techstepgenr8tion wrote:
I didn't vote for laughs but this year 2020, TBH, both choices are equally unimpressive. I'm actually not worried who wins this time around because it's clear that neither is going to craft public policy that would make things any more or less messed up than they are right now. The biggest thing is getting our heads out of the bucket with existential risk, social media, etc., a lot of issues that have to happen well below the level of presidential politics and most of these are issues where if you actually get your political party to handle it and by the time all the solutions get screened through their lobbyists you'll be sorry you did.
I agree except fot the point that neither of the candidates has the ability to mess up things anymore or less than they are now. I believed Trump would be hindered by the whole apparatus from messing things up entirely, and in a sense, they did, I mean, they didn't let him nuke that hurricane .... but he seriously did mess up things more once Covid hit. I don't think Biden can change this for the better anytime soon, and having listened to Mark Blyth, I understand that it's not clear how a different president would have reacted... but Trump made mask-wearing a partisan issue and THAT is making things a lot worse than they needed to be.
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