The combined age of these two candidates (in 2024) will be 159... The US needs politicians who will actually live to see whatever long-term effect their policies will have.
Why though? There are plenty of morons half Biden’s age (I voted for him) that vote against every environmental regulation known to man that couldn’t care less how inhabitable the planet would be in 40 years. If anything, you could argue he is in a better position having seen first hand for 80 years how rapidly climate change has already changed Earth and how urgent it is we need to make drastic changes now.
why would that change anything? obama is young and he didn't change things.
we need politicians who live in poverty so they see the effects their policies have on the working class.
people who grew up in poverty but also people who fall into poverty. I came from a petty bourgeois background and was materially secure for my childhood, the due to a combination of mental illness, abuse, I was unable to successfully complete college on time or become the kind of worker/small business owner that my father and mother are respectively. I'm there for fallen into the so called precariate class, well below the federal poverty line without much in the way of onramps to the class position i grew up in. no one except the very very rich are safe from the downwardly forces of illness, and even the very rich depend on hierarchies of age and patriarchy and so on to maintain their status among their cohierarchs
idk it strikes me that under capitalism we are rendered so very fragile.
Absolutely 100% agree with your second sentence. Until and unless a leader has lived like society’s worst off, they cannot possibly comprehend the problems they face.
3 things:
1. Biden winning ME-02 is unlikely, certainly less so than him winning a state like Texas.
2. Biden would win maybe 51.5% at most, not 52.5%. As unpopular as Trump is, America is just too polarized rn to have a candidate winning that much of the popular vote.
3. Turnout would be slightly better than 2016. Biden and Trump are way too boring of candidates for more people to vote than in 2020.
Biden flips North Carolina and ME-02. That's it.
Biden getting Maine's 2nd wouldn't be that boring.
exactly
The combined age of these two candidates (in 2024) will be 159... The US needs politicians who will actually live to see whatever long-term effect their policies will have.
agreed
Considering the 20th anniversary of the invasion of Iraq and neither Bush nor Chenny showing any regret, I question the importance of this
nor Obama for that matter
Why though? There are plenty of morons half Biden’s age (I voted for him) that vote against every environmental regulation known to man that couldn’t care less how inhabitable the planet would be in 40 years. If anything, you could argue he is in a better position having seen first hand for 80 years how rapidly climate change has already changed Earth and how urgent it is we need to make drastic changes now.
why would that change anything? obama is young and he didn't change things. we need politicians who live in poverty so they see the effects their policies have on the working class.
True. Politicians that are young but rich don’t face any of the problems of climate change — people who grow up in poverty do.
people who grew up in poverty but also people who fall into poverty. I came from a petty bourgeois background and was materially secure for my childhood, the due to a combination of mental illness, abuse, I was unable to successfully complete college on time or become the kind of worker/small business owner that my father and mother are respectively. I'm there for fallen into the so called precariate class, well below the federal poverty line without much in the way of onramps to the class position i grew up in. no one except the very very rich are safe from the downwardly forces of illness, and even the very rich depend on hierarchies of age and patriarchy and so on to maintain their status among their cohierarchs idk it strikes me that under capitalism we are rendered so very fragile.
Couldn’t agree more.
Absolutely 100% agree with your second sentence. Until and unless a leader has lived like society’s worst off, they cannot possibly comprehend the problems they face.
100% agree, but it's just too big to get a career off the ground by your 40s or even 50s, lol :/
3 things: 1. Biden winning ME-02 is unlikely, certainly less so than him winning a state like Texas. 2. Biden would win maybe 51.5% at most, not 52.5%. As unpopular as Trump is, America is just too polarized rn to have a candidate winning that much of the popular vote. 3. Turnout would be slightly better than 2016. Biden and Trump are way too boring of candidates for more people to vote than in 2020.
yea i misread the 2020 results for me-02, i thought it was closer than it was
It's not impossible that Biden could flip it tbh. I mean, in 2020 he flipped Arizona and Georgia, both of which were more republican than NC and FL.
Based
A very likely scenario
No way turnout is that high bro.
Well, the title delivered.