Middleman implies neither Republican or Democrat.

So, no… I won’t be surprised at all. I’ve known exactly what he is since the beginning. I’ve known where we’re headed since high school and ccollege. I’ll be 50 next year. I didn’t vote for him last time, won’t be voting for him this time. Whether it matters or not.

Trump is getting almost 100% of the blame for our current situation and he certainly has much to answer for. But there’s no way he could have gotten here by himself. And he’s not the only problem right now. Removing him will not reverse things. It will only pause it until the roots of the problem are corrected. It will do nothing if you don’t remove his enablers with him.

We’ve got a long hard road ahead of us. A long hard road.

A Biden win is not a magic cure for fixing the structural damage to our democracy and governance. Not by a long shot.

(I’m not entirely sure this is what you meant by your comment but…)

Sorry to burst your bubble but if you think a Biden win will make everything go back to normal overnight, I’m afraid it’s you who will be disappointed. I have to remind you that before Trump we were already experiencing immigrant issues, police brutality, widening income disparities, crushing student loan debt, massive failure of the educational system (Trump himself is an example of this), loss of industry, gig economy, etc. So things weren’t that awesome for everyone before, very few were actually doing well actually despite what Wall Street says. That’s not a dig on Obama because it was like that before him too.

This has been a loooong time coming. It will take a looooong time to correct.

I’m just being real. I hope Biden wins. I just don’t think he will be a miracle correction to the erosions of the last 40 years.

As a society we really need to rethink things. And then commit to doing the hard work.