Is President Biden too old and dated, or is he the gray champion

[David Horn]

(09-03-2022, 01:53 PM)Eric the Green Wrote:

(09-03-2022, 06:56 AM)David Horn Wrote: If Biden is reelected, he'll default to caretaker status relatively early in his second term -- better than having an arsonist in charge but too little to create real change.  Once again, the monied will escape and this will settle finally into 1980ish neoliberal lite in the 1T.  It could be worse.  It should be better.

Biden will still be in charge and pushing for the changes that we'll need. There being no-one else, he will be more than a caretaker. He certainly doesn't have a veep who can take over. Is there a potential House speaker who can fill that role? I don't see that person. A big challenge will be to put down the violent uprisings by the militias of the right wing in the mid-2020s after he wins re-election. I think he is ready and willing to meet the challenge, as he says he is.

This is a direct result of the Silent/Boomer leadership of both parties hanging on and not letting go.  Younger pols have just waved and sreamed, but they can't get traction.  The voting youth have decided it's futile, and just walked away.  Running Biden again will just seal the deal.  2028 will be a bloodbath.

Eric Wrote:We should do better than we will in this 4T. I guess that's true in most 4Ts. The status quo or a reactionary trend can make a comeback in 1Ts, but they also carry forward the momentum of the changes made during 4Ts, to varying degrees. The question is will we do what we need to do to steer the ship of state on a better course, whether everything gets done that should be done or not. Passing the climate action was a good first step, and as he said we are only just beginning. It will take a Democratic congress to do more. Biden is not to blame if we haven't gotten done all we should; the Democrats in the House did what was needed. The voters did not give Biden a real majority in the Senate, so that limited the results. Again it needs to be continually said. No president can do much without a congress, unless you want a dictator...

We may get lucky, but the odds aren't high.  The last 4T fixed international afairs at the price of domesitc ones.  As important as international issues are again this time, we may have to risk foreign problem to solve the problems at home.  We may be the #1 nation, but we're not the only nation.  It's time for our allies to carry more of the burden and give us room to fix our internal politics, but will they?