Will The Elderly Stick Us With Trump Or Biden And Then All Die Off In The Pandemic Before The Consequences Are Felt?

James Carville is a vile, mouldering 75 year old man, who long ago lost any relevance he ever had-- other than on Comcast TV. Last night, as Biden was racking up his wins he cackled, "Let’s shut this puppy down, and let’s move on and worry about November. This thing is decided. There’s no reason to keep it going, not even a day longer." The elderly-- who were responsible for Trump's tenure in the White House (and thereby the inadequate response to COVID-19 and many of their own, perhaps untimely, deaths)-- are about to saddle the Democratic Party with another anti-inspirational, insiders-only, vision-free nominee.

Tuesday in Michigan, Bernie's appeal was to the people who will be left after the coronavirus pandemic burns out. He won:

• 83% of 18-24 vote
• 81% of 25-29 vote
• 62% of 30-39 vote
• 51% of 40-49 vote.

Most of the walking dead, like Carville, voted for Biden. The walking dead won. And I guess we don't get a re-vote in a few months, when they're dead. Which reminds me of two things (aside from the fact that I'm 72 years old):

• Most of those expressing great fear of coronavirus to pollsters, said they voted for Biden, the anti-Medicare-for-All Democrat
• Why didn't MSNBC fire Carville at the same time they fired Chris Matthews, their best decision of 2020?

John Harris' Mini-Tuesday wrap-up for Politico-- Biden and Trump: Don’t Stop Thinking About Yesterday-- captured the state of the country's politics: "2020 promises to offer two old men but no new ideas."

16 and 17 year olds aren't allowed to vote. Presumably thiner minds aren't matter enough. Why are people over 85 voting, even if their minds are... over-mature. Maybe there should be some kind of testing... like when old people renew drivers' licenses? "At a transformative moment in history-- when the onrush of changes in climate, technology, demography, and global balance-of-power are creating a new generation of urgent policy challenges in the United States and around the world-- the 2020 race now promises to be effectively devoid of new ideas," wrote Harris. "Instead, this promises to be a race above all about character and personal qualities. It will be waged by old men-- age 73 for the incumbent, age 77 for the presumptive challenger-- whose essential worldviews were formed decades ago and whose essential instincts and preoccupations are backward-looking."

Both candidates are noticeably-- and increasingly-- senile, which seems to be repulsing people under 50 and looking attractively self-affirming to people over 70.

The main idea of Biden’s campaign is, in the phrase that had its origins in a malapropism by Warren G. Harding, a return to normalcy. He has the usual roster of standard Democratic policy positions but they are not animated by an arresting new vision, like Barack Obama’s “hope and change” message of 2008. Instead, Biden’s promise is mostly about the restoration of civility and precedent.

The main idea of Trump’s campaign is by all evidence the continuation of non-normalcy. Disruption was his promise in 2016, and what he has delivered for three years. Increasingly, though, that disruption is less about specific policy goals-- never mind larger ideas—than it is about Trump’s own cult of personality, with its titanic gyrations of whimsy and grievance.

Here’s one to be answered by Trump supporters: If he wins a second term, his most important policy goal will be: What?

Here’s one to be answered by any voter. The State of the Union address, when presidents seeking re-election historically lay out a second-term agenda, was just last month. Yes, you probably remember a carnival-like atmosphere, during which Rush Limbaugh was bestowed the Medal of Freedom and Nancy Pelosi ripped up her copy of the speech. Do you remember Trump’s main new policy initiative or any big promises he intends to make the basis of his re-election?

As a political culture, we are now so immersed in the nonstop news cycle with its premium on insult, indignation, and living in the moment that we scarcely notice when an election that is momentous by any measure winds up with a choice like this one. 2020 will have one candidate who is all about Trump, another who is all about being the opposite of Trump, but no candidate who has defined himself by a new set of arguments about the future, or a new set of remedies about the problems likely to shadow the country or the world in the years ahead.

Bill Clinton, whose 1990s-era policies are largely out of fashion and whose personal lapses are now judged censoriously by Democrats who were once more forgiving, perhaps still might get some credit for knowing something about presidential politics. One of his signature maxims is, Every election is about the future.



Hmm….It would be interesting to get Clinton’s unfiltered analysis of this one. His theme was the Fleetwood Mac song, “Don’t Stop (Thinking About Tomorrow).” Biden and Trump, by contrast, sometimes seem to be urging, “Don’t Stop Thinking About Yesterday.”

Biden began his campaign with what turned out to be a blunder, referring to the Senate that he served in after winning shortly before his 30th birthday in 1972, when he said he managed to work productively even with that era’s segregationists whose views he found repugnant. Though he has dropped fond references to Dixiecrats, he still cites his own history crafting deals in the Senate, and, on a more personal note, his own perseverance through tragedy after the 1972 deaths of his first wife and daughter and the 2015 death of his son, Beau Biden.

