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I honestly don't get the hate against Biden. From what I've seen, he's old and he's done a whole lot of good, more than the average democratic president.
Him being the choice over Trump should be an obvious, nearly anyone over Trump is the better choice, so what the hell is wrong with these people wanting to vote trump or not vote at all just to stick it to Biden?
There's other good answers here, but there's a more basic one.
Biden simply doesn't have the charisma of Obama or the outlandishness of Trump. The reason he was an effective leader in the Senate was because of his ability to coordinate people and get shit done.
It's what he's done as President as well. It's good organizational leadership, but it isn't flashy.
Good organizational leadership and not flashy is exactly what we need rn. I only wish we weren't at risk of it ending so soon
I strongly disagree. A little inspirational leadership would go a long way to calming my nerves about a potential second Trump administration. Biden is incapable of winning a mandate for a second term, and we are all lucky that Trump seems capable of losing anyways.
It's easy enough for some voters to be happy with a competent administration. But, for a lot of Americans, that looks like an extremely privileged point of view.
That's older politics. Speeches made the difference. Now is the dis track and highlights. The tweets and the memes. Sad but true.
I said "leadership". Flowery speeches and clever memes are fine, but what's his vision, and how do we get there? At best, he offers minor tweaks to a system that's starting to implode.
Speeches were the memes back in the day. "Ask not" and "tear down this wall" and "read my lips" and so on.
Oh they definitely were memed. But I don't think speeches resonate as they once did. I personally find people reference memes and jokes more than policy and facts. Maybe it's who I work with.