Democratic Primaries
In reply to the discussion: Pete: "Normalcy" got us where we are today. [View all]marylandblue
(12,344 posts)The Nazis have tasted power and they are radicalizing each other over the Internet faster than we can stop them.
America, unfortunately, is a permanent laughingstock. We were dumb enough to elect Bush, but that could have been an aberration. Then we doubled down on stupidity with Trump. Trump is no accident. There is something deeply wrong, here. We were living an illusion in 2015, at least some of us were. Open your eyes and recognize that Trump is a symptom.of a problem we don't know existed.
Return to the rule of law. Another illusion. It was already under serious assault in the Obama administration. And Bush before that. The old norms that governed our politics are irretreivably broken. Trump has shown that a President can get away with anything as long as his party and his base backs him. I can easily imagine how the next Trump will operate if we don't make a fundamental political shift to change it. The only shift capable of doing that is a new alliance of left and center, much broader than the Obama alliance. We need to pick up the disaffected moderates who really were in hell in 2015.
My career has taken me to some of the crappiest places in this country, both urban and rural. Places everyone else speeds by on their way to somewhere else. But people live there, and some of those places do look like hell. Poverty, particularly rural poverty, is often hidden. We ignored their suffering in 2016 and we are in danger of doing it again.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden