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52. Biden isn't the problem. He was/is a good man that the people kept electing

Last edited Fri May 16, 2025, 07:02 PM - Edit history (2)

The problem is that voters didn't believe Dems had any better leaders. You can't blame Biden for that. He gave many years of service to the country, with wisdom, patience, kindness, and mental stability.

He should not have been the candidate in 2020 or 2024, but evidently, he was the best we had. Don't blame Biden.

Americans have been extremely unhappy at least since 2005. Look at the Gallup poll of "right way, wrong way". Prior to 2025, it swung like a pendulum from 30% right way to 70% right way. And it wasn't always the same party with high "right way" marks.

But since 2025, it has never been anywhere near 50% right way, and has generally remained about 60-70% wrong way including when Obama and Biden were in the White House. Americans are angry as hell. They can't always say why, but they know this country is really fucked up. They don't know how or why, but they know it ain't right.

They absolutely hate the party of stern letters and "I told you so". They don't want compromises. They want fighters. And more than anything, they want a leader who will put forward a real plan of bold action.. I love Harris -- she was always my first choice. But she was in a box. With her short runway, she really didn't have time to sell a bold agenda, And if she tried, she would have faced the doubly whammy of undercutting Biden and being the angry black woman.

It was doomed.. Biden absolutely would have been destroyed. There was no viable fallback scenario -- Harris had to be the candidate. But she had no chance to define herself as a transformational figure. So she ran a milquetoast campaign -- executed to perfection -- absolutely not one blunder at any step of the way. But no ideas.

That's just the way it is. Here we are and we have no bold ideas. Trump has bold ideas. Tariffs will make us all rich, and we won't have to share the riches with the "illegals" because we're deporting all of them. That may be insane, but it is a bold plan, and Dems put absolutely no ideas up against that. Americans ALWAYS support the person with a bold plan and fire in the belly (even a crazy man with a crazy plan) when the alternative is no plan.

Biden had no bold ideas, but neither have any Dem candidates for 50 years. This is what the Carvilles of the world have given us for 50 years. When can we have a bold leader for our side?