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man4allcats

(4,026 posts)
Thu Mar 12, 2020, 06:51 AM Mar 2020

Thoughts on potential Democratic presidential candidates

http://smirkingchimp.com/thread/chris-floyd/89287/blowing-in-the-whirlwind-as-ye-sow-joe-shall-ye-reap

Chris Floyd in "The Smirking Chimp"

"There seems to be the feeling that we can’t really do anything at all about the problems that are bearing down on us like a runaway train – climate disruption and all its ever-rippling repercussions; the rise of hyper-powerful rich elites manipulating our increasingly hollowed-out institutions for their own benefit; the economic demise of industry after industry, region after region, community after community; the endless wars, covert and overt, with their gargantuan corruption and pointless cycles of violence; the healthcare atrocities that leave millions of people literally begging on the internet to obtain even the barest minimum of medical help, and so on. In the face of all this, many people long to embrace some figure or another who promises us a return to the “status quo”: either some mythologized post-war era when America was “great,” or just back to the Obama years, when things were “normal.”

Overwhelmed, battered, beset, anxiety-ridden, suffering, confused, many people don’t want to hear that hard work and big changes will be necessary if we are to have a chance for things to get better. They just want to latch on to something that will let them feel – if only for a moment – that the anxiety can go away, that someone up there in the circles of power will take care of it for us.

This is not the wisest course when faced with overwhelming crises – but it is an entirely natural and understandable one. When you couple this natural reaction to extremity with the aforementioned systematic effort to undermine and thwart the Sanders’ campaign, then it’s not surprising you end up with a blank screen like Joe Biden as your candidate.

And consider this: the blank screen of Donald Trump has now had four years in power, yet still those overwhelming, battering, confusing anxieties have not gone away – indeed, they’ve only multiplied. In this situation, it’s entirely possible, perhaps even likely, that enough people will turn away from the torn screen of Trump and try a new cure for their anxiety."
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
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Thoughts on potential Democratic presidential candidates (Original Post) man4allcats Mar 2020 OP
blank screen, sanders has nothing to show for all his years in congress except contempt beachbumbob Mar 2020 #1
a "blank screen like Joe Biden" lapfog_1 Mar 2020 #2
 

beachbumbob

(9,263 posts)
1. blank screen, sanders has nothing to show for all his years in congress except contempt
Thu Mar 12, 2020, 06:57 AM
Mar 2020

and no wonder true democratic voters are rejecting his hair-brained schemes and even the young voters are not coming out. Its tough to accept rejection and even harder for ideologues

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
 

lapfog_1

(29,166 posts)
2. a "blank screen like Joe Biden"
Thu Mar 12, 2020, 06:57 AM
Mar 2020

Happens to be the "blank screen" that is kicking your candidates ass from South Carolina to Michigan. Oops.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
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