task0778
Diamond Member
The 1st thing I want to say is that they are both assholes. But while Biden is basically a puppet for the democratic party (always has been), Trump is a self-aggrandizing egotistical bastard that really doesn't care about the GOP at all. If both of these allegations are true, then what? Both have character issues, there's no doubt about that. Some say Trump is worse than Biden; maybe so, but I'm not sure what difference that makes. To my mind, the real question is in what direction (policies) either man will take us.
For starters, if you vote for Biden you are voting for the policies of the Democratic Party. Biden is not a leader, he's a follower that does the bidding of his party and so if you support the DP then he's your man. IOW, he takes his directions totally from someone else. He has his own set of deplorables, and he's a senile old man that ought to be in a nursing home somewhere. But I see the DP as too big spenders that will eventually lead to a debt crisis. The republicans are big spenders too, but not as much as the democrats. In my lifetime, I have never seen a time when the democrats wanted to spend less on something than the GOP did.
Trump OTOH, cares nothing about the Republican Party. He only cares about Trump; he wants his agenda not theirs and has no more scruples than the democrats do to get what he wants. It seems that Trump doesn't take directions from anybody, he might listen but he's gonna do what he wants to do whether it's good politics or not. And he is convinced that whatever he wants to do IS in the best interests of the country.
The good news is that regardless of which man wins in November, they aren't going to get much of what they want done, unless he also has a majority in both Houses of Congress. In Trump's case, as president he will not have the full support of all republicans, but I am not sure the same can be said for Biden and the democrats. The last time, only Manchin and Sinema prevented the end of the filibuster, which I believe spells the end of the republican form of gov't we have now.
The biggest concern about this election IMHO is that whoever gets elected to the Oval Office may well put 1 or 2 justices on the SCOTUS, and that is a big deal. I think the current court will not allow the president of either party to assume power/control over things outside their jurisdiction. The US Constitution enumerates what the federal gov't can do and if it ain't there then they can't do it, and that function falls to the states to decide for themselves. A more progressive court will result in a more powerful and intrusive federal gov't that personally I don't want.
For starters, if you vote for Biden you are voting for the policies of the Democratic Party. Biden is not a leader, he's a follower that does the bidding of his party and so if you support the DP then he's your man. IOW, he takes his directions totally from someone else. He has his own set of deplorables, and he's a senile old man that ought to be in a nursing home somewhere. But I see the DP as too big spenders that will eventually lead to a debt crisis. The republicans are big spenders too, but not as much as the democrats. In my lifetime, I have never seen a time when the democrats wanted to spend less on something than the GOP did.
Trump OTOH, cares nothing about the Republican Party. He only cares about Trump; he wants his agenda not theirs and has no more scruples than the democrats do to get what he wants. It seems that Trump doesn't take directions from anybody, he might listen but he's gonna do what he wants to do whether it's good politics or not. And he is convinced that whatever he wants to do IS in the best interests of the country.
The good news is that regardless of which man wins in November, they aren't going to get much of what they want done, unless he also has a majority in both Houses of Congress. In Trump's case, as president he will not have the full support of all republicans, but I am not sure the same can be said for Biden and the democrats. The last time, only Manchin and Sinema prevented the end of the filibuster, which I believe spells the end of the republican form of gov't we have now.
The biggest concern about this election IMHO is that whoever gets elected to the Oval Office may well put 1 or 2 justices on the SCOTUS, and that is a big deal. I think the current court will not allow the president of either party to assume power/control over things outside their jurisdiction. The US Constitution enumerates what the federal gov't can do and if it ain't there then they can't do it, and that function falls to the states to decide for themselves. A more progressive court will result in a more powerful and intrusive federal gov't that personally I don't want.
