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Joe Biden is rescuing democracy from the grasp of a known felon and coup mastermind
https://www.newsweek.com/how-biden-can-save-democracywithout-dropping-out-opinion-1927772
How Biden Can Save Democracy—Without Dropping Out
best-case scenario for President Joe Biden is four more years in office. That by itself won't be enough to save democracy in the United States. This isn't some hyper partisan position, but the opinion of one of a dwindling number of independent voters.
I am one of those voters. I am a college-educated Midwesterner, who has lived in three major coastal cities as an adult. I do not work in politics or the news media. I am a small business owner, and my tax bracket gets hit hard no matter who is in office. I am also a Jewish American.
But who I am specifically does not matter. What should matter to the Biden campaign is that I am a registered and committed independent; a contingent which the media eschews to cover, and our two major political parties have failed to represent most profoundly.
I have voted for both Republican and Democratic candidates. I sincerely believe that adhering to a particular political party is either small minded, or represents something darker: a need to affix ourselves to dogma, trading independent thought for power and belonging.
I also understand the potential threat that Biden perceives to democracy when it comes to former President Donald Trump. If it walks and talks like a dictator, it probably is ... not so great for our democracy. More frighteningly, I do not believe the Trumpian threat to democracy was the brainchild of Donald Trump himself. It was most likely the result of both proactive and reactive threats to our democracy: kingmakers and strategists outside the realm of public view, and a growing number of Americans who feel silenced, ostracized, "outside of," and therefore ambivalent to our American democratic system.
https://www.newsweek.com/how-biden-can-save-democracywithout-dropping-out-opinion-1927772
How Biden Can Save Democracy—Without Dropping Out
best-case scenario for President Joe Biden is four more years in office. That by itself won't be enough to save democracy in the United States. This isn't some hyper partisan position, but the opinion of one of a dwindling number of independent voters.
I am one of those voters. I am a college-educated Midwesterner, who has lived in three major coastal cities as an adult. I do not work in politics or the news media. I am a small business owner, and my tax bracket gets hit hard no matter who is in office. I am also a Jewish American.
But who I am specifically does not matter. What should matter to the Biden campaign is that I am a registered and committed independent; a contingent which the media eschews to cover, and our two major political parties have failed to represent most profoundly.
I have voted for both Republican and Democratic candidates. I sincerely believe that adhering to a particular political party is either small minded, or represents something darker: a need to affix ourselves to dogma, trading independent thought for power and belonging.
I also understand the potential threat that Biden perceives to democracy when it comes to former President Donald Trump. If it walks and talks like a dictator, it probably is ... not so great for our democracy. More frighteningly, I do not believe the Trumpian threat to democracy was the brainchild of Donald Trump himself. It was most likely the result of both proactive and reactive threats to our democracy: kingmakers and strategists outside the realm of public view, and a growing number of Americans who feel silenced, ostracized, "outside of," and therefore ambivalent to our American democratic system.