Trump, likewise, filters contemporary issues through a personal prism that is decades old. His warnings about the rise of China flow rhetorically directly from his 1980s warnings about what was then seen as the implacable rise of Japan. His descriptions of negotiations with leaders in Congress to other heads of state often use language that sound like the advice he gave in his 1987 book, “The Art of the Deal,” published when he was 42. One of his major first-term policy victories was fulfilling a pledge to replace Clinton’s NAFTA trade deal, passed more than a quarter-century ago.

Even as the world changes dramatically, by all evidence what Democratic voters seem to want this year-- no less than Republican Trump diehards-- is a contest over character and personal traits.

In other words... which candidate lies more? Which candidate has a more repulsive and corrupt family? Which candidate is more incapacitated mentally? Which, in the end, is the lesser of two evils? This is the perfect battleground for someone like Trump-- and will be absolutely catastrophic for a traditional old hawkish pol like Status Quo Joe Biden, who has one chance of getting into the White House: Trump making himself-- if he hasn't already-- too beyond the pale even for the morons who vote in American elections.





Neil Young is also old (74 years old)-- but a brand new voters, so he sounded 18 yesterday when he endorsed Bernie:

I support Bernie because I listen to what he says. Every point he makes is what I believe in. Every one.

In 2016, If Bernie had run instead of Hillary Clinton, I think we would not have the incompetent mess we have now.

Does America have the Democrat party insiders, the DNC to blame for our incompetent mess?

Did the DNC pull every political string to stop Bernie and get Hillary in 2016?

Did that work?

Now, are they trying to stop Bernie Sanders again?

Is Joe the new Hillary?

Is that what you really want?

I think the DNC is more interested in themselves and the power of their party than anything else.

As a new citizen, I was excited to register to vote. Outside the courthouse after I was naturalized, (funny word for it) there was a Democrat Party Registration booth. I registered. My first error as a U.S. citizen will be corrected now.

I am registering Independent. The wheels are in motion. I don’t trust the DNC because I think the DNC is pushing their own agenda over the good of our country.

The thing about Bernie for me is he is consistent. He wants our children to have the best chance at a great education.

The DNC will spread their talking point that ‘Bernie is Divisive.’ They will tell MSNBC and CNN to spread that opinion. They will spread it.

That’s because Bernie is not with the DNC.

Bernie is with you.

Are Bernie’s Policies Radical?

Fight CLIMATE CHANGE like it is real.
Eliminate STUDENT DEBT
Make COLLEGE TUITION Free.
Pay for it all with TAXES ON THE SUPER RICH
$15.00 MINIMUM WAGE
HEALTH CARE AS A HUMAN RIGHT!
The GREEN NEW DEAL for millions of new jobs with a future.

These are Bernie’s ambitious goals on your behalf.
I don’t think these are radical goals. Do you?
These goals are opposed by the DNC. Ask yourself WHY?

Listen to what Bernie says- not what the DNC is selling you from Social Media.

I don’t believe Facebook. It’s corrupt and admits that it is.

Facebook is full of bots and trolls. It’s not AMERICA. Forget social media. Ignore it, and replace it with TRUTH. I don’t believe the Facebook social media cesspool of lies, disinformation from other countries and mis-leading comments.

I believe Bernie Sanders.

I think Bernie is the Real Deal.

I think Democracy is in deep trouble. The solution is big CHANGE. Are you scared of Change?
I believe that in these times Democratic Socialism is good for American workers and students. It’s certainly not Communism. It’s the future for the working class.

The USA is broken, as is our sacred Democracy temporarily broken.
Search for Truth.
We already have socialism in the USA bailing out Wall Street and the super rich. How about the working class and the students who want a real future without debt?
What about them?

Ever wonder why the DNC is against Bernie?
Is Bernie against all the corporations funding the DNC candidate’s political campaigns?
Will Bernie hit their corrupt campaign pocket books?
Will he try to clean the system up?
Is that radical or divisive to America?

Bernie scares the hell out of the DNC. That’s why they’re acting this way right now. They are scared because their own power is challenged. If Bernie wins, they might lose it.
Is it time to get the money out of politics and put the truth back in?
Does this require Strength and Truth?

Bold changes. Bernie Sanders.

Do you think Democracy as we knew it is dying today?
That’s what I think.

If you are a loyal Trump supporter, please write NYA and tell your story. We will print that. We want to know about the positive side of supporting Trump.
We want to know your opinion. What is the positive side?

Was Donald Trump elected because of the negative effect on America of the DNC and the DNC policies of its Democratic candidates?
Did Trump supporters want change?
Do Bernie supporters want change?

It is-- was Time to change America. That’s what Trump supporters thought. That’s what I think.

Until then--
Stand with Bernie,
Stand for the workers,
Stand for the teachers,
Stand for the students.
Stand up for Climate Justice.
STAND for higher taxes on the super-rich to pay for all of the above!
Stand for The American Future.

Stand with Bernie Sanders.

Hey... while we're at it