(03-11-2021, 11:54 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:(03-11-2021, 09:51 PM)HealthyDebate Wrote: It's time to question Biden's mental health
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/202...al-health/
Don't you know/understand that you can't question Biden or any high ranking Democrat these days? It's immoral, it's racist, it's a direct threat to ones personal well being/lively hood and it's damn near illegal to do it these days. I don't know what's worse, a senile old man who can't remember what he did a few days ago or where he's at while he's making a speech and so forth or a token narcissist who is driven by money and power who will most likely move America to the brink of Civil War?
What we liberals said about Trump you turn against Biden in an exercise reminiscent of foreign-language courses in which one changes a word or two and must change the sentence to fit the word that is replaced. It is trivial to a native speaker, but tricky to a learner. Americans do not need to make adjectives agree with the gender of a noun or pronoun, and our verbal system is almost perfect for a phrasebook... which does not apply to French, German, or Russian.
It is safe to assume that President Biden will better know that he is slipping when such happens. He is far more likely to heed the medical and scientific evidence. If it does not fit the precious esteem of Donald Trump he refuses it with great vehemence.
Donald Trump sought to pit Americans against each other so that he could exploit the rancor, some of which he expressed himself. He would set himself as arbiter of what side is right and which is wrong, as if he were some great moral leader. I can't say that this is quite a perfect depiction, but I could imagine Donald Trump using his cult of personality to draw America into a divide reminiscent of Yugoslavia under Milosevic in which differences are cause for destructive anger.
Good leaders can back down when such is appropriate. Trump did not do that. Sure, that can be decisiveness that resembles strength, but one is wise to use one's strength and resolve for good purposes. One could be resolutely wrong as could the Unabom terrorist or some wannabe Hitler. Good leaders must know the difference between Right and Wrong on the moral issues and choose the moral side even if such is temporarily inconvenient. Bad leaders fail to recognize such legitimacy as the Other Side has. Classical standards of beauty remain relevant. To this day Jews debate ethical issues that arise from challenges of modernity... and Judaism is alive and well today despite the hardships, persecutions, and slaughters. The Founding Fathers did not have all the answers, as they had yet to decide that slavery was wrong, that women were equal, that aggressive warfare for the expansion of a nation is abominable, and that workers have rights or a social order is a nightmare -- but they certainly made those debates inevitable.
As the bleakest of all Christmas carols, one written during the American Civil War, puts it
"The Wrong shall fail, the Right prevail"...
it could have as well applied to Corregidor or Bastogne... or to a COVID-19 ward in the last year.
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.