08-07-2022, 09:13 AM
(08-06-2022, 03:37 PM)Eric the Green Wrote:(08-06-2022, 12:35 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: It will look better in print. It will sound better in someone else's voice. That will matter in 2024.
It sounded good from his voice too. We don't have anyone else to replace Biden. We need to support him, and prod him to move a bit faster.
What will matter is if anyone else is nominated. Then we are almost certain to lose!
Biden came back and beat the other Democrats and Trump for a reason. And it is not just because he won one primary election. He will come back again.
President Biden is not in campaign mode. He has other concerns, and if he fails at them he should not be re-elected. Trump always was in campaign mode, and he was terribly ineffective as President. Even if one likes Trump's agenda as much as I abhor it one must recognize Trump as a failure. His one lasting achievement is to have nominated three Justices to the US Supreme Court who passed the vetting of a shadowy organization on the political fringe and gotten them past a bare GOP majority that failed in the role of "advise and consent". The first decision of the Supreme Court that he shaped has created legal chaos. Stare decisis exists to prevent such chaos by ensuring that legal precedents remain valid. The alternative is to scrap English common law for European-style civil law, which establishes all rights by statute. If one starts from nothing, both the French-style civil code and the Anglo-American common law are equally valid. The transition from one to the other is chaotic.
The legal chaos involves abortion, and all that matters is to some is that the Will of God (really, natural consequences of any reproductive activity) is to be honored no matter how horrible. The logic behind the revocation of Roe v. Wade is analogous to saying that if it is God's Will (really "fate") that someone gets sick from a bacterial infection, then safe and effective antibiotics that would interfere with the "Will of God" must be denied. It is not up to any person to decide what the Will of God is except on moral law. In that case one can in no way excuse rape as the Will of God because rape is an abomination.
I can only imagine what other mischief is possible with stooges of the John Birch -- excuse me, Federalist -- Society. People who insist on owning everything and allowing others who own nothing to live solely at their whim are the sorts of political leadership that has typically created the mass misery that precedes a proletarian or at least Jacobin revolution. 95% of the people suffering for a 2% who contributes nothing but legal and administrative bureaucracy (about 3% of the people in any society, like senior military officers, police administrators, college professors, physicians, dentists, CPA's, and creative people can thrive under any order) describes Imperial Russia or the plantation order of the Old South. Imagine an America without contraception, in which women and minorities cannot compete with white men for the jobs that white, Anglo-Saxon, "Christian" men want, in which K-12 education that is not a sick joke is a privilege only for those that the politicians deem worthy, in which workers have no rights to contest the despotic management of bosses and owners, in which everything that can be so treated is privatized to monopolistic profiteers, and in which industry pollutes to its heartless content. So far as I can tell about the current GOP., which might as well be the John Birch Society. he who owns the gold makes the rules for the rest of us. Such is either feudalism or fascism, and under either we are f---ed.
We need a New Birth of Freedom. as Abraham Lincoln put it, even at the expense of self-esteem and conspicuous consumption.
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.