I have to admit that I was 100% wrong about the election of 2024. After the Biden/Trump debate, I knew that Biden would not be the nominee and was excited to predict that whoever would be the nominee, would be terrific and would beat Trump. I had assumed there would be an open Convention and that any number of highly qualified Democrats would rise to the top. My favorites were Meg Whitmer and Amy Klobuchar for the combination of their ability to beat Trump and win in red states. Of course, the open Convention didn’t happen, and Kamala Harris was anointed. Not a great beginning, I thought, but ok.
Thank you Steven. Maybe a Centrist Party will be strong enough to come to power after we live through some very bad outcomes from a second Trump presidency. It might take some very, very bad outcomes directly and provably related to Trump presidential misdeeds before being acknowledged by the electorate. Look to the stunning hypocritical blind spot in 52% of the voting public in service of immediate gratification. Joe Biden was forced to bow out of the race because he was revealed as mentally unfit to serve 4 years as President. Then, throughout the campaign Trump proved he, also, is mentally unfit to serve 4 years as President. For every voter who decried Joe Biden after (and before...) the June 27th debate as unfit, the election should have been as simple as voting for Harris as the mentally fit candidate for office. The plain fact is that Trump voters don't really care about a President's mental fitness. They really care about having more for themselves in the immediate future. Trump promised that and Harris did not. More than half of all voting Americans do not want to hear that hard work, unity and sacrifice right now will best serve the nation as a whole in decades to come. Sharing the benefits and burdens of a just society based on truthfulness, fairness and restraint is, at the moment, un-American. in the eyes of the 52% who knowingly and willingly voted for a cognitively impaired, narcissistic, immoral, cruel, dull-witted autocrat.
Thank you Steven. Maybe a Centrist Party will be strong enough to come to power after we live through some very bad outcomes from a second Trump presidency. It might take some very, very bad outcomes directly and provably related to Trump presidential misdeeds before being acknowledged by the electorate. Look to the stunning hypocritical blind spot in 52% of the voting public in service of immediate gratification. Joe Biden was forced to bow out of the race because he was revealed as mentally unfit to serve 4 years as President. Then, throughout the campaign Trump proved he, also, is mentally unfit to serve 4 years as President. For every voter who decried Joe Biden after (and before...) the June 27th debate as unfit, the election should have been as simple as voting for Harris as the mentally fit candidate for office. The plain fact is that Trump voters don't really care about a President's mental fitness. They really care about having more for themselves in the immediate future. Trump promised that and Harris did not. More than half of all voting Americans do not want to hear that hard work, unity and sacrifice right now will best serve the nation as a whole in decades to come. Sharing the benefits and burdens of a just society based on truthfulness, fairness and restraint is, at the moment, un-American. in the eyes of the 52% who knowingly and willingly voted for a cognitively impaired, narcissistic, immoral, cruel, dull-witted autocrat.