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Should the Dem seriously consider another candidate?
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Hi everyone from Europe!

I might be wrong because I am from the other side of the Pond, but from here it looks like Joe Biden is showing some really worrying signs in terms of a possible dementia onset (one can't diagnose someone from video snippets, however). I don't think that will help the Democrats win in November nor that it's good to have a President with cognitive decline...

I have read that changing candidate might be risky. I am also convinced that the MAGA fanatics will spin this even before they are fed their talking points. But can Trump win with only these people? I don't think so. So how will Centrist voters react? If the Dems explain that they are forced to make a risky choice for the good of the country, it might actually look good to the Centrists, no? And since it was against their plans, the exact choice of a candidate might matter slightly less?

What do you think?

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Roe was always going to be overturned after Trump put 3 conservative judges on the court for that exact reason. Itā€™s the reason why Biden is against executive action. The Supreme Court is the highest court in our land and if they disagree with legislation, there is nothing that can be done. Thats just a ridiculous statement. I also never said I was completely happy with the job he has done, but in my opinion, he is far superior to Trump.

The tax cuts largely benefit the top 1%, year after year. I would argue that the middle and poor classes have seen little, if any, benefit from those cuts. The argument could also be made that the decentralization on things like Covid is the reason our response to it was so terrible. And the deregulation is exactly whatā€™s harming the environment. He defunded and defanged the EPA, and then signed legislation on waste dumping from major corporations saying ā€œmy friends have been complaining about thisā€.

More broadly, Trump does not care for anyone but himself. He cares about people that like him, until they are no longer useful to him. I will back a president who tries to do right by as many Americans as possible 100% of the time over a man whoā€™s running a campaign based on grievance politics that has zero policy plans and is clearly running to stay out of jail. I want a president who wants to protect people who donā€™t like him, because thatā€™s what a leader does. Trump is not a leader

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I will agree that just simply printing more money does cause inflation, and the Fedā€™s usual go to to combat inflation is either that or raising interest rates. But you also realize that the president has virtually no control over the Federal Reserve. Heā€™s responsible for nominating board members, but outside of that has no say in how the Federal Reserve operates.

And yes, debt spending contributes as well. But contributing to the national debt for things like the infrastructure package are worthwhile to me. The national debt has also gone down under Biden, where it rose under the previous administration. And then when you factor in things like the PPP loans under Trump, the spending argument falls apart in my mind. That was a disaster of epic proportions, where as much as 80% of the loans went to big corporations and very little of it went to companies that actually needed it.

Overall, I think Biden has done better than expected, making the best out of a shitty situation. Trump had his turn as commander in chief, and demonstrated how selfish of a man he is, and I canā€™t think of a single piece of legislation that he passed that actually benefited Americans.

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You are the one being intellectually dishonest. Switzerland had a much better, faster and more strict approach to Covid 19. The president here spent months denying it was even real, called it a hoax countless times, then railed against vaccines. Not to mention, Switzerland has universal healthcare so people didnā€™t have any issues going to the hospital if they got sick, and thus lost less lives, which didnā€™t completely wreck their economy like it did here. Do some research before you start comparing two completely different incomes like this. There are FUNDAMENTAL differences between economies like Switzerland and the US.

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Youā€™re basing your POV on McDonalds pricing? Seriously? Inflation is rampant all over the world, not just in the US. I would argue the president doesnā€™t have as much control over the world market as you want to think they do. That being said, inflation has slowed. Itā€™s not where it used to be, but again, thatā€™s due to supply chain issues that exist all over the world. Donā€™t be obtuse

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The problem is Bidenā€™s presidency over the last 3 years has largely been a success (see the infrastructure bill, the American rescue plan, inflation slowing, lowest unemployment numbers in 50 years, the chips act, pulling out of Afghanistan, I could go onā€¦). He has done as much bipartisan work as possible given the circumstances. Over all, presidents are a figurehead to a team of people who get shit done. Even if Biden and Trump both had dementia (Trump shows signs of dementia, Biden shows signs of aging) Iā€™d take Bidenā€™s team over Trumps any day of the week. Trumps presidency was a disaster, and heā€™s talking about things that sound worse than his first go around. And Biden already beat Trump once. To be frank, when Biden talks, I believe he truly cares about the American people. I believe that he is honestly trying to make things better for his people. Listening to Trump talk for more than two seconds, itā€™s clear to me that heā€™s running for himself. To stay out of jail and to enrich himself. Heā€™s a deeply selfish man who will lie and cheat his way into power again because itā€™s his only ā€œpossibleā€ way out of the mess he is in.

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