Joe Biden’s Theoretical Call for Democracy: After the January 6 Election in Washington, the U.S. Capitol Dome Is a Better Place for the Fundamental Truth
Americans needed Joe Biden to tell them about democracy. But it was not the one voters most want now from their president – that relief is at hand from the soaring cost of living.
The speech that Biden delivered blocks from the US Capitol was a strong election-closing argument. But for an election other than the one taking place next week.
That’s not to say that the warning was misplaced. Biden felt it necessary to say that democracy can’t be taken for granted any longer because of political violence and election denialism. Who will guarantee this historic legacy if a president does not protect it? The chaos and violence Trump incited after the 2020 election show what unfolds when a president chooses to try to destroy democracy for personal gain.
“You have the power, it’s your choice, it’s your decision, the fate of the nation, the fate of the soul of America lies, as it always does, with the people,” Biden told voters.
The elections should have more than one thing. Voters can chew gum at the same time. But the harsh truth is this: In Washington, where just a glimpse of the towering Capitol dome reminds politicians and their media chroniclers of the January 6 horror, the threat to democracy feels visceral.
The gut check issue is not as old-fashioned as the idea of self-government would suggest in the heartlands of Pennsylvania. It’s the more basic one of feeding a family. America’s founding truths, like the cost of a cart full of groceries, or the price of gas, are less important than an election about cost of groceries and gas.
Source: https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/03/politics/joe-biden-plea-for-democracy-analysis/index.html
The Price of Everything Was Better During Trump, and Everybody Was Looking Forward to Retirement: A Critique of the Democrats’ Failure to Prevent National Unity
During her CNN interview, retireePatricia Strong stated: “The price of everything was better during Trump, we were looking forward to retirement because everything was good.”
The Federal Reserve raised its short-term borrowing rate for the second time in a row on Wednesday, which was bad news for Americans with credit card debt. There are fears the Fed’s strategy could pitch the economy into recession and ruin one of the best aspects of the Biden economy – the low unemployment rate.
Biden is suggesting that the election could cause political harm that is beyond mending, since the current election has so many anti-democratic Republican candidates.
But it’s a tough case to make in such a doom-laden political environment for Democrats. They don’t listen to Biden and his call for national unity because they think Trump lied about the last election. His low approval ratings are not helpful. And in a new CNN/SSRS survey published on Wednesday, for instance, 51% of Americans said inflation and the economy was most driving their vote in the midterms. Abortion – the issue Democrats hoped would save them next Tuesday after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade this summer – was the only other concern in double figures, polling at 15% of likely voters. And voting rights and election integrity – the focus of the president’s speech on Wednesday night – polled at only 9%.
He said he hoped the future of democracy was an important part of their decision to vote. “Will that person accept the outcome of the election, win or lose?” At the end of a campaign that several GOP nominees have not given assurances they would accept voter’s will, he added.
Source: https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/03/politics/joe-biden-plea-for-democracy-analysis/index.html
The President of the United States hasn’t been afraid of the rising prices: Why President Biden is so angry about the outcome of the 2020 election
It’s not that Biden hasn’t been also talking about high prices. His pitch is that the billions of dollars of spending in his domestic agenda will lower the cost of health care, lift up working families and create millions of jobs. That may be the case, but it can’t change the pain being felt.
Throughout history, inflation has often been a pernicious political force that breeds desperation in an electorate and seeds extremism as a potential response. That is what makes politicians afraid of it and why the Biden White House didn’t seem to take the surge of prices seriously.
In his inaugural address in front of a Congress still violence-scarred, the president renewed his call for national unity. The reason American democracy was under attack was due to the former president refusing to accept the results of the 2020 election.
“He has abused his power and put the loyalty to himself before loyalty to the Constitution. And he’s made the Big Lie an article of faith in the MAGA Republican Party – a minority of that party,” Biden said, being careful not to insult every GOP voter as he did when referring to “semi-fascism” earlier this year.
The president said that Trump’s threat was much larger now than it was in the 2020 election. “As I stand here today, there are candidates running for every level of office in America: for governor, Congress, for attorney general, for secretary of state who won’t commit – who will not commit to accepting the results of the elections they’re running in,” the president warned.
Biden also hinted at a lack of understanding of Trump’s MAGA supporters, who have embraced his anti-democratic, populist, nationalist appeal to mainly White voters, which grew out of a backlash to the first Black presidency of Barack Obama. The 44th president of the country has been making his own attacks on Trump in recent days.
Donald Trump ran against Hillary Clinton in 2016 for president, promising a break from the bipartisan enthusiasm for globalization, an end to outsourcing, a manufacturing revival, new infrastructure spending, and a fight with China instead of friendly integration.
Seven years later, President Biden just gave a State of the Union speech whose key themes and most enthusiastic riffs could have been lifted — albeit with more Bidenisms and fewer insults — from Trump’s populist campaign.
The most familiar themes of the Democrats are tax only the rich, not to touch Social Security and Medicare, and spend infinitely on education. The Democrats used the issue of abortion to make a political point and pushed it into the speech after the president had wrapped up his main pitch.
How Can Covid and Other Viruses Be Survived? A View from Tufekci’s Point of View
What are the risks of things like long covid and reinfections? That’s a difficult question to answer definitely, writes the Opinion columnist Zeynep Tufekci, because of the lack of adequate research and support for sufferers, as well as confusion about what the condition even is. There are suggestions for how to approach the problem. A virologist insists that there’s never been a variant that negates the benefits of vaccines, so there hasn’t been another Covid danger.
How will the virus continue to change? As a group of scientists who study viruses explains, “There’s no reason, at least biologically, that the virus won’t continue to evolve.” From a different angle, the science writer David Quammen surveys some of the highly effective tools and techniques that are now available for studying Covid and other viruses, but notes that such knowledge alone won’t blunt the danger.
What could endemic Covid look like? 100,000 Americans could die from the coronaviruses every year, according to David Wallace Wells. Stopping that will require a creative effort to increase and sustain high levels of vaccination. The new vaccines may be part of the answer according to theImmunobiologist Akiko Iwasaki.