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Originally Posted by rubecube
I want people to hold him accountable for who he has been and how he's contributed to the mess that is the current political landscape. I want people to vote for him, but go into his administration with their eyes open and hold his feet to the fire as soon as he starts falling back on old habits.
My worry is that people continue to see Trump as the disease and not the symptom of greater issues, to which Biden has been a tremendous contributor to. This is exemplified by the revisionist history of the Bush administration (and embrace of neocon shills) who caused far more catastrophic damage than Trump has.
Yes, it'll be nice to have a president who doesn't say the quiet parts loud, but this whole "return to normal" ideation really ignores the fact that the "normal" of 2008 - 2016 was still really ####ty for millions of people and we need someone to do better than normal if we want to avoid 4-8 years of even more extreme (and probably more competent) fascism in 2024 or 2028.
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When you have cancer, it's sort of irrelevant how may cigarettes you smoked over the past 40 years...you need to start chemo. You focus on the problem at hand, which is also the one that can be fixed.
Nobody can go back and undo the subpar education Trumpsters grew up with and the toxic ideaolgies that led to him being a compelling candidate for his supporters. The only thing that can be done is to vote him out. Once in power, democrats can begin to address the problems that have led to the right pushing further right and governing poorly. If the right stays in power, everything goes further toward flawed ideaolgies.