Unity of purpose and common sense will win this election; not panic and blame. [View all]

https://signalpress.blogspot.com/2024/07/blame-and-panic-wont-win-this-election.html

Democrats were hoping for a debate performance from Joe Biden last week that would be similar to the ones he delivered in the 2020 campaign. When that didn't materialize, the panic set in. Among Democrats, I don't think the impression was so much about whether Biden could win the election as it was the impression that speculation over his mental stability, which has been hanging around from the very first moment he decided to run, would cut into his support that doesn't seem to be quite what it was in 2020, when he defeated Trump and picked up over 80 million votes.

What transpired is the result of a combination of things. One, a sensationalist, less mature, less experienced overall news media with sharp political divisions within that operates on money tied to ratings, has ;atched on to the idea that President Biden is too old to serve in office for another term and they insist on using every bit of evidence to prove their contention. While doing that, they ignore Trump's threats, lies, draconian plans for his second term in office, including the horrific Project 2025 plan cooked up by the Heritage Foundation and right wing Christian nationalist extremists. Two, fear generated by polling data from a myriad of polling sources, many of them lacking credibility, some of them over-adjusting for mistakes they made in 2020 and in 2016, many of them very Republican in their slant. Three, after already enduring a four year Trump Presidency, and seeing the very predictable resistance he put up to cooperating with the peaceful transfer of power at the end, basically ignoring the Constitution and attempting to steal an election he lost, there is genuine, plausible and very realistic fear among everyone other than his own MAGA base, that if he gets the power of the Presidency again, he will kill American constitutional democracy and set up an oligarchy of the wealthy, with himself as dictator. He's said as much. He's figured out every loophole to keep going.

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So take this as a rallying point, a turning point, and use the support and motivation that has been expressed since the debate in a more positive direction. Let the President determine his own fate, and the rest of us, those of us who have seen what this man has done and can do, need to act with common sense and understand the unity of our purpose is making sure Trump doesn't get back in the White House. We need to be spending our resources, precious time, and energy on getting the President re-elected and keeping the party unified, not on squabbling over something that isn't going to happen. We also have a very intelligent, vibrant, politically savvy Vice President who can step right in at any point during the next four years, if it becomes necessary, and do the job.

We are Democrats. The ballot box, which has nominated Joe Biden for President on our behalf, has spoken. Be smart. Understand that Trump is the real enemy, and venting feelings because of not getting one's way only contributes support to Trump. We are certainly more mature than that.