replying to skim her Wiki and read it as Med, as in Medical, which is hilarious.

      • anarchiddy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        22 hours ago

        A catholic fundamentalist will only support marriage as a universal right when not supporting it becomes a liability, for the same reason catholicism and christianity writ large legitimized and supported the institutions of slavery and segregation for far longer than they were publicly popular for

        Biden, for all his notable progressive compromises, will drag his feet against doing anything insufficiently popular, no matter how unjust the alternative is.