January 20th, 2021, Joseph R, Biden is sworn in as the United States’ 46th president after Kamala Harris was sworn in as the country’s 47 Vice President and the first women to hold such a position in the countries 245 years. In a speech lasting twenty-one minutes, the newly inaugurated president pledge to unify his nation – the word unity being used eight times in his whole speech – during his campaign Biden expressed his wish to be a president for all and to fight and push bipartisan bills and laws: the president has declared himself as being a Bastian for all, citing that he will “[bring] America together. Uniting [his] people.” in a powerful speech – all but second to that of Amanda Gorman’s poem that sent shockwaves to across the globe – President Biden sent a glimmer of hope to his country and potentially to the world – but what does this mean for us all? For the many non-American readers, what does the departure of the 45th administration and the call for unity of the 46th mean for us?

Before entering office, the POTUS, VP, and their soon to be administration described their understanding of the US being the victim of six crises that they depict as being vitally in need of extirpation. These crises range from rebuilding the economy after COVID-19, creating racial equity, expunging the climate emergency, immigration, and restoring America's global standing. All such crises are bold, inspiring, and oftentimes favour the Democratic party – which arguably hinders POTUS’ plan to be a bipartisan president for all – of these many crises the most diverse cabinet in US history pledge to expunge, how – if at all – will it affect us non-Americans?

In one of the President’s first executive orders, Biden declared and affirmed that the US will be re-joining the Paris accord – the same revolutionary climate entente that former, two times impeached, President Trump abruptly withdrew the US in what could only be seen as an act to further the position of the rich and continue siphoning the earth's depleting resources. The US’ return reaffirms to the world and recentres the importance of reducing global carbon emissions in an act to mitigate our warming climate; given the US is one of the largest contributors to greenhouse gasses this has global reverberations and will help catalyse an era of sustainability.

“President Biden is putting equity at the [centre] of the agenda with a whole of government approach to embed racial justice across Federal agencies, policies, and programs.”. Racial Equity is a phrase that has been used an abundant number of times in the last few months, but what does that mean? “Racial equity is about applying justice and a little bit of common sense to a system that’s been out of balance.  When a system is out of balance, people of color feel the impacts most acutely” (Glen Harris, President of the Center for Social Inclusion). Laconically the meaning of racial equity is the expulsion of all privileges that non-POC have to allow for a more just and equal society. In the context of the united states, Biden has expressed his wish to reform the criminal justice system, end disparities in healthcare access and education, and strengthen fairer housing. One would hope, if all such things were mandated – their actual implementation would be much harder to examine – that it would highlight to countries across the globe the need to create a racially equal climate and promotion of racial equity. We have seen over these last many months, the fight to extricate ourselves from racial injustice implode after the many documented merciless attacks of POC across the globe – we have all been forced to educate ourselves of what is truly happening across the globe and our elected officials are being forced into delivering on these things to make our society and its countries equal for all.

While not entirely one of the crises the Biden-Harris Administration identified, another major disparity and they thus promised to raise taxes for those who make an aberrantly high amount of money, in contrast to those earning and living in the most precarious of situations. This is something that would not dare be seen as a bipartisan bill, the GOP wouldn’t possibly agree to raise taxes, while the top 1% must be charged a tax adequate and relative to their income in a hope to once redistribute wealth, their fiscal conservatism wouldn’t possibly allow for an increase in their taxes. If taxes were to be raised for the richest in our society, it would allow for the idea of fiscal equity to prevail across our world. For too long, the richest amongst us have lived with the luxury of contributing barely anything back into our society. Biden-Harris’ tax plan would create a divide between the parties in America but would undoubtedly benefit the working classes in America – alongside the increased taxes, the introduction of stimulus relative to peoples precarious incomes could seriously promote the idea of the redistribution of wealth which could beget an era of class conciseness and potentially see the slimming of the divide between the classes.

While America sees itself as the world, and as a shining light that sets precedent to all that happens in our world it seems that is merely the nonsensical narcissism of a vainglorious country. America prides itself on being the best and number one but the things that the States rank number one in arent things that should be excessively praised and or gloated about. Having the worlds largest prison population, and the largest defence expenditure is both things that should be detested and feared. It seems that while the things the Biden-Harris administration wish to implement their impact on the world is futile and while our media is so attenuated with America, its news, and politics on the exclusion of the precedence that the country sets it truly changes nothing for us.