He's listed as a Democrat, though he may be to the right of where you personally want him to be.

Let's not confuse the issue.

The American political left/right scale is very silly on the international level. Republicans attack standard Party-Line Democrats as Socialists when in reality the vast majority of Democrats would be considered right wing in the EU and the Republican Party are more like Far Right extremists a la AfD, UKIP, etc.. Sanders himself would hardly be center-left in most EU parliaments.

Thank you. You expressed what I wanted to say better than I could.

It doesn’t matter what his policies are. The greatest power a President has that affects policy long after he is gone is his ability to nominate judges with lifetime appointments.

I hear this all the time but I have to say I have not seen actual data that supports it.

To take perhaps the highest-profile issue when it comes to judges: access to abortion remains federally protected today despite the last 5 Republicans promising to nominate judges to reverse that.

And that’s only because there have consistently been a majority of liberal judges.

Just this term they made decisions both forcing states to fund religious schools if they find secular private schools and in a separate decision, said that religious institutions have the right to discriminate.

Now we have a condition where my taxes must pay for people who could conceivably discriminate against me.

If RBG had retired or passed away before the recent abortion case, Roe v Wade would almost certainly have been overturned fully or partially a few days ago. The court voted 5-4 to uphold and whatever hyperconservative federalist society nutjob Trump would have nominated to replace her would virtually have guaranteed the opposite result.

Abortion isn't the only relevant case that the court could overturn, we have decisions like Citizens United that have essentially gutted the political process for a generation and in the past few days the courts have handed massive wins to Churches and conservatives that allow them to discriminate freely. To pretend the courts don't have massive power to dictate daily life in the US seems to be denying obvious truths.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/04/supreme-court-decision-in-lo...

Wait, what? Biden is a moderate Republican? I’m not American, I do not understand this comment. Can you explain?

Biden is a Democrat the same way DPRK is democratic. That is in name only. He is very much on the right side of the spectrum, the reason he's considered left is because the Republicans have moved so far to the right over the past several decades that you can call yourself a Democrat for being what would be considered a moderate Republican in the 80s.

The policies he's for are what the Conservative Party is for in the UK.

> The policies he's for are what the Conservative Party is for in the UK.

This may have been true the mid 2000s through 2015, but the Conservative Party in the UK is now dominated by the extreme right "European Research Group" (your DPRK comment is apt with regards to them), who are far more aligned with the right of the Republican party of today.

Point taken, but even if you look at the Tory party under DC, it was clearly a right-wing party. Not extreme right, but very firmly right.

That is the philosophy that Biden represents. My problem is with the American definition of left/right where somebody like Biden/Obama gets called a socialist. That's insane since by international standards they're not even left-wing.