Nah. The “I’m not racist and I’ll prove it” crowd operates on tokens, and we already have Obama in the White House pantheon.
The “anything but white” contingency is actually tiny, though loud.
Usually people heavily opposed to Trump are parroting viral clips taken out of context and have bought in to an establishment media blitz designed around character assassination. If only people would research and think for themselves.
The people heavily opposed to Trump are the exact same people who were heavily opposed to Romney, McCain, George W. Bush, George H.W. Bush, and Reagan—-pure Party folks.
As a moderate Democrat our issue is we have no new wave of “youth” that gets the people excited and our base is really unidentified opposed to the right wing who know who they placate to. We need a true person who is
SOCIALLY LIBERAL, FISCALLY CONSERVATIVE
I honest-to-God might prefer almost anyone over the current two.
In fact, I spent time weeks ago with a colleague going over the patients I work with (behavioral health) who I would NOT prefer, and only came up with one that would not win HANDS DOWN my own personal presidential race. She’s a rigid and difficult autistic cat woman who is pretty old - but hey, not as old as B or T! I adore her, but there would be trouble day one with the staff and that would take years to untangle, which would mean she’d be unavailable to run the country. Which also might not be much change, given the deficits on display for the last 8 years.
So depressing. Three hundred and thirty five million people in the US - what is the problem supplying a competent candidate? Well, aside from the blazing corruption. Like, don’t the two parties even need to make a pretense of caring about the people anymore?
There’s an elephant-sized difference between the two.
Like him or not, Trump is getting his nomination after defeating a bunch (including 2 very strong ones in DeSantis and Haley) of other candidates in open primaries. This is actual Democracy in practice (I know, the US is a republic blah, blah, ok)
Biden is getting his “nomination” because all other candidates were essentially shut out of competing in the primaries, and that’s if primaries were held at all. Even in 2020, Sanders was the strongest nominee, but the “democratic” powers that be all got together, convinced the other candidates to drop out so that all those votes would go to Biden (after the requisite payoffs were doled out to the respective candidates); James Clyburn delivered South Carolina for Biden for Biden’s first big primary win, and Bernie basically ceded to Biden because Bernie is at heart a hypocrite who can be bought. Bernie of 2020 would’ve been the Trump from 2016, except the Republicans did not have a corrupt enough, and powerful enough machine to coalesce all the non-Trump votes behind an anointed candidate.
That’s the truly ironic part of this for me as well. There’s never been a more outsider politician so successful, and his success comes from being quite unlike all of the politicians that have been squandering away our treasure, our people and our institutions for well over 60 years now.
The “lets all get along” politics are gone where I live, not likely to return for some period, thankfully. “Playing nice” where I live means voting the way Democrats want so they don’t have to mobilize hundreds and hundreds of unvetted migrants. This is done by somehow motivating them through a translator to go to the polling location, providing them transportation, walking them through our instant voter registration requiring no ID whatsoever and then, somehow, they all manage to vote the right way. I saw it with my own eyes last Tuesday in Maine’s 2nd largest city. It was nothing short of brazen.
I have no doubt that my public comments on the situation were perceived as racist and hateful by people who want to keep the human pipeline to my town as open as possible, to the great detriment of everyone who lives in my city, which has always been a city of immigrants.
It’s the greed of need, brought to us by non-profiteers and the rainbows and unicorn crowd, enabled by slowly but surely alienating or displacing everyone who would ever object to the agenda until the scales are completely tipped in your favor with an openly rigged system.
And Obama did relatively little for minorities. Why? Because it’s all about class. Bigger than gender or sexuality. Even more important than race is class.
But point taken about white folks. Most of whom are indoctrinated to the point where they have no understanding. Cultural issues are what the majority worry about. It is the main difference between the Dems and Reps. Not the more important economic issues. What the elite worry about the most is the lower classes coming together. If this happens, they may find out who is screwing them over and the shit could hit the fan.
