Listening to Dr. Fauci on a pirated video of Rachel Maddow's interview with him, listening to him discussing the two-day old administration of the Covid-19 crisis and the implied comparison with Trump and the crooks year long botch, the rule of a spoiled 74 year old man child who the "adults in the room" couldn't make up for, it's clear that it's the difference of day and night when one of those adults in the room is the President of the United States.
People are marveling at the speed with which Joe Biden and his team are moving to fix things, to move things ahead to which I say, look at this list of recent presidents and consider a. their experience in DC politics and b. their devotion to the common good as opposed to private greed. Obama, Bush II, Bill Clinton, Bush I, Ronald Reagan Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford (maybe I should have included something about intelligence) Nixon, Lyndon Johnson (the man who moved democracy farther along than even FDR). Notice something in that list? Which two of those had a long period of a. experience in the governance of the country, b. devotion to the common good as opposed to private greed.
Among the idiotic ideas that became common on the left, as it did on the right that what was needed in the federal government was "outsiders" an idea which I may have once believed but stopped believing as I saw how the media and the corrupt part of Washington DC chewed up and spat out Jimmy Carter, probably the most decent men ever to have held that office, someone who in decency Biden is already beginning to remind me of. Carter and the people he brought with him from Georgia were no match for the gangsters of DC. Too many Democrats still bought the dumb idea that someone whose previous experience didn't include long time service in the Congress would be preferable to someone whose service was in state government and that got us the intellectually brilliant but unprepared Bill Clinton and the minimally DC experienced Barack Obama - who along with Carter may be two of the smartest men who have ever been president but who, at least in the case of Obama,had the bare minimum of experience in federal politics and it showed, badly.
The Trump regime should have killed, once and for all time that whopper of a lie that rich people loved to hear and to say, that what the country needed was a businessman as president. We had one and he almost destroyed the country, he may well if the Senate does not convict him and legal courts follow suit. The culture of business executives is not what you need in the presidency, if the Supreme Court was not constantly in the hands of Ivy League servants of money, MONEY WOULD BE REDUCED TO THE BARE MINIMUM IN OUR ELECTORAL POLITICS. If there are two things that I hope are kept from now on from this terrible plague year it is 1. a virtual political convention, 2. a virtual inaguration THAT CAN BE A SHARED EXPERIENCE FOR THE ENTIRE COUNTRY. Keeping the kind of corruption that raising money for the traditional forms of those and other aspects of politics out of politics is a vitally important thing.
It is so important to our politics that a third thing I hope is kept and expanded and made universal and typical it is voting on paper ballots through the U.S. Mail. It is one thing I hope and pray the Democrats do while they have control, that the repair the attack on the US Postal Service done by Republicans at the behest of private corporations. I want the Postal Service restored and its funding made strong and secure enough that maybe people will use it in preference to the corporations that tried to have it destroyed.
I also hope Louis DeJoy and his helpers are investigated, prosecuted and imprisoned for using an attack on the Postal Sevice to rig the election for Trump.
Yup. All of the above.
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