Face it, in a perfect world polls would show a creep like trump with only a handful of votes from racists, billionaires, and Putin-Russians.
The earth is going to have to survive another million years before humans even approach that kind of perfection!
In the perfect world we would choose political candidates according to their decency, their skill, and their willingness to do the hard work necessary to make life better. Instead, we face selfish, unscrupulous people using human failings such as racism and religion to manipulate voters into supporting the unsupportable.
It does us no good to stick our heads in the sand and pretend things are what they aren’t! Election results in America are determined far less on overall issues than on ‘perspective’. Slick ads selling a candidate as something he’s not are effective. So are lies circulated freely on the new and only partially understood (and still wildly uncontrolled) social media.
We see a talented man like Joe Biden and know he’s trying to do good things. We also recognize his ability to get things done, compromising where necessary. We want him to do well in a debate, but know his debating skills (like his speaking skills) are limited. If he blows the debate, we know it says little about his governing skills, and we try not to lose faith.
But here’s the thing. ‘We’ do not comprise a large enough portion of voters to insure election victory. Masses of people out there trudge to the polls filled with visions and ideas spoon-fed to them by the evil and unscrupulous. It does us no good to be ‘in the right’ if we lose the election. It does us no good to stick with Biden if it means handing the White House to the worst low-life man and party we’ve ever faced.
I fully support Joe Biden. He has been everything we hoped for and more. But he blew ‘the perspective’ so badly that leaders of every democracy in the world are in panic. And if you don’t believe me, pick up some foreign newspapers and read the headlines!
This isn’t a matter of loyalty. Joe will go down in history as extremely successful. But we simply can’t afford to let Trump and his mob regain power!