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re: #623 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

I’ll be honest here. I really think a lot of people underestimated Biden as being the best to beat Trump. He wasn’t my first choice but with the way things turned out, I’m happy that he’s our nominee. Because it’s not just Joe. It’s about who he will have on his team and it’s whose opinions he will value too.

Abso-friggin’-lutely. One of the big flaws with this year’s Dem primary race was (IMO) the obsession with personalities (and the BernieBro cult, but I digress), and the pigeonholing of ideological issue-flogging.There was a studied ignoring of political process and partisan structure in how the governing of this country actually operates. By everybody but Joe Biden, who has spent his life studying and operating within those structures. A huge flaw and drawback for the “revolutionaries”, who can only see “politics as usual” and tend to fall - in mirror-image of the Trumpsters- into Great Man idealizations; but (as it has turned out) what I hope will be a tremendous asset in managing post-Trump America.
Will a President Joe Biden fight hammer-and-tongs for a left-wing agenda? Probably certainly not. Will a President Biden stand in the way of (discourage/obstruct/veto) any progressive legislation a D Congress might send him? Probably not, either: and the latter
- the way things are supposed to work in the US - is probably about as best as we are going to able to do.
Still a VAST improvement over the Incompetence Fascism of Trump and the GOP.
GO JOE!!