Comments - Thursday in the Courts
Mr. Pfeiffer, both Trump and Biden agreed there would be no fact checking from the moderators during the debate. So; no fact checking. Some have complained that Trump was allowed to weasel out of answering about 5 questions. But this is not entirely true. Both Bash and Tapper tried to get him to answer by repeating their questions. He simply refused. Which is, of course a kind of answer in itself. There was nothing they could have done to force him to answer. Break his arm? Yell at him? Kick his shins?
Something more important to me is the remarkable circumstances surrounding their questioning about unions. But, you might say: "The moderators did not ask about unions."
That is the remarkable part. They asked nothing about unions.
12% of American voters are Black. 12% of American wage earners are in unions.
Bash and Tapper thought it was appropriate to ask about Black voters. But not about unionized wage earners. Why do you suppose that is? Unions have been experiencing a resurgence of late. President Biden is the first President in our history to walk a picket line. In Detroit with the UAW.
Please believe me when I say I can bring up more examples of topics of import to millions of Americans which Bash and Tapper willingly left out. You can no doubt bring up topics yourself.
Why did Bash and Tapper leave out unions?
They are both examples of white, upper-middle-class, privileged Americans who feel entitled to their comfortable, and high-paying careers. They are like others of their kind who are completely out of contact with the ordinary working American whose paycheck barely keeps a roof over their head. They are biased, either consciously or not. It does not matter how. The result is bias against wage earners and unions.
This bias is common in American public discourse. To his credit, old Joe Biden is in contact with common American citizens. Like millions of us he swims at the beach; he rides his bicycle and falls off. He loves his vintage Corvette, what American man wouldn't? Let us be honest: Joe Biden is one of us. He will win the election in 2024 and drag along many other Democrats on the ballot with him. Why do I believe this? Because he is one of us and we like him? Not at all. We will re-elect him because of all the policies he has created which have benefitted us all.
Since 1860 up until the present the party holding the White House has always won re-election if they had given the public policies in the preceding four years which benefitted and/or pleased the majority of voters.
Why is it FDR was re-elected four times even though he was a member of the upper class, the wealthy elite, not an ordinary citizen? The answer: he gave us a good life. His programs benefitted everyone, not just those who were like him. Granted FDR is an extraordinary example in the truest sense of the word extraordinary. We have not seen his like since. The closest we came to this kind of extraordinary type was the wealthy, upper class extraordinary John F. Kennedy. Which is exactly why the elite assassinated him. They were terribly afraid of another FDR, this one a young, brilliant, handsome, charming, injured war hero who was clearly unbeatable at the poles. Old Joe Biden is not all those things. But he is smart, kind wise, and experienced enough to have pulled us through the greatest plague since the influenza of 1919 which killed way more people than WWI. He has given us so many good programs that they are too numerous to list here. If he and the Dems. take over in 2024 they can give us all the things that 70% of Americans want, eg. single-payer government health care, universal, quality public education, less expensive housing, public transportation, clean air and water. If they do, they will hold on to the white House for a generation or more. They will force the Republicans to move to the left or they will never have power again.
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