Biden’s generation “changed the world”. Biden himself, however, has no right to claim any credit for any of the changes-he played no significant role in the black freedom movement, and he openly sneered at the anti-Vietnam War activists at the campus where he was going through law school, the people who were actually trying to stop the war while he sat on the sidelines deriding them.

And-And I say this as someone who is almost sixty-white activists today have it MUCH harder than white activists did in the Sixties-I say white activists here because black, brown, and indigenous activists have had it tougher than white activists in every era. The truth is, white activists in Biden’s generation-the generation in which Biden did nothing whatsoever to change the world, did nothing at all really but wear a tie and think of as many possible ways to appease the white backlash and the Nixon/Wallace/Reagan “law and order” obsessives-white activists of the sort Biden falsely tries to attach himself to, had it pretty damn easy. They all knew that, if and when the movement collapsed, they could count on using their white skin privileges to get some sort of comfy, high-paying lifetime job. Activists of all races today-and even those young people who aren’t activists but are simply trying to get a start in life-are probably going to spend their entire lives struggling to survive, will be blacklisted from any steady employment-as will most people, to be honest-and the wealth that is created by labor, the wealth we ALL create, will be hoarded by a few at the time…mainly the arrogant, stereotypical “Boomer” types who keep going on about how cool Woodstock was, at the same time, make sure that none of the values Woodstock and the best of Sixties activists lived, sometimes died(as just as many milennial activists will die in the struggle they devote their lives to)survive.

Joe Biden’s smug, privileged dismissiveness embodies all of that. He is the classic “Deadhead sticker on a Cadillac” type.