The greatest success of our oligarchy is undermining faith in government in order to hamstring any progressive agenda. While the Republicans are useful idiots in this endeavor, it is their wealthy owners who benefit the most from lack of regulatory oversight and low taxation rates.
The heralding of the weakness of our government, and the need for a strong President, is by design, and a hallmark of the slide into authoritarianism. Too many people have bought into the myth that government cannot be effective. They have also accepted the basic lie of the strongman, “Only I can fix this.”
I see these thoughts echoed in the calls for our party to somehow replace the top of our ticket this late in the game. A strongman President is somehow a necessity, when this is precisely opposite of what our Founders intended. We were to have no kings.
This is the simple truth: a vote for Biden is a vote for stability. He is aged. But our Constitution has mechanisms in place for handling Presidents who are incapacitated. Laws exist for the transition of power in this unlikely event. Equally unlikely is the event where the President is the key agent of the fortune of our Union. The government as a whole operates to safeguard us.
The contrast must be drawn: a vote for Trump is a vote for chaos. He flaunts laws with no consequence. If placed in office, he will order his AG to stop all judicial proceedings against him. There will be no justice for the great crime of the attack on our Congress on January 6th of 2021.
Joe Biden represents the stable course forward. There is not another option.