PERSPECTIVES
Knowledge is crucial...
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The blow is still sore, but the swelling is subsiding, and my perspective is being honed. It will be difficult to see the convicted felon POTUS-elect, but I will avert my eyes when News Media features him— I just need to focus on the bottom, top, left or right edge of the screen and the experience will become a bit more bearable.
Has November 5th election been, perhaps, a lesson in arrogance and hubris? Why did Biden block any attempts to have an open Democratic Party Convention (DPC)? Why did he resist withdrawing from the race when his infirmities were clearly visible to the whole world? Were less than 100 days sufficient for Kamala to establish herself as a vote-worthy candidate? What do we learn from this?
As I have previously stated, I don’t consider myself a political expert/pundit. But is it not worthwhile to consider what the benefits of an open DPC would have been?
The Democratic Party is very diverse. That diversity brings with it different perspectives on a variety of issues: the economy; abortion; health care; global warming; racism; crime; gun policy; Biden’s support of Netanyahu; a perhaps too “woke” social platform that may have proved to be a “bridge too far” for centrists; the suffering of the unemployed and the unemployable; inflation; affordable housing; and on and on.
One opinion that I read considered that the Democratic Party is too elitist. What do you think?
A story: following the 2016 election that gave us the current convict-for-POTUS many people thought that they could influence electors to “vote their conscience”.
It was bitterly cold with subfreezing temperatures mid-December 2016. A group of us demonstrated all day before the Texas Capitol urging the electors to elect Hillary Clinton instead of the obvious misfit. We all know how that turned out.
While we, the hoi polloi, froze our walnettos off on that day, Hillary was hosting moneyed donors at a private reception.
It is clear to me that the election of the convict in 2024 will be detrimental to all citizens— except gazillionaires. The ranks of the dissatisfied will grow. This brings an opportunity for a true party of the people to emerge. Will the nation produce it?
The two-party system has been broke for decades. It's always the same endgame of voting for the lesser of two evils, but more recently, one evil was clearly more evil than the other. Then you have the choice of voting for a alternative candidate who has no chance of winning, so that's a wasted vote, or not voting at all. Fortunately, our votes can still make a difference locally...at least it could. I'm not sure how that will pan out under the coming dictatorship.
It's clear that disinformation and billionaires won this election, but how do we effectively combat it?
Another great thought piece. Tons of what went wrong points of view out there. The amount of money spent by both parties to influence the vote and their marketing messages to gain peoples votes is one of the first places I look. Marketing lies is unfortunately a bigger draw than asking people to vote their conscience