The Coronavirus

[David Horn]

(06-13-2020, 01:25 PM)Eric the Green Wrote:

(06-13-2020, 07:39 AM)David Horn Wrote:

(06-12-2020, 06:25 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:

(06-12-2020, 02:00 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: The ecological and global warming aspects CANNOT be left out of the blue agenda and the crisis resolution in this 4T. Science makes that clear. Solutions must be instituted in this 4T, or they will be too late. Even so, further push will be needed in the 2T and I agree with your prediction about it.

I strongly sympathize.  People are being disappointed in advance of Biden.  We don't know how he will balance the economy and the planet.  We don't know if his VP choice will step up.  Still, I can't see what other than ecology is on deck for the awakening.

Anyone?

Biden is a quintessential Silent.  He's all about pouring oil on troubled water, and a lot less about taking a stand.  Unfortunately, as desirable as his sympathetic position is, it mends the heart but has zero impact on actual problems. That said, you can't doubt that he's fully sincere.  Look at his personal history.  But he's not the right person to hold that job today.  Worse, it's looking more likely that his VP choice will be someone like him in focus: healing wounds, not building better institutions.  It will be a lost opportunity.

Again I remind you. You put too much stock in leaders. The leader will have to bend to the national will.

You assume there still is such a thing as national will.  I see a shattered system made up of groups of likeminded individuals, but few if any universal beliefs.  Coalescing that into a powerful whole is the work of leaders -- far too few in evidence at the moment.