tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598883894140893389.post3642805499757802469..comments2024-01-02T22:01:12.976+00:00Comments on Avedon's Sideshow: It's the terror of knowing what this world is aboutAvedonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04702100335744054401noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598883894140893389.post-81246143579451005362020-07-25T16:40:27.100+01:002020-07-25T16:40:27.100+01:00I wonder why Joe Biden is the Democratic nominee i...I wonder why Joe Biden is the Democratic nominee instead of virtually anyone else. However, I rather lost any nostalgic admiration for Gore. He campaigned so hard for NAFTA with promises about the labor and environmental protections that would be added. Then when NAFTA turned out even worse than its critics predicted, immiserating small Mexican farmers and subsidizing the export of American manufacturing and creating serious environmental issues, he moved on. He took up environmentalism, but I have never heard him address the problem that trade treaties create for the environment. I thought he had a duty to do that, given his promises about NAFTA. He also has not, to the best of my knowledge, given up his fondness for aggressive expansion of so-called intellectual property.nihil obstethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02336022385130880362noreply@blogger.com