Vice President Joe Biden doesn’t think too much about immigration policy or the economy these days. At least, that’s what he told a group of Millennials at the Make Progress National Summit in Washington, D.C. Wednesday afternoon.
Biden told the group that they must pick their progressive priorities “without apology” because, as his dad told him, “if everything is equally important to you, nothing is important.”
He then proceeded to write his own list of progressive priorities in this order.
1. Equal rights — His top priority was met with loud cheers. Biden said he specifically meant “gay marriage,” an issue he said the American people were “way ahead” of their leaders on.
2. Violence against women and campus sexual assault — “Eliminating this savagery” must be done, Biden proclaimed.
3. “Unfettered access to the ballot box” — Biden specifically mentioned voter identification laws in states like North Carolina that have many Democrats up in arms.
4. Climate change — Biden praised Obama’s work on this issue, calling it the “single most significant challenge” of our time.
5. Immigration — Biden never mentioned the current border crisis or offered any specific policy changes. He just called America a “nation of immigrants” and said it was the “overwhelming reason why America is what it is today.”
6. Jobs and the economy — Despite talking to Millennials at this event, Biden ignored the high millennial unemployment rate and instead focused on class warfare. He said he wanted to believe in a nation that says, “if you work for a living, if you are a hard-working American, you matter just as much as someone living on investments.”
We should probably just be grateful the economy cracked his top 10.
