Can Biden Reunite the Country With His Mild Manner?
In response to this article on Biden’s attempt to reunify the country, someone noted: Soaring pleas for unity won’t work, but maybe concrete achievement will.
First, there is a problem with “concrete achievements,” i.e., that both sides take credit for them.
More to the point, though concrete achievements are always welcome, a simple cessation of meanspirited language will go a long way. Biden will usher in a period in American life during which we don’t go out of our ways to be ass***s to one another just for sport. If there is anything we know about him, especially at this stage in his life, it’s that he doesn’t stir up partisan rancor for its own sake.
This could be fabulously effective.
Based on the events of the last few days, it’s possible that the next four years could be as good as the previous four were bad.
Most of these people live paycheck-to-paycheck, and millions make starvation wages. Now a couple of hundred are getting carted off to prison. This hasn’t really been a bonanza, has it?
Great theatrical productions, even those based in satire, carry such thunderous emotional impact that they can make entire audiences tear up in pure joy.
No one knows who wrote the words at the left, but it’s most certainly a sincere statement, one that is echoed by America’s allies around the globe.
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The set of charts below is really cool, IMO. If nothing else, it shows what a good job the developed world is doing in phasing out coal, and bringing in renewables.
OK, the main prediction I made about the political theater surrounding Donald Trump, i.e., that he would be expelled from office before finishing his term, didn’t come to fruition.
