Biden the Quiet
Not a viable 2024 re-election campaign strategy.
This morning I realize once again that ‘I am not of this world.’
Friends say it's because I was weaned on gin and printer’s ink.
August 5
I woke up this morning after a fitful night of sleep punctuated by the sound of a 300-odd motorcycle flash mob fueled by Facebook to a social media influencer - instigated riot in Union Square, New York City. One promised an 11:30PM muffler revving cacophony on Chicago’s Du Sable Drive, the other, a free giveaway of “gear.”
Who are these people, I ask from my Barcalounger.
I am not of this world, so I muse. When the tussle emerged today around Judge Chutkan in the Trump January 6 trial issuing a ‘protective order,’ aka not a gag order, I asked, who are these people? Free to invade the ‘mindscape’ in the name of free speech, they are mocking a social fabric while manipulating the public reaction: jury tampering while looking the other way.
So, America will muse. Or rather: take action. As an Iranian feminist activist interviewed recently on MSNBC said, ‘It’s difficult for you: in a democracy you have a choice. In Iran, we are fighting to have a choice. What we are fighting for is clearer.’ (1)
So, we muse: is this a good time for ‘Biden the Quiet’?
No.
We are in a Medieval Faire/Dinner Theater. We eat red meat; we watch men in tights riding horses. We swill hard cider. What’s not to like?
On the other hand, we have a former President facing 78 felonies spread across — so far — five jurisdictions and possibly facing 100 more felony charges if the RICOH side of Fulton County DA Fani Willis’ prosecutorial brain has a go.
And his popularity numbers keep climbing. America apparently is not satisfied that the Medieval Faire is over… 700 odd years ago.
Time to go home — wherever home is.
Who are these people?
‘Biden the Quiet’ could start speaking for those of us who do not have a ‘home’ to go to. Kids with underwater student loans. Women looking for women’s reproductive health care providers. Migrant detainees. Military veterans missing paychecks and mental health care.
It’s a long list.
Mr. President, stop talking about the economy… ‘it’s always about the economy’… and start getting ‘noisy’ about people.
Provide a better reason for people to vote for you. A place people call ‘home.’
August 6
Notes
1- Masha Amini, author, “Zan, Zindagi, Azadi,” (For women, for life and for liberty), featured on “Saturday with Velshi,” August 5, MSNBC
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