Posted on 07/31/2020 5:00:35 AM PDT by karpov
When unemployment and poverty rates hit record lows in late 2019, while retirement accounts and average household incomes surged to record highs, Joe Biden understood that general-election voters would never go for Bernie Sanders’s tax-and-spend socialism or Elizabeth Warren’s command-and-control version. Mr. Biden also bet, taking longer odds, that the Democratic establishment and ultimately the Democratic primary voter, desperately wanting to retake power, would reject his primary rivals as well. So Mr. Biden offered a nicer version of the status quo. “Nobody has to be punished,” he told donors in June 2019. “No one’s standard of living will change, nothing would fundamentally change.”
Despite Mr. Biden’s shaky start, he surged in South Carolina once Democrats faced the reality that the alternative was Mr. Sanders, a self-identified socialist who was on record saying positive things about Venezuela, Cuba and the Soviet Union. The establishment swung behind Mr. Biden and the primaries were over.
et after he won the nomination as the only “moderate” in the race, the new world of the coronavirus shutdown revealed a new candidate who wants “not just to rebuild the economy, but to transform it,” as Mr. Biden said in a May address. In rapid succession he adopted the Sanders platform, the cornerstone of the Warren candidacy, and the most radical racial agenda in recent U.S. history.
Mr. Biden’s dramatic political transformation has exposed what many have always suspected: Moderate Democrats aren’t socialists unless they think they can adopt socialist policies and survive politically.
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Their real ideology is basically “power”.
From the beginning Joe Biden has promised raise everyone’s taxes. He lies when he says your standard of living will not be affected and when he says it’s not punishment, he thinks everyone can afford it because he and his son are millionaires.
Dopey Joe can’t tie his shoes. He uses Velcro.
The normal process is, run to the edges/base in the primary, then tack to the center in the general. Leave it to slow Joe to reverse it.
How far Biden has moved left since winning???
Not one iota. Due to his mental condition, he has not way of knowing left from right, up from down or back from forward.
Now his handlers are fully aware of where they are pointing that old turd long before he ever won the primaries.
Indeed.
I honestly do not think Biden is smart enough to have thought any of this through as suggested. He strikes me as one of the dumbest people ever elected to Congress, right up there with most of the Congressional Black Caucus for sheer ignorance and stupidity.
He’s been a puppet for a long time. His dementia makes it even less likely he can think for himself.
The notion of him thinking strategically and how to position himself is ludicrous. Maybe he can think about how to position his bib to avoid dribbling saliva down his necktie, but that’s about it.
Levin is on Hannity tonight talking about this.
Holy Sh*t!! This needs to be talked about this more!!
Federal takeover on steroids. WOW.
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