Have you read the 2025 plan? When oxygen is required on an airplane, there is a good reason to put your own mask on before putting the oxygen mask on your children.
Imperfect as it is, our democratic republic is currently the only realistic political option we have for dealing with horrible moral dilemmas facing this country. A Trump victory is a victory nihilistic chaos and authoritarian aspirations. At least with Biden we have a leader, however imperfect, professes to believe in the US Constitution and rule of law. With Biden a political mechanism would exist by which to make moral improvement. With Trump there is not even the recognition of moral improvement.
One may want to argue that the probability of moral improvement under Biden is very small. But very small is greater than zero.
Like you, Gloria, I will pursue the option that best ensures Trump not winning. And I think Biden is that option.
In 1968, many Democrats said they could not bring themselves to vote for Humphrey because he was morally compromised. Nixon won. Now look at our situation. If that is "humanity surviving" I'm not impressed.
I don't see any leader in Biden unless you are talking of the leading politician accepting Jewish lobby's bribes (over US$4'400.000 so far) and yes, "he professes to believe in the US Constitution and rule of law" just like any other politician, but he forgets that our laws prohibit to sell guns or give any help to terrorist's organizations like Israel. Would have been Humphrey better than Nixon? Has been Biden better than Trump? What I have observed is that our country has been in an increasing decline since the 1980 no matter which party has been in power because we all know we are under a corporate dictatorship. I got tired of this game and for a long time I have been voting only for third parties to protest the status quo.
I cannot say with any kind of certainty that Humphrey would have been better than Nixon, but my sense at the time based upon his support of civil rights was a large part of my reason to support him.
I do believe that Biden as you point out has many short-comings. But I do not believe another four years of his being president will usher in an authoritarian regime. I believe Trump's would.
Do I wish there were other alternatives for president that I considered viable -- read "electable"? Yes.
I have no illusions about what my approach will produce. At best, it is stop-gap. I appreciate your disgust with the continuing decay or our politics.
Something really different has to happen to give us a real choice. I wish I had something unique to offer, but I don't.
For my part I chose not to participate in the decay, and from my selfish point of view, to avoid being repented and ashamed to have casted my vote as I was in the past on several occasions.
If Muh Democratic Republic (don't make me laugh!) gives us a choice between Biden and Trump then perhaps it is best to toss it aside if that is the best it can do.
I think you are a confused person, mistaking a regulative ideal for a constitutive ideal, when you are not making ad hominem comments. I do not take your comments seriously.
Even if that were true, even of i should be encouraging and nice to people as they twist themselves into knots trying to rationalize support for a genocidaire, that's not an ad hominem.
Another rationalization to justify voting for an open genocide.
Own it.
Have you read the 2025 plan? When oxygen is required on an airplane, there is a good reason to put your own mask on before putting the oxygen mask on your children.
We heard the same hysteria in 2016. Somehow, humanity survived.
Imperfect as it is, our democratic republic is currently the only realistic political option we have for dealing with horrible moral dilemmas facing this country. A Trump victory is a victory nihilistic chaos and authoritarian aspirations. At least with Biden we have a leader, however imperfect, professes to believe in the US Constitution and rule of law. With Biden a political mechanism would exist by which to make moral improvement. With Trump there is not even the recognition of moral improvement.
One may want to argue that the probability of moral improvement under Biden is very small. But very small is greater than zero.
Like you, Gloria, I will pursue the option that best ensures Trump not winning. And I think Biden is that option.
In 1968, many Democrats said they could not bring themselves to vote for Humphrey because he was morally compromised. Nixon won. Now look at our situation. If that is "humanity surviving" I'm not impressed.
I don't see any leader in Biden unless you are talking of the leading politician accepting Jewish lobby's bribes (over US$4'400.000 so far) and yes, "he professes to believe in the US Constitution and rule of law" just like any other politician, but he forgets that our laws prohibit to sell guns or give any help to terrorist's organizations like Israel. Would have been Humphrey better than Nixon? Has been Biden better than Trump? What I have observed is that our country has been in an increasing decline since the 1980 no matter which party has been in power because we all know we are under a corporate dictatorship. I got tired of this game and for a long time I have been voting only for third parties to protest the status quo.
I cannot say with any kind of certainty that Humphrey would have been better than Nixon, but my sense at the time based upon his support of civil rights was a large part of my reason to support him.
I do believe that Biden as you point out has many short-comings. But I do not believe another four years of his being president will usher in an authoritarian regime. I believe Trump's would.
Do I wish there were other alternatives for president that I considered viable -- read "electable"? Yes.
I have no illusions about what my approach will produce. At best, it is stop-gap. I appreciate your disgust with the continuing decay or our politics.
Something really different has to happen to give us a real choice. I wish I had something unique to offer, but I don't.
Best.
For my part I chose not to participate in the decay, and from my selfish point of view, to avoid being repented and ashamed to have casted my vote as I was in the past on several occasions.
Best.
If Muh Democratic Republic (don't make me laugh!) gives us a choice between Biden and Trump then perhaps it is best to toss it aside if that is the best it can do.
"By their fruits ye shall know them."
I think you are a confused person, mistaking a regulative ideal for a constitutive ideal, when you are not making ad hominem comments. I do not take your comments seriously.
Oh dear, John doesn't take my comments seriously. Whatever shall I do?
I am saying that if this is what the system belches up, then maybe we need a different system.
Anyway, I haven't made a single ad hominem.
Tell yourself that you have not committed an ad hominem. Your tone, which is contemptuous and patronizing, says it all.
Even if that were true, even of i should be encouraging and nice to people as they twist themselves into knots trying to rationalize support for a genocidaire, that's not an ad hominem.