I have refrained from posting at this time because we’re in a period where critical thinking is at a loss. I read all these opinion pieces and polls about Biden being ‘too old’. News entities are telling us that voters don’t have much faith in the ability of the Biden administration to win them over in 2024.
Think about this point. The mainstream news media, which is controlled by the wealth class in this capitalistic society, is telling us that we need new blood in the Democratic Party. But they work to make the half-sane, often non-lucid, ego-maniac multi-indicted Donald Trump, acceptable for re-election, though he is only 3 years younger than Biden.
Biden has had a highly successful Presidency while Trump, by any objective measure, was a failure. The media tells us Democrats need to bring in new blood, while Republicans are expanding on the Reagan troupe of bringing in the conservative religious right to use culture wars to distract us from the reality of failed conservative religious-based political policies and politicians like the White Nationalists MTG, and the new House Speaker ‘If You What to Know Me, Read the Bible’ Mike Johnson.
New blood on the Democratic side, waiting in the wings are the likes of Kamala Harris, Hakeem Jefferies, Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer, California Governor Gavin Newsom, California Congressman Ro Kahnna, and there are many more waiting to receive the baton after the 2024 election. Let’s face it, Bernie failed, Elizabeth Warren failed, because they also dwell in the age grouping of Biden and Trump.
Here is a realization about the ‘Biden is too old narrative’. It sounds as if it is being used against Biden. Only Republican Presidential candidate Nikki Haley, a brown-skinned woman, has the pedigree to speak plainly about the real target of the comment. The threat to Republicans is Kamala Harris. The real target of the Biden is too old line of attack is VP Harris.
The real target is a political and religious victim of misogyny and racism should she run for President in 2028. Who is telling us that Kamala is deeply unpopular? Primarily, religious white males. But there will be plenty of women, Black, White, Latino, and Asian, along with Black males who profess a deep faith in their Christianity, who will also express staunch offensive reactionary but baseless dislike for VP Harris.
I find it intriguing that Nikki Haley, a woman of East Indian descent, who has spoken out against both her political opponents of Indian ancestry in disparaging ways, ignores the total disqualifying conduct and policies of DJT and Ron DeSantis. She has clearly made herself a useful idiot of the racist White Nationalist crowd, by claiming she is a Republican. But that party has no intention of making her or any other Brown-skinned candidate, much less a child of immigrants, their Presidential standard bearer.
VP Harris, is an important partner for Biden. He works with her in many ways the same way Obama worked with him as VP. But VPs do not get out in front of their Presidents in most cases. I will concede that Biden did force Obama’s hand on ‘Marriage Equality’. That turned out to be a positive development. That move proved important to inspiring the engagement and turnout of younger voters in recent election cycles.
Let’s look at the mainstream media’s obsession with polling and personality perceptions. They tell us that Biden is too old, But ask yourself, between Biden and DJT which one looks overweight and out of shape? Which one rambles and can not put a coherent sentence together? Which one sounds like a whiny yapping Chihuahua? Which one accepts the consequences of his actions while the other blames everyone else if his actions elicit consequences, like 4 indictments and 91 criminal charges?
At this point in 2019, going into the 2020 election, no one imagined that Joe Biden could be elected to office. He certainly wasn’t polling well. He was in his basement trying to avoid contracting Covid-19. At this point in 2021, polls were predicting a ‘Red Wave’ where MAGA Republicans were going to win everything by huge margins.
None of those things happened. This whole narrative about people wanting someone different as the Democratic nominee is foolish. Name the person you feel is ready right this moment to assume the mantle of being a stable pragmatic leader. Who is it? You think Marianne Williamson is that person? How about Cornel West? What about Joe Manchin, the guy who voted with Republicans against the Child Tax, which lifted millions of families with children out of poverty. He is also the guy, along with Kirsten Sinema, who would not vote to eliminate the Senate Filibuster to enact the John Lewis Voting Rights act. This would have fixed the gerrymandering problem for federal elections in ‘Red States’.
Trump and White Christian Nationalists, are now telling us, that if he is elected again, they will strip the US Government of any semblance of Democracy. They will work to make the Constitution worthless (I get that many people will say that it already is worthless). These folks will be out to enact a certain level of authoritarian oligarchy where only the Corporate elite, the Fundamentalist Christian Church, and Trump will make the rules.
Let me make one last point. I told several friends of mine in 2019, who were embracing Steve Schmidt because MSNBC hired him as an analyst, to beware. This is the guy who convinced John McCain to make Sarah Palin his VP choice in 2008. If we never had Palin, we would have never had Trump. Now Schmidt is managing the campaign of the Democrat from Minnesota, Dean Phillips, who is challenging Biden for the nomination. I am less concerned about Phillips than I am about his choice to make Schmidt, with his demonstrated bad political judgement, his campaign manager.
Be on the skeptical side of the ‘No Labels’ Party. Though they may have a few Black faces out front, they are funded by Republican dark money donors. That cannot be a good thing. There is so much at stake going into these next elections. Democrats need to win The White House, the House of Representatives and the Senate. They need to be able to build a firewall for democracy for the next generations.
Don’t buy into the media’s need to sell advertising. Study the real issues and vote for the quality of equality your kids and grandkids will have in the future. Understand that Christianity, as White Christian Nationalists view it will not accept power sharing with minorities
A Reasonable Point of View 