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  • Ugh, I read this so you don't have to. You're welcome. šŸ˜“

    The first half seemed to be about how the focus on the "Culture War" is now replaced by hatred for Israel, since people can only handle one thing at a time.

    I feel dumber for reading that part of the article, but the second half has the real meat of the article.

    As for the racial reckoning of the last decade, it missed Joe Biden. He couldnā€™t stop talking in cringe-inducing racial clichĆ©s about the black United States president in whose administration he served. He may employ and empower some radical ideas through his policies and his administration, and for that, Republicans will try to hold him to account. But it will be in vain.

    It is very difficult to associate Biden with that radicalism when it is so evident that the last racial-attitudes software update was uploaded to his brain in a 1970s Knights of Columbus cookout. Biden still talks in the racial and ethnic clichĆ©s of an America where his voters had little portraits of JFK and John XXIII hanging above their kitchen tables. The Irish are known for whiskey and hating the English. And Italians for pasta and organized crime. And itā€™s great in Joe Bidenā€™s America when so many black people are ā€œcleanā€ and ā€œarticulate,ā€ and you put on ā€œa slight Indian accentā€ to go into 7-Eleven or Dunkinā€™ Donuts.

    Biden is a man out of his time. That may hurt him among the most progressive voters. But itā€™s going to reassure the vast majority of Americans. He may be losing his mind, but his character and prejudices are still recognizably loyal to this nation, its institutions, and its traditional allies.

    So as "woke" as Sleepy Joe goes, he's still racist uncle enough to not alienate the 80% off people that aren't "radical leftists" and the 20% that are won't be swayed to not vote for Joe because the sensible Republicans can't build a strong argument around his weak, fake "wokeness."

    Or something like that. I could only force my brain to absorb so much of that.

    • Many of us have not forgotton what bills he helped push against the black community and many other things.

      But this is just the activists that have skin in the streets, others may just vote due to "not Trump".

      I am hoping for more turnout for left leaning 3rd Party candidates, so as to beat the Libertarian Party numbers, at least.

      • There is plenty to rightly criticize Biden for over his very long tenure, which it seems the writer of the article couldn't be bothered with. Maybe he should listen to some of those leftist talking points...

        I'd love a party left of the current Dem majority. I'm only registered Dem so I can vote for the actual leftists in my state's primary, otherwise I have zero say.

        I feel Biden and Co have done enough good these last few years that I don't feel horrible about the chance for him to continue another 4 years, and I hope he improves some of the things he's doing for sure, but "not Trump" is pretty crucial right now to me.

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