Think about the following:
Not only is Biden's age a drawback but inflation is the worst it's been since the 1970's. Then there's this years' Congressional elections. As I mentioned in my previous article, "In America everything is blamed on Putin" OPEDNEWS, August 13, 2022, "the Dems are likely to lose the House majority and almost certainly the Senate-now 50-50 as well" this November.
So another Trump Biden matchup in all likelihood in '24? We'll see.
How far has American politics descended? If again it's the billionaire con man fraud versus the corporate owned octogenarian? How about the abyss.
It would be almost laughable but either man has the nuclear weapons codes and that alone is scary.
We've descended this far politically because there's no real alternative to the two party system.
Third parties are marginal. When Ralph Nader ran as an independent in 2000 he was never allowed to participate in the presidential debates.
Why? Because the debates are controlled by the Democratic National Committee and the Republican National Committee. They alone decide who can participate in the debates. The Committee's took over when the League of Women Voters declined running the debates in the late 1980's.
Can one imagine if Nader was allowed to participate. On all the issues he would have effectively destroyed the hapless "Dubya" Bush and challenged Al Gore on every issue. Those National Committees weren't about to let that happen.
I believe the American people want a viable third party alternative to challenge the two major parties. Yet how can that happen?
There are no Walter Cronkite's in the MSM today who the people trust. Someone trustworthy enough who could articulate how a viable third party could be formed, its candidate be able to participate in the presidential debates and become a viable contender against the Dem and Repub nominees.
Voting for either majority party nominee for president won't change anything fundamentally in this country.
Just look at the latest fiscal year budget passed unanimously by Congress and signed into law by Biden. The Defense Department will receive some $786 billion, pretty much what it gets every year.
Bloated, unnecessary. Sure. Yet it's unimaginable Nader as president would have signed such a bill.
But Biden or Trump or any other majority party president? That's a done deal.
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