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SlimTrae , it is
my opinion that some of that fierce support is due to the lukewarm (at best) job Biden is presently doing as POTUS.
Interesting POV. Then again, each election leaves the successor with a mess worse than before. at some point the problems become too many for even a superstar. So when we got as you stated an older Biden....
Had a candidate defeated Trump and proceeded to wow the American people with true leadership on all fronts... Trump would have been reduced to an afterthought.
I have only 2 reasons this occurred. 1.Citizens united vs FEC. When they deemed money =freespeech, no great mind can be heard if they don't have millions to spend. #2. IMO as you stated the people may be more to blame, I agree. The people are hardened and they demand that you and I become as extremist left/right as they are, meaning no matter how great a plan is...the voters who are hellbent on liberalism/rightwingism will vote against their own welfare, health, economy- if the other party endorsed it.
I think of for example 1913 Banking Act. The right wanted to privatize the banking system again, but when the people balked at it. The left countered.
So Aldrich Act wanted to privatize banking and the Federal Reserve act likewise.
1980 Reagan wanted to bring in NAO North American Accord Act . In 1992 Bush Sr, we know wanted to bring in NAFTA- hard to see difference in the plan. so we went with Clinton a Democrat and got NAFTA, meaning it didnt matter the money barrons were backing both candidates with different names to the same bills.
Same again in 2008, either privatize healthcare via Romney or Obama.
Candidates who want whats best for the people will never be allowed to make it to the front, if so, we could manufacture great politicians like we do in every profession or trade.
Oh & both parties uniting to ensure there will NEVER be a 3rd party candidate allowed the way Ross Perot did. So they took over that system leaving us with highprofile, low morality candidates. Pushing the agenda of both committees DNC/RNC but doing so in the name of the people- in that regards, too hard to find a candidate to ignite the moderates on both sides.
Remember that many of those who voted Trump in 2016 actually flipped after becoming deeply disappointed/horrified at the person they had elected.
True.
These are what I call
thinking, conscientious Republicans. Nothing wrong with being Republican or Democrat in this country.
I agree!
What's wrong is being an extremist puppet... easily encouraged to storm Capitol buildings... believing every song and dance your candidate spouts out as "truth." Sometimes I think it's not even the politicians who have ruined the country.
It's the people themselves... because there seem to be more and more mindless puppets every day.
Spot on!

Trump caught lightning in a bottle in 2016, when Obama's terms had run out, and all the Dems could trot out there was a universally disliked and mistrusted Hillary Clinton.
Yeah, they were given a fumble picked it up and did a Jim Marshall of the Vikings and ran 55 yards to the wrong damn end zone.
After riding Obama's coattails on the economy for a couple of years and appealing to the darker side of the American public as skillfully as a snake oil salesman... he began sowing the seeds for the 2020 election MONTHS PRIOR, by saying the elections would be rigged. Anybody who didn't see that coming was either asleep or in a coma. So it was WIN-WIN even before the elections took place.
I got to give Rush Limbaugh some of that praise. he spent 30 years conditioning his audience to embrace the hate in their hearts. Trump tuned in & used it to his advantage.
Dems on the other hand, had FOUR years to come up with a good candidate to beat Trump's socks off in 2020. So what do they do?? They spend 3-1/2 of those 4 years
moaning and groaning about Trump.
I appeal to the President Washington outgoing address. The best I have read in my life.
“I have already intimated to you the danger of Parties in the State, with particular reference to the founding of them on Geographical discriminations. Let me now take a more comprehensive view and warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the Spirit of Party, generally.”
Political Parties IMO are the conduit in which the money barron control the people. We didnt need any in 1776. None in 1780..not until 1789? Federalists and then the next major party Jackon's Democrats. Money barrons wised up and began to endorse candidates on both sides, no way out IMO. Kill the party would have worked but the sickness of ideology is deeply embedded with them. IMO it's too late.
Then they hurriedly put this unwieldly mass of primary candidates together... and the process spits out Joe Biden.

A man who's even older than Trump and to be perfectly honest does not appear to have the physical and mental fortitude to last the full four years.
So sad, so true.
And how's Biden doing right now? Well... key issues like immigration and the handling of Afghanistan have been a mess. But don't just take my word for it. Look at ANY public opinion poll. I know there are anti-Trumpers here that will gladly swallow anything Biden does because frankly.....
HE'S NOT TRUMP. But I'm nothing if not realistic, and
all I see is Joe Biden keeping Trump relevant. Even worse than that... along with Trump, there is his forgettable cast of spineless, morality-challenged, worthless cohorts, like Graham and Cruz.
yes he is keeping him relevant. So, too are the many newsbroadcasts. I check out a few liberals on youtube like DavidPakman, Ring of Rire and TYT they make me so angry. Every friggin' day they say something about Donster. Why?
They keep him relevant, they refuse to talk politics. Each segment is about Trump or those siding with Trump or the anti-vaxxers. So if this is what the people have....he will no longer be relvant when USA follows same path to the history bin.
It's enough to make you want to puke.
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