It is Wednesday afternoon, July 6, 2022.
I want to make something very clear to anybody reading this.
I think Joe Biden is not perfect. I think he is flawed, and I think he has made mistakes.
I still think he was a better choice than Trump, and I’m not going to change that opinion.
I look back at the times that Democrats were elected into the presidency in my lifetime. I know very little about LBJ’s campaign in 1964. I know he beat Barry Goldwater by a pretty significant margin. Considering Goldwater’s position on the Civil Rights Act, I doubt I could’ve ever supported him. Goldwater represented the new conservative in the GOP. Nixon would win in 1968, after his very effective dirty tricks campaign (hello Roger Stone!) helped George Wallace split the Democrats – Nixon won with 43.4% of the popular vote, but Humphrey and McGovern combined pulled in more than 9 million votes more than Nixon.
Nixon’s administration is a matter of record. He screwed up, got caught, ran away to California, and left Ford to solve the problems. Ford couldn’t solve the problems and left a pile of crap for the new President elected in 1976, Jimmy Carter.
Carter inherited 14 barrels of crap from his GOP predecessor. It would prove to be a trend.
I like the idea of leaving things better off than you found them. Reagan and Bush were great for the wealthy of America, but real wages stagnated, and Reagan chose to ignore a pandemic for years. Bush tried to clean up problems previous administration (see “Iraq”… Sadam Hussein rose to power with American backing). The economy slipped into a recession, and the governor and law professor from Arkansas was voted into office.
Clinton inherited about 6 barrels of crap from his GOP predecessor. Not as bad as Carter, and he had a couple of changes to the economy that created a very quickly expanding economy. He had his problems, no doubt, but I think it’s safe to say he left the country better than he found it – at least Jeff Bezos, Steve Jobs, and the guys over at Google probably thought so.
Then we had Bush – the W. 9/11, the continuation and expansion of our ongoing issues in the Middle East. Then the market collapsed in 2008, and the country fell into recession.
Barack Obama was elected in the fall of 2008, and he inherited 14 barrels of crap, too, although it might be more accurate to round up closer to 15.
Eight years of Obama got things turned around. The economy expanded at an almost predictable and steady rate. Call me nuts, but I like slow, steady, and predictable. Less drama.
In the fall of 2016, we, the American people, made the biggest freaking mistake in the history of democracy when we elected a reality TV host who was playacting the part.
Two impeachments later, we have Joe Biden.
Joe inherited 22 barrels of crap from Trump. How anybody could ever claim Trump left the country better than he found it. He crapped on it and then used the Statue of Liberty’s dress to wipe his ass.
Biden is not perfect, but the pile upon pile of residual crap he’s had to deal with could fertilize a desert.
And guess what is going to happen?
In 2024, I see a GOP candidate winning.
We’ll be right back here dealing with barrels in 2028. I’m pretty positive that after the GOP sits in the White House for 4 years, we’ll all be wondering what happened to our freedom. It will only be the treasured possession of the gilded set.
I hope the world is treating you better than deserve.
Peace y’all.
