The Crisis That Never Ended

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(03-30-2020, 03:12 PM)gabrielle Wrote:

(03-30-2020, 12:56 PM)David Horn Wrote:

(03-30-2020, 07:00 AM)Eric the Green Wrote:

(03-29-2020, 10:38 PM)gabrielle Wrote:

(03-29-2020, 04:16 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: As far as policy is concerned, Cuomo would probably be less progressive than Biden. His horoscope score is a little lower, but he has no incipient senility (or what's the better word? I can't find it even on google!)

And then, you know, there is the other guy that's still in the race, the one who for the past few weeks has diverted funds from his campaign to various charities to aid with pandemic relief, the one whose Neo-New Deal policies would do the most to get us through this crisis and start the regeneracy...

Myself, I registered Democratic so I could vote for that other guy, and I did. Now though, Biden is whom we got, and I'm glad that despite a bad performance in an MSN interview recently, he was coherent and clear on Meet the Press yesterday speaking about the virus and stuff. So, as long as he can do that, I'm sure he'll be the nominee. I don't know if he will win. He still has a small lead over the virus in the White House.

Here's how I see the options:

1. All the Dems, including Bernie and his followers, unite behind Biden and he wins.  We have a quiet "return to normalcy" that satisfies no one, and the left and center battle it out again in 2024
   
2. All the Dems, including Bernie and his followers, unite behind Biden and he loses. Biden will be the last centrist this cycle
   
3. Dissension reigns in the Democratic Party, but Biden wins.  The Bernie Bros will never be taken seriously again, and the left will be a long time regrouping.
   
4. Dissension reigns in the Democratic Party and Biden loses. The Democrats will come apart at the seams, unless Bernie does a huge mea culpa -- a highly unlikely event.
   

Pick your poison.  In order of preference, Ill go for 1, 3, 2, 4.  I might chose differently if the circumstances were different, but we can't have Trump for 8.

I'm not sure there is any "return to normalcy" after this.  Covid 19 has caused the bottom to drop out from underneath us.  Many in this country don't seem to realize how dire things really are, we are like cartoon characters briefly suspended in air before we fall.  The only thing that might save us would be drastic measures such as what Sanders proposes (and Biden continues to waffle about), and I'm not even sure if that will be enough.  I hope I'm wrong.  Please God let me be wrong.

I would think that all the stay at home and shelter in places would qualify as drastic measures. It is now thought that these measures might have to be in place for approximately five weeks. Will be interesting to see what the aftermath holds. Will there be a gold rush by many folks overeager to make up for lost time at that point, which would coincide with the beginning of the warm weather season?