Election 2020

[David Horn]

(02-14-2020, 11:36 AM)Eric the Green Wrote: ... Mike has major problems for Democratic primary voters. First, he's a billionaire trying to buy the election, and he uses his money to buy supporters. There's no magic to Mike except the magic of money. Second, his record on labor unions and hiring practices is poor. Third, his stop and frisk policy hurts him with blacks. Fourth, his shut down of Occupy hurts him with liberal youth. Fifth, not all voters like his nanny-state approach to indulgences like soda pop and grass. I'm sure there's more. His major appeal is competence, "Mike will get it done." We know how that fared with that other Mike. And he has no personality, even a complacent 'murican one like Nixon and the Bushes, which is fatal to a USA presidential candidate. In a year when Democrats are choosing who can beat Trump, that is a drawback that some Democratic primary voters might consider...

We should be at the end of a half-cycle, where the more progressive views begin to take hold in earnest.  I would prefer it that way; I hope it's true.  If the Dems select Bloomberg out of fear, and that's what it would be, then we're still awaiting the regeneracy that's out there somewhere.  You're right.  Mike Bloomberg cannot and will not be the one to reign in the excesses and point to a new way.  If he's the candidate, Dems will have to back him to the hilt, because the alternative is four more years of Trump literally tearing the guts out of the country.  It's questionable whether recovery would be possible in the aftermath.  Then again, a Bloomberg victory would forestall the arrival of the ne paradigm, yet again.  I'm not sure pushing a regeneracy out much further is possible, so we may fail this cycle.  If so, I would hope to live to an unreasonable age to see the next iteration finally fix things.