Sleepy Joe on track to be a two-term President.

Don’t get me wrong, I like Biden, but I hope there will be another competent candidate for president. Biden is aging.

unless he voluntarily steps back or makes a Trump-level blunder, the Party will go with Biden

Probably. But I won’t complain

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I will never understand why people like biden
I mean, i guess he's a bit better than trump in some fields, but he also has massive shortcomings that people dont see because they're blinded by their hate of Trump.
He is in many respects the same as trump, but less charismatic. The only people saying that they are different are the dems and GOP because they profit from it. In america, you only have the illusion of choice
They want you to believe you have fight the evil nazis on the other side or the evil communists on the other side so that you dont realise what is actually happening.
You can also see it here. People are just throwing insults at each other instead of offering a coherent argument and having meaningful discussion about the problems that affect the nation.
The nation doesn't or shouldn't care about trivial issues such as what a celebrity thinks about the Amish.
I think it would benefit everyone it we took a look at the bigger picture and stopped fighting each other.
Politics isn't supposed to carpet the world, only to make it good enoung to wear slippers

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i agree with your sentiment but not your perspective. in a field of many qualified candidates, i wouldn't have voted for Biden. but it was Biden vs. Trump and that was a clear choice for enough people.

i don't hate Trump. i dislike him for his character and i'm beyond pissed off at the damage his policies have caused. this doesn't blind me, or many people i think, but it just motivates us.

if you try to reason with the conservative folks, it rarely goes anywhere because they want to be respected while not respecting you enough to have a command of documented facts or to accept the conclusions of a good argument. it ends up being a waste of time. so people (like me) use political meming instead as a way of venting and joking about things that are troubling and stressful. if i could see a path to renormalization that was effective and worth my time, i'd take it. but so far..

I think we also don't realise what we make the other side out to be. You said yourself that they are too stupid to "get it", but they think that way about you.

If you sat down with one of the more conservative imgflippers, i think you would have a much better chance at talking it through and understanding the other side a little bit better so you don't just throw shit at each other like is so often the case with american politics.

None of these are directed directly at you, but are more general questions for everyone
I am aware of how much this sounds like a 45 year old trying to convince you that bullying is a national security threat

i don't think i said conservatives as a group were stupid. i have said that many people have a habit of not thinking deeply about things that challenge their viewpoint. almost everyone is too confident in their opinions and too ready to make assumptions about those they're chatting with.

i've listened to a lot of conservatives, some of whom i admire and respect. many of my friends from college are conservatives (and many more are liberals), and some like me are eclectically minded. i listen until the other person's position is clear. if they only give me the same old baloney, i can't listen to that very long.

so i don't see that we have a situation where two sides don't understand each other very well. it is a situation where there are basic philosophical disagreements, exacerbated not by a lack of information, but by an abundance of misinformation. for reasons of greed and power lust, there is active effort to maintain the ignorance and the polarization.

Yes, the whole us political system relies on you thinking that the 2 parties are different.
The sides do not understand the other because of the misinformation. Republicans like to tell their voters that the democrats are all communists who will take away their freedoms, just like democrats like to tell their voters all republicans are nazis who will deport all non-white people.
This problem is then exacerbated by online echo chambers where we only hear our opinion over and over again and dont think of others as people, but usernames.
The parties like it this way because people are so focused on playing the game that they didn't stop to think why and what they get

I really hope he runs in 2024

Dude, there's a guy from your university pulling some next-level dog-whistle, race-baiting shit....

well he is.