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On FaceBorg: Debi Turner Said:
We all have a job to do now. This is the easy part, the harder parts come later.
Right now, we need to get all of the Democrats on the same page. There is about thirty percent of the population we will never be able to reach. They are so caught up in their hatefulness that they will follow anyone who gives them a license to be that way.
That leaves about 70%, but that is not what we need to be concerned with right now. If we can find unity among Democrats and those that are left leaning, that is where we start. Joe showed us the way tonight. I call him Joe, not out of disrespect, but because he is one of us. He has been underestimated for his entire career. But that ends today.
Last night, the most common comment among the experts was “unbelievable”. They compared Joe with Clinton in 1996. For those of you too young to remember that speech, the Republicans had tried to take down Bill in every way they could.
That year, he was up for re-election. Bob Dole was a good man. Conservative but fair minded. (In more ways than one, one could compare him to John McCain. They were the last of a dying breed.). When you look at many of Bill’s speeches, he was a first rate orator. In that year, he made the speech commonly called, “The end of big government”, establishing himself as a moderate and disarming any arguments that the well thought of Dole could make. The charges that they impeached him for years later were already fermenting. But by making himself the “Everyman” candidate, he united the party and won easily.
Clinton’s eloquence was never in doubt. But that State of the Union changed the course of the election.
Like Bill, the right viciously critisizes Joe. With his decades in government, nothing they have thrown at him sticks. Biden made it through the primaries and the last two years by keeping his nose to the grindstone, acting like a decent human being, and using every ounce of his experience to make sometimes novel but almost always successful policy decisions that took the devastation Trump had left behind, and healed our many wounds (and those of the world) more quickly than anyone had the right to expect.
Economists have called his policies miraculous (see Robert Reich last week), and the economy has made steady progress every month. Even with a plate full of catastrophes never seen since WWII, he took each in stride and plowed on. Covid was a pandemic that hit our country in many different ways. Biden picked up the failed Trump policies (Trump gets credit for pushing to finish the vaccine but did little to see it through). No one could have predicted Putin’s War, but Biden had the skills to handle it. Can you image any other President handling it better?
I realize I am addressing the converted, but all of this brings us to the problem at hand. And how to solve it.
In tonight's State of the Union, Biden shared the credit for his accomplishments with a large number of people, blue and red That is who he is, but it also leads to our dilemma. After Trump claiming credit for the sky being blue, in contrast, Biden’s modesty prevented the public from giving him credit.
We can make lists of the accomplishments under his belt, but with a public ignorant of how government works, all people know is that they are hurting, and need someone to blame. The one thing the Republicans made stick was in regards to Biden’s demeanor, which stuck because there was some
Biden Is older than we would like (although the right doesn't see the hypocrisy that so is Trump). Obama once admitted during a crisis to how sleep deprived he was. Joe has been looking very tired, although justifiably so.
But last night was a new Biden. Clear eyed, he not only stuck to his script, but seemed to be enjoying engaging the hecklers. He was astonishing!
Watching last night's speech should be mandatory for everyone on the left. Barring being able to tie people down to watch the entire 80 minutes, last night I shared a chunk of it that was the best of the best.
If liberals stand together, the nuisance agenda of the right will die a quiet death. Only the 30% MAGAs will hear it. The GQP's greatest strength has always been their unity. If we cannot imitative that one faction of their being, we shoot ourselves in the foot.
So what is the task before us? We need to put our own agendas to the side for now for the sake of the greater good. For now, the best use of our time would be to be firm when Dems lose sight of the agenda. Stand up and be heard! The little guys and pundits alike. Share lists of Joe’s accomplishments (I will post some memes) and use clips of the SOTU to put forth your points. AOC appeared with Rachel tonight and she obviously (if reluctantly) stuck to the agenda. Joe has made every effort to promote the progressive agenda, but we will have to hold their feet to the fire, as we cannot afford another 2016.
That is all for now. Sounds easy, right? (Of course it isn't.) But if we can borrow this one worthwhile trait of the Republicans, tonight Joe gave us every tool we need for success.