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The Dem platform appears to be primarily buzzwords (e.g., shift from nursing homes to "homecare" even though the latter is expensive and often unreliable). It appears to have been slapped together by a bunch of party hacks whose ideas come mostly from MSNBC and CNN.Is this what we want for a government?

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Democrats always over emphasize the political posture of their preezy du jure. I remember not to long ago they were attempting to sell Barry Obama as the next Abe Lincoln or John Kennedy. Although neither of those two gentlemen had Barry's well known reputation in the men's bath house's of Chicago. But I digress. The true connection between FDR and Joe Biden is the fact that they both are handicapped. FDR had a physical handicap that kept him in a wheel chair and Joe Biden has a mental handicap that keeps him in a fog.

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Biden is a doddering fool and his handlers are economic imbeciles. We need a snappy name for the group of low-IQ leftists who are actually running the federal government for the time being.

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Both Biden and Harris are party hacks wholly owned by Big Tech. Big Tech is really running the government these days and the Democratic Party is its main subsidiary.

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Are you really surprised by Biden underwhelming 'vision'? The dude has been in Congress for almost 50 years and has only passed legislation to increase incarcerations. Even Robert Gates, former CIA head, said, "Biden hasn't been correct about one foreign policy issue ever". Biden has long been bereft of imagination. SO, why on earth are your expectations so high at this point in time?

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I thought this article gives a good take on what Biden is actually doing...see the link and the key part of the article:

https://digitaledition.orlandosentinel.com/infinity/article_share.aspx?guid=eea17767-4b95-4872-8769-dd280931f461

In private calls with Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., whom he vanquished in the Democratic primaries, he collects ideas from the party’s liberal wing. With Sen. Joe Manchin, the centrist West Virginia Democrat, he keeps tabs on his caucus and its slim congressional margins. And in conversations with Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., the minority leader and a longtime negotiating partner, Biden appeals for bipartisan support, even as he warns that he will not wait for it indefinitely.

“Biden is a politician who stays inside of the moment,” said Rashad Robinson, president of racial justice organization Color of Change, which was skeptical of Biden, but now praises his work. “He stays inside of where the cultural context has moved.”

To the consternation of some Republicans, Biden is approaching politics differently from recent Democratic presidents who believed that support from the opposing party would provide a bulwark for their policies and political standing. In the 1990s, Clinton espoused triangulation, a strategy that forced liberals to settle for moderate policies by cutting deals with Republicans. Former President Barack Obama spent months trying to win bipartisan buy-in for his policy proposals.

Both strategies were rooted in political fears that began in the Reagan era: Doing too much to assuage the party’s left flank could alienate voters in the middle who took a more skeptical view of government, leaving Democrats unable to build coalitions for reelection.

Biden and his administration have embraced a different philosophy, arguing that difficult times have made liberal ideas popular with independents and some Republican voters, even if GOP leaders continue to resist them.

The shift leftward, aides say, reflects a recognition by Biden that the problems facing the country require sweeping solutions, but also that both parties changed during the polarizing years of the Trump administration. Gone is the Senate where Biden spent decades, legislating like former President Ronald Reagan, who liked to say he would call any negotiation where he could get 70% of what he wanted a win.

“There’s a difference between President Biden and Sen. Biden,” said former Sen. Chuck Hagel of Nebraska, a Republican who served for decades with Biden and supported his presidential bid. “Even a difference between President Biden and Vice President Biden. He’s the president now and he’s got the responsibility of trying to move this country forward. Yes, he wants to do it in a bipartisan way if he can. But the fact is these problems aren’t going to solve themselves.”

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Today worrying yourself sick about liberals and conservatives is just as stupid as worrying yourself sick over the Whig Party in 1853. Politics will be an entirely different thing as Whites come to REALIZE that they are a threatened minority. That is what is happening now. Diversity is a code word for White Genocide.

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