02-07-2020, 02:48 PM
Iowa is a weird bird in its caucuses. It can sort things out at times, mostly by deciding what incumbents drop out. Maybe a Governorship or a Senate seat isn't so bad after all.
It could be that the attempt to smear Joe Biden through his son worked. Let us hope that the November election does not result with millions of people seeing a close election that Biden would have won but Trump won against someone with evident flaws, worst of all with the GOP consolidating strength in both Houses of Congress (including a House majority) that sets America up for a right-wing dictatorship. Republicans seem so far to have more ability to play down bigger scandals because as authoritarian right-wingers they more tolerate roguish behavior in the name of power.
I still want to believe that who wins the Democratic nomination, no matter who, will defeat the most despotic, corrupt, demagogic, and cruel President ever -- one who can start exacting revenge upon anyone who gets in his way.
So far Trump has been far more effective in forcing lockstep obedience from Republicans out of fear. Trump has yet to faze Democrats. Maybe it is harder to intimidate people of principle on things that matter.
It could be that the attempt to smear Joe Biden through his son worked. Let us hope that the November election does not result with millions of people seeing a close election that Biden would have won but Trump won against someone with evident flaws, worst of all with the GOP consolidating strength in both Houses of Congress (including a House majority) that sets America up for a right-wing dictatorship. Republicans seem so far to have more ability to play down bigger scandals because as authoritarian right-wingers they more tolerate roguish behavior in the name of power.
I still want to believe that who wins the Democratic nomination, no matter who, will defeat the most despotic, corrupt, demagogic, and cruel President ever -- one who can start exacting revenge upon anyone who gets in his way.
So far Trump has been far more effective in forcing lockstep obedience from Republicans out of fear. Trump has yet to faze Democrats. Maybe it is harder to intimidate people of principle on things that matter.
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.