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Originally Posted by Luciom
The biggest reason to prefer Biden to Trump just evaporated
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The biggest reason to prefer Biden over Trump is the future selection of the supreme court justices. The reason Abortion is illegal in a number of red states right now is because of Trump appointed judges in the Supreme Court. There have also been a number of other critical issues like Voter Rights Act which the current supreme court and many appointed federal judges have started undoing.
Other reasons to prefer Biden aside from the appointment of judges would be pro choice abortion rights, racism, antisemitism, fighting white supremacy, LGTBQ rights, support for actual education (without banning history of slavery, gays, etc.), child poverty help (like the increased tax credit $), he doesn't lie anywhere near as much as Trump, NATO support, facing Kim Jung Un and Putin rather than caving in, immigration (by allowing immigration at the border inflation was reduced significantly as there were now workers available to pick food agriculturally where otherwise the food would have rotted on the vine)
Chinese tariffs are like at the bottom of the list. It is true that people will have to pay more for things but the flip side is that substantial number of jobs in the energy industry would end up defaulting away from the US. In the case of computer chips, electric vehicles, and production of electric energy sources this could mean huge trade deficits. Which in turn could lower the value of the dollar and cause prices to go up on imports.