I think both parties suffer from the delusions of their so-called leaders. Biden first of all. He has no business running for reelection and should do the honorable thing, like LBJ did. Of course, he has until the end of March do repeat the actions of LBJ. But with his dismal approval ratings he hurts the party if he continues to claim he is seeking reelection. If he insists, at least he needs to find another VP candidate. Kamela Harris is a hot mess and has no business being a VP, let alone a president.
And Trump absolutely defines the word "delusional", and it is only compounded by the support he gets from his rabid core followers. Just like Kamela Harris has no business being vice-president, these uninformed and unintelligent Trump enthusiasts have no business getting anywhere close to a voting booth. There is only one candidate that Biden can defeat, it is Donald Trump. And either way a Trump-Biden election goes, it is a lose-lose for American democracy.
Again, all this was predicted almost a hundred and fifty years ago, and it has been a short journey to this point in the story of the American Republic. The greatest book of all time, Progress and Poverty by Henry George,
The type of modern growth is the great city. Here are to be found the greatest wealth and the deepest poverty. And it is here that popular government has most clearly broken down. In all the great American cities there is to-day as clearly defined a ruling class as in the most aristocratic countries of the world. Its members carry wards in their pockets, make up the slates for nominating conventions, distribute offices as they bargain together, and—though they toil not, neither do they spin—wear the best of raiment and spend money lavishly. They are men of power, whose favor the ambitious must court and whose vengeance he must avoid. Who are these men? The wise, the good, the learned—men who have earned the confidence of their fellow-citizens by the purity of their lives, the splendor of their talents, their probity in public trusts, their deep study of the problems of government? No; they are gamblers, saloon keepers, pugilists, or worse, who have made a531 trade of controlling votes and of buying and selling offices and official acts. They stand to the government of these cities as the Prætorian Guards did to that of declining Rome. He who would wear the purple, fill the curule chair, or have the fasces carried before him, must go or send his messengers to their camps, give them donatives and make them promises. It is through these men that the rich corporations and powerful pecuniary interests can pack the Senate and the bench with their creatures. It is these men who make School Directors, Supervisors, Assessors, members of the Legislature, Congressmen. Why, there are many election districts in the United States in which a George Washington, a Benjamin Franklin or a Thomas Jefferson could no more go to the lower house of a State Legislature than under the Ancient Régime a base-born peasant could become a Marshal of France. Their very character would be an insuperable disqualification.
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A couple of paragraphs before that quote there is this,
power must pass into the hands of jobbers who will buy and sell it as the Prætorians sold the Roman purple, or into the hands of demagogues who will seize and wield it for a time, only to be displaced by worse demagogues.
That was published in 1879. Hey DeSantis, want to impress me, make Progress and Poverty required reading for high school students. Comical, he sure never read the damn book.
Honestly, I don't know the answer. Maybe I win the damn Mega MIllions tomorrow and run for office myself, under a Georgist platform. It almost seems that one in three hundred plus million chance is all America has to hold on to. I am not seeing anyone else step up to the plate with that Georgist philosophy. Einstein and Henry Ford were Georgist. But so was William Buckley Jr. and Martin Luther King. Both those pairs had stunningly divergent thoughts on society, and both supported the very same political philosophy. There has to be something to that.
Robert Kennedy Jr. is a damn joke, a red herring candidate financed primarily by Republicans. DeSantis is a damn idiot that makes Michelle Bachmann look appealing. Tim Scott, holy shit, give me a break. Nope, Pat McCory and Roy Cooper, that should be the 2024 presidential election and yeah, I am from North Carolina. We haven't had a president in office since Andrew Johnson, maybe that is part of the damn problem. But at least instead of a lose-lose proposition, it becomes a win-win. And that is what I do, I create win-wins.
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You all can chime in if you've seen a candidate do this. His ad was a mishmash of fake scandals, Hunter Biden, and the aforementioned polls. Fifteen months before the election. He better step his game up. Fortunately, for him, he has time. Unfortunately for him, Georgia is next up with their indictments. 
