Wednesday, January 8, 2020

Current Affairs: A Biden nomination means a 2nd term for Dump

Opinion piece from Paul Waters-Smith, and with which I agree. Biden is one of who speaks and acts centrist. I know that really gets me excited. Some excerpts:

"Democrats are desperate for a win, but desperation doesn’t usually lead to clear thinking."

"And, so far, we have seen some very troubling signs that a Joe Biden candidacy will fail to defeat Trump, delivering an increasingly craven Republican Party back into power for another four years at this crucial juncture in human history.[...] Any successful national campaign has a clear and compelling message.[...] So what is Joe Biden’s message?  Besides constantly reminding people that he was 'Obama’s sidekick' once, it seems to be the idea that Biden will return us to 'Normalcy and Respectability.' Biden’s recent ad made the seemingly ridiculous case that only Biden would return dignity and grandeur to the Oval Office. But this message is eerily similar to the one disastrously employed by the Clinton campaign in the closing months of the campaign in 2016. Endlessly focusing on Trump’s crass and crude demeanor, his 'ineligibility for the office,' Clinton failed to offer much of a hopeful vision for how she was going to change the country for the better at all. Hillary Clinton essentially ran as the candidate of the status quo, and lost in the states where it counts.  Joe Biden is doubling down on a similar strategy, one which fails to answer the basic questions of politics: What will you do for me? How will this make my life better?  (If years of organizing have taught me anything, it’s that if people don’t believe you’ll do something about the issues they are most upset about, they’re not going to show up when you need them.) A return to the status quo is hardly going to excite millions."

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