Democratic Primaries
Related: About this forumJoe Biden and the Party of Davos
As a pillar of the ancien régime, Biden is ill-placed to overturn Trumps revolution.Roger Cohen
I dont think Trump is an aberration. On the contrary, hes the face, however duplicitous, of a revolution against the Party of Davos, the network of elites whose economic and cultural prescriptions came to be seen by myriad voters across the United States and Europe as camouflage for a self-serving heist.
...For all his Scranton blue-collar beginnings, Biden will be pilloried as a faithful servant of the Party of Davos that secured impunity for the financiers behind the 2008 meltdown, a heady growth in inequality, China appeasement and the arrogance of money-wooed Democrats estranged from their working-class constituency. Unfiltered politics, technologys dubious gift, will hurt him. These politics prize agility more than honor. The world has moved on. Whither Im not sure, but it has. Things shift. Thats the way of the world inexorable as biology.
...One of the most significant exchanges so far of the fight for the 2020 Democratic nomination came in the last few days when Biden said of China: I mean, you know, theyre not bad folks, folks. But guess what? Theyre not competition for us. To which Bernie Sanders shot back that the United States had lost three million manufacturing jobs to the 2000 China trade deal. Its wrong, he tweeted, to pretend that China isnt one of our major economic competitors.
Not only economic, I would add. China is set on an implacable course to run the world in the second half of this century. If that is not precisely what you want for your children, thinking that theyre not competition for us is precisely the wrong place to start. Its lazy thinking and laziness has hurt the liberal center a lot over the past decade.
More at https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/03/opinion/joe-biden.html
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
Loki Liesmith
(4,602 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
watoos
(7,142 posts)when it was all fun and games to bash Bernie and Tulsi. I said that none of our candidates are perfect, that they will all get bashed, and this is just coming from Democrats.
Just wait 6 months until our front runner gets a hole in his/her tongue, falls and ends up with brain damage, only has 6 months to live, runs a pedophile ring out of the basement of a pizza joint that doesn't have a basement, murders someone.
The Democrats bashing other Democrats is just the warm up act, the introduction to Act I. Just wait until Republicans and Russians start bashing our candidates, they will show Democrats how it's done.
Want to know how trump really beat Hillary?
1. He got his base to show up and vote.
2. he got Democrats to stay home and not vote.
Trump can get reelected with only his base voting for him if Democrats stay on the couch. If Democrats vote, Trump loses.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
abqtommy
(14,118 posts)a corrupted election process did that. Hillary was the winner of the popular vote by a count of 3 million.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
JudyM
(29,294 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
abqtommy
(14,118 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
JudyM
(29,294 posts)about that.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
TwilightZone
(25,525 posts)one should think about reevaluating one's decision-making process.
What's said here is meaningless. Vote or don't vote, but understand that basing a decision on what random strangers say on the internet - some of whom are intentional disruptors, by the way - is misguided, at best.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden