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Which Way America?
Another election referendum on the country’s future looms
The majority of people don’t want Joe Biden for a second term or Donald Trump for a return term. But, they are likely to get millions of votes anyway. What are we to do? How did we get such a system?
Well, we don’t elect the President by popular vote so really, this is not a surprise. The electoral college, a relic of American racism, elects the President. We probably should be in the streets every day all day until they change it. If only.
On the other hand, collectively, American voters are complacent. Relaxed. Concerned with paying bills, keeping their children safe at schools, receiving adequate medical care, but eating unhealthy food all day every day. Is the Starbucks open? Pilates, Yoga, Fan Duel, there are a lot of distractions and escapes in America.
Yet, one of these fading geezers will win unless they both die or something similar happens. Biden will be in office and will be that steady hand of experience and conservative imperial foreign policy which millions of Americans detest. He will sprinkle a few dollars of domestic policy goodies around to keep the hard core liberals and their institutions happy but he can’t really do anything unless an emergency occurs.
Trump? No one knows. He promises mass deportations of all of the illegal people currently working in the U.S. illegally. He promises to prosecute Biden for prosecuting him even though Biden has no control over any of that and neither does Trump (The President does not run the U.S. Department of Justice contrary to his authoritarian proclivities). He has also mentioned not filling positions, defunding whole federal departments, and firing thousands of federal workers.
The Biden option is the better option than Trump but Biden has done a terrible job of making himself seem different and really, on a lot of policies he is not different. He is making the same mistake Hillary Clinton made in 2016. He is not differentiating himself from the Grifter.
He supported and supports Israel unconditionally. He has stayed in this position even as it threatens…
