10-01-2020, 01:58 PM
(This post was last modified: 10-01-2020, 05:20 PM by Eric the Green.)
(10-01-2020, 09:22 AM)David Horn Wrote:(09-30-2020, 10:33 PM)Eric the Green Wrote:(09-30-2020, 06:55 PM)David Horn Wrote:(09-29-2020, 06:50 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:(09-29-2020, 10:42 AM)David Horn Wrote: It's sad that it takes Vote Vets and the Lincoln Project to get ads with teeth in them.
Perhaps, but I think the idea is that as long as somebody is doing attack adds, Biden can just look presidential.
He needs to look engaged! Why do we have a Silent running for POTUS now? It's just so wrong.
FWIW, Bernie may be a Silent by cohort, but he's more a mix of Prophet and Civic by temperament. But he's not the Silent we got.
It all depends who steps up. The best candidates did not. All the Democratic primary candidates were losers, and they proved it by losing to two old gentlemen (who of course had the best two horoscope scores).
Joe is old and tired already. He may not make it to 2024, and even if he does, he shows no sign of being even a little progressive. Not surprising: people in the alternate news universe are scared to death that he's a radical leftist coming for <insert your fear of choice>. Can we get much further apart?
He's shown some progressive signs. Trump has not been hesitant to point out how he is listening to "radical leftists" like Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders. His program or "vision" as expressed on his website is pretty ambitious. His program is something less than the Green New Deal and Medicare for All, and he denied that it was in answer to Trump during the debacle (debate), but I think his program goes a fair distance toward these proposals.
What he actually will propose is yet to be seen, but the greater danger is that the Democrats flake out on reducing or eliminating the filibuster and packing the Court. Unless they take these bold and controversial steps, I don't see how much of his program or vision can be realized. The Republicans would block it all in the Senate, and if they throw out the filibuster his legislation still would be contested in Trump's new Courts. The Democrats will have to be bolder and more radical than they are used to being if they are going to get anything done at all. Otherwise we are stuck in the same old stalemate that we have been stuck in for at least 40 years, bound to the Reagan neo-liberal philosophy.