Biden's Farewell Speech

[liberty]

According to Pew research in 2022, USA ranks 31st globally for voter participation. That's pretty awful considering we are meant to believe we are the world's greatest democracy.

You can't make people care, they either do or they don't, if they don't care it's better that they do not vote at all. I don't want someone going in the voting booth, close their eyes, and just pulling a lever. If you want people to show up at the polls and make a blind selection all you have to do is offer free beer and you'll get a lot of participation.

[liberty]

Sue--the power and influence of the oligarchy can only increase without an opposition and I think that is what Biden is referring to; being a bit trite, we can either light a candle or curse the darkness (or, even worse), become indifferent to it.

In my lifeie we have survived McCarthy and the Vietnam war and turned the tide of minority rights by bipartisanship, and the dixiecrats, the anti communist idiots, the love it or leave it groups and their ilk were as bad as anything Trump spawned (And FWIW, their leaders were much more intelligent than Trump and his minions). We just have to keep pushing against the tide. Short of doing this, we can start a violent response or just give in--and i don't think either of those are acceptable.

What is wrong with being an anti-communist? You don't think they murdered enough people to deserve resistance?

Well Big, you're avoiding the question, now why would you do that; it can't be because you're too busy with your magic fingers you should be able to type a message in seconds. Come on now give me two seconds and answer the question.

[Big RR]

What is wrong with being an anti-communist? You don't think they murdered enough people to deserve resistance?

Nothing, given the proper circumstances. It's being an anticommunist idiot (you know, the self aggrandizing idiots Joe McCarthy types who would just as easily be anti-American if it suited their personal agenda) that I was referring to. You know, the people who thought nothing of trampling on the rights of many Americans by manufacturing conspiracies .