Biden’s vision

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Thu, 03/08/2023 - 00:30
Updated
Thu, 03/08/2023 - 00:30
“If we get this right … a safer and more secure” world After Tuesday’s monumental third indictment of the immediate past president, perhaps a palate cleanser. Over the weekend, President Joe Biden, the president actually chosen by the America people in November 2020 visited Maine to talk about his administration’s progress on the economy. But it wasn’t his public remarks you need to read, it’s Heather Cox Richardson’s account of Biden’s remarks at a private reception in Freeport. Biden views change as a challenge, not something to run from but to embrace: Biden talked again about the world being at an inflection point, defining it as an abrupt turn off an established path that means you can never get back on the original path again. The world is changing, he said, and not because of leaders, but because of fundamental changes like global warming and artificial intelligence. “We’re seeing changes… across the world in fundamental ways. And so, we better get going on what we’re going to do about it, both in foreign policy and domestic policy.”  “Name me a part of the world that you think is going to look like it did 10 years ago 10 years from now,” he said. But Biden went on to make the case that such fundamental change “presents enormous opportunities.”  He began by outlining the economic successes of his administration: more than 13.2 million new jobs—including 810,000 jobs in manufacturing—inflation coming down, and so on. He attributed that success to his administration’s…