Election 2020

[Eric the Green]

(08-12-2020, 04:24 PM)David Horn Wrote:

(08-12-2020, 02:22 PM)Eric the Green Wrote:

(08-12-2020, 09:09 AM)David Horn Wrote:

(08-11-2020, 03:59 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: I think we may all rue the day. She will never be elected president.

At the moment, that's secondary to putting the Trump Clown Show  on the cancelled list.  If she helps with that, I'm happy. More to the point, she's hard to assail as a radical lefty or a tyrannical law-and-order type, and she's basically a nice person.  I guess it goes without saying that she's an FOAK.

I think putting the clown show off the air gets us 4 years, but does not get us through the 4T or provide us with a leader that we need for the next 8 years. So I am very unhappy. But I don't know what a FOAK is. Sorry, acronyms are not my strong suit.

If you're right, and she's not electable, then a challenger will emerge from the roughly 100 Democrats aching for the job. The Progressive wing got stiffed in 2016 and steamrollered in 2020.  I don't see them being all kissy face nice if they see Kamala tanking ... or even if she's doing politically well, but is weak on moving policy forward.  Everyone knows now, if they didn't before, that this is the one time for a very long time, that real change is possible.

FOAK = First Of A Kind

Ah, OK. Never have seen that acronym. But then, that's not unusual for me.

Kamala is not electable because of her poor speaking style, most of all. And she is quite accommodating to the winds of power too.

Normally though, in primary races among Democrats, if the vice president or former vice president runs, (s)he gets the nomination. So, Kamala will be tough to beat in the primary. The odds are she would win it, and then lose in the general election.

If that happens in 2024, once again the Democrats will be cut off before they can really accomplish anything, as they have been for 40 years or more, and their accomplishments will all be reversed, as they have been for 40 years or more. The rest of the 4T will be a left rebellion or secession movement that will be squelched, and then the USA will fully assume banana republic or oligarchic authoritarian status in fairly short order.

I have reasons to be optimistic, but the Democrats and the voters keep making these huge mistakes. Biden just made a whopper! What does that say about his decision-making abilities going forward? Not much that's good.