Democratic Primaries
In reply to the discussion: Can we at least admit he misspoke? [View all]Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)There are just a number of posts, each apparently being posted after the poster has seen or read something, so the post picks up with his argument for or against some unidentified statement or behavior by Biden. It's confusing, because htey are not always referring to the same thing.
Anyway, I think too much is being made of this segregationist thing. It is just a fact that there were days in the past where the two sides worked with each other in order to pass legislation. It was done by everyone who was successful at gettng things passed. Republicans and Democrats alike.
Biden has solid cred as far as civil rights and racism go. So there's no chance that he was even silently sympathetic with, or inadvertently helped, the racists in their goals.
BUT...as a moderate who has agreed with Biden in the past about working across the aisle (governing requires that; it's not a choice), I now have a different view. BECAUSE TIMES AND THE PARTIES HAVE CHANGED. We no longer have a Republican Party that is even nominally ethical or has any desire of working with the Democrats. They have supported shocking, anti-American policies, have run a fake "investigation" in the House (headed by Trump loyalist Devin Nunes), etc.
We're not in Kansas, anymore, Joe.
I think he's stuck in a time warp and hasn't been fully aware of all that has gone on in the last several years. Maybe it's because h was in mourning for his son. Maybe because he was relieved to be free of politics for a while, after being in it for so long. Who knows?
But to "work with" and be "unified" with the likes of McConnell (a Biden friend, no less) and Nunes, would require the Democrats to give up much, IMO. In desperation for a deal, I fear Biden may give up the pantry so he can get a pound of sugar.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided