I could see very specific cases where arbitration makes sense with a very well defined scope. "Parties agree that disputes over widget quality related to this agreement are to be adjudicated by the Widget Quality Counsel". The courts are not always the best arbiters for every dispute.
However, what we have now is every corporation finding ways to slide arbitration clauses of global scope into every transaction. That is always bullshit.
Of the two, I think the Democratic consultants do more damage.
There are very few people in the world that are more worthless than Democratic political consultants.
That's a pretty generous summation of the problems with Biden's debate performance. It was also hardly a one-off. Every time Biden appears it's a coin flip for which Biden shows up, which is why he appears so infrequently.
You are absolutely right about how Trump's bullshit gets largely ignored by the press though.
Arbitration contracts, especially in click-through licenses, are always bullshit and should be universally thrown out.
It was pro-Israel protesters that rioted and pro-Palestine/anti-genocide protesters that paid the price.
Everybody who voted for Biden didn't even vote for Biden. The 2020 election wasn't about Biden or Harris, it was about Trump.
Voters rejected Kamala pretty hard in the 2020 primary. I'm pleased with the current momentum and thrilled with her VP pick, but associating Kamala's run with respect for voter's wishes is a bit of a stretch. It was the Democratic establishment that positioned her to be the candidate, not voters.
There are certainly a lot of places where Democrats have fallen short but, in the big picture, Democrats are far less hostile to average Americans than the Republicans.
The worse the Republicans get, the more people want to see the Democrats as the "good guys". That has unfortunately not been validated by Democratic policy most of the time. They do try to cater to average Americans, but only in ways that are palatable to the donor class. Republicans offer nothing to average Americans and rely entirely on culture war nonsense for popular support.
Agreed. It's pretty telling that none of these corporations would accept an open ended arbitration clause in their dealings with any other corporation.