mgershowitz wrote:
First of all, referring to President Joe Biden as ‘Brandon’ is highly disrespectful to the office as well as the man.
2nd, as a (former) lifelong Republican who just resigned from the party last year, at 64-years old I’m hardly a liberal or progressive based on any thinking person’s definition and eagerly supported (via contributions to the Lincoln Project) as well as v**ed for Biden b/c I felt the country desperately needed change and the prior administration either ignored or was just plain afraid to make the really hard decisions re: today’s most relevant topics, i.e.: taxes (we’re nearly $30-trillion in debt), Afghanistan (for how long and how much were we gonna continue to dump huge $’s and lives into a stalemate), C***d ** (thank the good Lord we now at least have v*****es albeit why these knuckleheads refuse to take them is just so baffling as well as infuriating).
Third, to answer Forkbassman’s well articulated very good question: of course Biden could’ve done some things better but with a quite sizable, very passionate minority of people desperate to see him fail I believe the obstacles being put in front of him are clearly not short-term handleable. If given time I expect much better but in the short run making certain our democracy work and truly governing via a fair and balanced majority in lieu of people desperately trying to rig the system would be extremely refreshing.
Last, albeit imperfect our e*******l system remains best in the world and as a society we must stop this utter nonsense and actually believe in something; otherwise all we’ll end up with is the utter chaos we saw at the Capital building on 1*6/21.
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