07-26-2020, 11:30 AM
(07-26-2020, 04:36 AM)Classic-Xer Wrote:(07-25-2020, 08:43 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote: I expect his motive is more saving America. If it were just the Democratic Party at risk, he would likely let another candidate take it. With Trump, he was in a position to do what is necessary.America is fine. The Democratic party is more at risk of falling apart. I think its pretty clear that the elites had no faith in any of the other candidates which why Biden had to be coaxed out of retirement to unify and save the Democratic party from imminent destruction.
1. America will be fine after it divests itself of Donald Trump as a wannabe-despot.
2. It looks more as if the Republican Party has an internal rift between traditional norms in politics (checks and balances, separation of powers, objective reality, and rejection of demagogic anti-intellectualism) and Donald Trump. On these matters one wing of the Republican Party has much in common with the mainstream of the Democratic Party now that we Democrats found something that we absolutely had to defend.
3. Less flawed than the others? That is a normal criterion for political victories in promary and general elections.
4. In view of the actuarial concerns that I would legitimately have with anyone crossing 80 as President I hope that Joe Biden well chooses a Vice President.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.