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This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1346089
It would be nice to see Biden appoint some of the people who actually got him elected.
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I expect 85% plus will the same-o, same-o stuck in the past “experts” and we will see the same-o, same-o policies that favor the 1% with talking points for the rest of us. I’m not very confident the nation will move one step forward, especially when REPUGS are guaranteed to obstruct and when Dems insist on the middle of the road policies.
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There will be some “old stand bys” I’m sure and should be – Joe has declared himself a bridge and delay’s in transition with concomitant limitations in vetting means known quantities must be favored – but the mix will be completely novel, with women in posts they have never occupied before and ethnic leadership never introduced before but one thing is fairly certain I think: all will be competent and honorable at the work they are assigned.
All good things must start somewhere and I for one am glad to see that beginning and not simply because of the corrupt, larcenous kakistocratic horror that is ending either.
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Diversity is nice but what is really important is what his policies do for regular people. Diversity without human oriented progressive policy is just public relations fluff
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So the best we can hope for is back where we started? Disappointing but completely predictable.
i appreciate you talking about what efforts you have done in the past to change the country. one thing, now, that could have a positive effect is to begin messaging with what we appreciate and not what others ‘MUST’ do. things must change. we all have to do that. i’m thankful that biden/harris are willing to listen and act.
Back towards FDR more or less, yes; wouldn’t disappoint me much.
More important than diversity in Government is diversity at the ballot box. Therefore the first and most important act Biden must do is pass a voting rights act.
That is far more necessary than appointing women and people of color, Biden and the Democrats must pass a voting rights act that ends all these attempts to suppress or otherwise deny all American citizens the right to vote.
If Democrats control the Senate, win in Georgia, if they must end the filibuster to do it then no more filibuster. If they do not control the Senate, Trump and McConnell have shown us exactly how to get around the Congress, an emergency executive order.
If the Supreme Court does not ASAP agree to hear a case determining the constitutionality of a voting rights act and then find it constitutional, we all know what must be done.
Without a voting rights act to ensure the right to vote for everyone, little else will matter.