You say Biden is better at listening to counsel, but he has to be. At this stage it is cognitivity he does not seem capable of doing anything without counsel even answering the simplest questions like how many grandchildren he has. If you watch some of these public appearances if he can't answer personal questions such as that how can we trust that he could make any decisions for a nation without being told what to say and do? That's just the reality of it and people knew that before he was elected that he would be used more than we lied on.Dan Z wrote: ↑Mon May 08, 2023 1:16 pmI do as well Mike. However, I'm not convinced the octogenarian Biden will do much better in the complex thinking department...although he seems to be more capable of listening to counsel than his predecessor.mike wrote: ↑Mon May 08, 2023 9:08 amThat's what I understood him to be saying, and I think that he is correct in that.Sliceitup wrote: ↑Sun May 07, 2023 1:45 pm
I think the point is that any leader needs to have better thinking processes in order to be a capable leader. I think there’s going to be chaos regardless. But Barr is saying that in the case of Trump that chaos will negatively affect the policy goals that his voters want.
With 300 million people to pick from...couldn't the country come up with a few better choices? I'm less convinced than ever that American Political polity, at least in the era of such a significantly divided government, is capable of producing consistently good candidate choices.
There seem to be better choices when Trump ran the first time. However at least Republicans were so concerned that Hillary Clinton could bring another Clinton administration into existence to run this country that Trump won because he had proven his ability and also gave confidence to his party he had switched to, that he could defeat hillary. At the time there were others that were highly respected but the concern was they could not defeat Hillary. Also his campaign promises to appoint conservative supreme Court justices to the bench when opening came, was something very important to conservatives who wish to see roe v Wade overturned. The fact that that campaign promise was fulfilled gave him the credibility that many were looking for. He was the first president and only president to walk in the pro-life March.
I was surprised in 2015 how many people I highly respected both in their face and wisdom were going to support Trump in the 2016 election. They had to set his personal life aside in this and that's fair because the personal life of many of our presidents were not free of sin. The question was who is better equipped to run the country and be a presence in the world.
This time around Trump has a couple of things going for him and that he gained the confidence while he was president that he would do just what he said he would do. He was not all talk. He was not concerned about catering to the needy that want to take advantage of the system. There is still a large population that believe the election was stolen from him no matter what is said. So many want to see him finish what he started. Not only that a lot of people are hurting financially and can compare that to how much better they were doing while Trump was in office.
If he had been allowed to do his job without the torment and bashing from day one, the writing and women's marches and terrible threats, we would not have experienced the lashing out. They're probably wouldn't have been the mean tweets, but I have seen signs and t-shirts that say I will take mean tweets any day over what we have now.
There maybe better candidates but they will have to prove that they can defeat the other party otherwise we will fall back on that dependence on someone who can win the battle
