(10-26-2023, 01:59 PM)ANNEE Wrote: Exactly! Even if you don't like Trump -- it does not make you pro-Biden. And vice-versa.
I say "in 10 years I'll look back". History has a way of clarifying the effects of each presidency. Not emotions.
Honestly, I think most people are Social Liberal/Fiscal Conservative -- and are tired of the extremism coming from both sides.
I know I am "Socially liberal" in the classic sense of "liberal" associated with "liberty". I just don't care what anyone else does if it's not impacting me or mine. I do me, they can do them. And I'm also financially conservative. Probably my Scottish genes kicking in hard. Money is nice, but if I spend it, then I don't have it, and that doesn't make a lot of sense to me to live life like that.
So at least as regards myself, you're assessment is probably right on the money.
I don't like Biden because he seems entirely unfit for the job, and it appears to me that other folks are steering while he's asleep at the wheel... and they're steering us towards a looming cliff. I'm not too wild about Trump, either. Sure, he got stuff done, but those "mean tweets" just gave folks an excuse to try and hamper him at every turn, to the point that he was spending more time trying to go over the top with them than he could spend governing. As far as the tweet themselves go, I just took them to be representative of yet another useless internet war, a waste of time that would have been more productively spent actually DOING stuff rather than pissing and moaning about it.
After the last election, he should have bowed out of running political races and jus sat back on his laurels as a Kingmaker for the Republicans, their Elder Statesman. But no, he just had to make another run at the limelight, and that has probably prevented some of the more capable Republicans from even trying to run this cycle, figuring it's a waste of time and resources t=for them to even try.
So now they have a field of useful idiots like Chris Christy, Mike Pence, Vivek Ravaswany, and Nikki Haley. I wouldn't vote for any of those for local Dog Catcher, much less "Leader of the Free World", whatever meaning that phrase even has left after the Biden debacle.
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