Trump can’t tell the truth; never admits he’s wrong. He never apologizes for anything. He’s a bully and attacks anyone who doesn't share his views. He mocked the handicapped & attacked Gold Star families whose children died serving our country. He sides with dictators against his own intelligence agencies. Currently, Trump's incompetence has resulted in nearly 800 cases of coronavirus in over 30 states with 26 dead.... and those numbers are growing.

Right now, Trump is WAY WORSE than Biden. This election won't be won on just on policies... but also bringing intelligence, unity and dignity back to the nation.

-C!

Dignity, right, like cursing at and threatening to physically attack a voter who disagrees with you.  Anybody else remember before the Trump era when that episode alone would have ended Biden's run?  Heck, Howard Dean got knocked out of an election for screaming once at a rally. 

Edited to Add:  I get that you hate Trump.  I do too.  I've been saying for six years that the man is a human stain.  I get it.  But someone has to win an election against him to get rid of him.  And with Biden's erratic behavior and mental lapses, I don't think he's the guy to do it.  Trump's specialty is dragging other people into the mud with him to demotivate the opposition's voters.

In sum, Dukakis said no, but the way he answered the question was like an automaton, completely devoid of feeling and emotion.  For many, he lost the election right then and there.  Whatever your views on the death penalty, when asked a question like THAT, most Americans want your first reaction/answer to be "no, I'd kill the sonovabitch MYSELF!"

Biden thought that he was being accused of something that was not true.  He reacted with passion and emotion - granted, I could have lived without the cursing, but it hardly make it less likely that I will vote for him in November.  

Marc

From what I've gathered, with the exception of maybe one or two people, the regular posters are at least 40-something or older. So stating that you old enough to remember something post-1985 is just weird flexing.

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They think Trudeau is a liberal fool and that Jagmeet Singh is a progressivist project of a tyrant dictator because if he had his own kingdom where he could impose his own rules, we'd see his true nature. Socialists, liberals, progressives, etc., have adopted social democracy. They just disagree about the means to reach their goals. Canada is taken by these factions. They end up stagnating economies with Marxist social democracy ideas. They're using the term "big center", a recent slang to refer to the "center", mostly liberal progressive social fabian democrats. In other words, socialists. They think center is left.

But how do you feel, Mason?

A little social democracy goes a long way, in contrast to unfettered capitalism. When it comes to unfettered capitalism, consider the case of the United Fruit Company, and its behaviour in Latin America during the 20th century. The goals of the capitalist corporation were massively at adds with the wants of the general populace, with the welfare of the environment, with the government and even with its own workers. The corporation existed to make money for itself and would trample on anything in its way. And, paradoxically, the upshot response was often communism.

For example, in Guatemala. A democratically-elected government in Guatemala in the '50s undertook a programme of land reform, expropriating vast tracts of lands and redistributing to the non-land-owning peasant folk. One of the most-affected landowners was the United Fruit Company. What happened? The US government intervened, removing the sovereign government in a CIA-assisted operation. A military junta took control. The labour unions were crushed, the land reforms reversed. Democracy in action!

Communist Cuba germinated from the same seed, though the outcome was different (not for want of trying on the part of the US).

Socialism definitely has a bad name in the US, but I'm sure propaganda plays no part in this.

HOWEVER, I do think there is some truth to my original way of thinking.  When you massively assault communist countries with embargoes, sanctions, travel bans, and punish third-party countries with the same when they dare to deal with them, it is more than a little disingenuous to crow about how "communism doesn't work".  

Marc

I keep hearing that socialism leads to social democracy which leads to communism.  I'm interested in whether this is just paranoia or has some truth to it.  Things like Trudeau wanting all news agencies and small outlets to have a government license fuel this perception. The totalitarian dictator wants to censor free speech. His plan was more than socialist, it was bolshevik. Very Sovietish. It's not enough he gives taxpayers' money to the MSM. Now he wants to shut up and shut down opposition. He's using the state to silence the journalist Ezra Levant. That's how it's done today. Not through a bloody coup like in 1917. They do it little by little through social democracy.