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That's what happens when someone is able to admit they're not an expert at everything and they surround themselves with people who are.
It's really cool to see. I did not have high hopes for Biden for a lot of his older policy decisions I didn't agree with, but I'm extremely impressed with what he's managed to do for civil rights and social awareness in his first term.
I'm not doubting just could you maybe elaborate?
Here's a couple pretty good lists of all the executive orders and legislation Biden has passed during his first term that has explicitly strengthened anti-discrimination laws against LGBTQ, provided funding, initiated lawsuits against anti-LGBTQ laws and initiatives, reversed the ban on transgender military, and other stuff:
https://www.hrc.org/resources/president-bidens-pro-lgbtq-timeline
https://www.americanprogress.org/article/timeline-biden-administrations-efforts-support-lgbtq-equality-first-100-days/
The risk in that is that those "experts" might have their own interests. For compamies usually
And the alternative is having people who don't know shit about fuck making decisions potentially based on their own interests.
What's better?
Independent experts that at least somehow try to be neutral. And politicians who have to reason their decisions.
A couple off the top of my head:
All are subject matter experts that contribute to laws and policy decisions to varying degrees.
Edit: National Institute of Health, CDC,
So exactly what I said from the get go.