07-02-2020, 01:52 PM
(07-02-2020, 10:24 AM)Isoko Wrote: Pbrower,
Personally I do not think that Biden should even be running. That itself is corrupt. A new poll has even confirmed that 30 percent of Democrats thinks he has potential dementia. I think that actually is quite insulting to people to have to vote for a mentally failing old man over Trump.
Just saying "well his physicians will sort it out/the vice president can take over" is actually endorsing corruption. Reagan himself was mentally competent on both elections and only started to slip during his last years of office, which fair point Bush took over many responsibilities and that is a fair point.
But Biden - we all know he is slipping from day one so to go and vote for him with a straight face is just....yeah. Personally I think it's more an election of his potential VP rather then Biden.
The whole Biden thing is a joke.
Trump is worse -- far worse. Trump is cruel, stubborn, despotic, and completely lacking in self-awareness.
We got away with Ronald Reagan because
(1) Reagan had competent people around him that he and we could trust
(2) others were formulating the policy
(3) Reagan knew that he was deteriorating and could see his role in the Presidency reduced to a ceremonial role as the best circumstance possible under the conditions
(4) Reagan had a good VP who, although a master of underhanded behavior (George Herbert Walker Bush had been director of the CIA) but generally did nothing dirty to Americans
(5) Reagan was aware of his medical and mental situation, and accepted the consequences.
(6) Reagan respected experts more knowledgeable than he on specific matters
(7) Reagan did not surround himself so completely with fanatics and cut-throats
(8) Reagan had some humility -- contrast the extreme narcissist that Trump is.
The worst that I can imagine with a Biden Presidency is a liberal version of Ronald Reagan. -- and not a liberal version of Donald Trump, which could be as horrid. I expect Obama people to be running things, and in view of how the Obama Presidency went, that is more promising than the Nixon people around Reagan.
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.