MUCH AS I RESPECT the post-presidency of Jimmy Carter and even his sand-bagged presidency, in retrospect, I don't think any Democratic president since Lyndon Johnson's attempt to outdo FDR in creating equal justice (whose greatness was overshadowed by Vietnam) has been as satisfactory to me as Joe Biden has.
If Joe Biden had a real Democratic majority in the Senate for the past year and a half he would have taken up the ball that has been lying motionless on the court since Johnson left office and played it. I think the attempt of the DC-NYC-cabloid servants of billionaire fascism to sink him over the hard, fraught and entirely correct decision to fulfill the commitment MADE UNDER TRUMP! to end American fighting in Afghanistan can stand in as an example of what Lyndon Johnson knew he would face if he ended American involvement in Vietnam, the real reason that he got caught up in the Harvard boy's war that he inherited.
If Biden gets a real Democratic Senate this fall and retains a Democratic House, I think he may prove to be a great president against all expectations and against all the lies and discrediting of the media and the pundit class. See post below about as it concerns "wisdom."
I think that the greatest part of Lyndon Johnson's program of equal justice was in terms of an attempt at economic justice, his Great Society programs, in that I think that his fellow non-Ivy product, Joe Biden, understands things a lot better than the Ivy Leaguers, Clinton and Obama. In the whining about the great student-debt relief a lot of the idiots online and on the media don't seem to understand that a lot of "plumbers" either had or have student loan debt themselves or they have kids do and that THEY ARE ON THE LINE WHEN THE KID'S CAN'T KEEP UP WITH THEIR DEBTS. If Democrats want to win they will directly appeal to parents and young people who have student debt because there are a hell of a lot more of them than there are pundits and seven figure cabloid talking heads.
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