06-05-2020, 11:08 PM
(06-05-2020, 08:04 PM)Anteros Wrote: Trump is a bumbling idiot. Biden is a senile bumbling idiot that people will only vote for because he's not Trump. I don't see any millennials or zoomers rallying behind either of them. Closest we have is Bernie but even he took a bit of a hit with his reputation when he decided to endorse Clinton and Biden instead of sticking to his initial ideals.
Trump is not only a bumbling idiot but also a dullard too limited in his learning to recognize how out of touch with reality he is. He exemplifies Idealist vices (selfishness, arrogance, and fanaticism) with none of the virtues (culture, morality, and historical perspective). Biden at least has one of the hallmarks of an old-timer who might be successful as a politician in the role of Grey Champion: a long record of public service in executive office.
Know well that if one looks solely at qualifications for high office for diversity of experience, the optimal President would have been James Buchanan (cough, cough!).
Younger voters are strongly D -- in fact, about 60-to-40 D. Contrast other generations, at least from middle-to-early cohorts of X, Boomers, and surviving Silent and one sees that those groups are about 5% more Republican than Democratic. All that has allowed Republicans to win the elections that give them the Presidency and majorities in one or both Houses of Congress is the low participation of the Millennial generation after the GI Generation faded out of existence. The Millennial generation at its oldest is approaching middle age, and by then it knows enough to not let the perfect become the enemy of the good.
Get the Millennial Generation voting in large numbers, even if only out of contempt for Donald Trump, who is not the sort of Idealist to whom a Civic generation could relate, and the current GOP will lose badly. The GOP will lose badly until it cleans up its act, which could take some time.
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.