2022年7月3日在文学城上发了一个帖子，"2024年拜登可以骄傲地退休"，阅读者甚少，评论为零。在2024年大选即将*或已经)开始之际, 把这个帖子翻出来，弹掉尘土重读，除了附录中的一些事外，人们还在谈论同样的问题，只是有些问题变得更明显了，如拜登的年龄。在这个年龄上退休，会令人怀念；在这个年龄上强努，会令人提心吊胆。
前纽约州州长 Andrew Cuomo 本是个不错民主党候选人人选。被 Me Too 了。
(2) For Obama, One Trump Term Wasn't a Big Worry but 'Eight Years Would Be a Problem’
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-09-30/obama-on-trump-1-presidential-term-is-okay-but-8-years-would-be-a-problem-l8t1lk89#xj4y7vzkg
ShalakoW 发表评论于
MoatCity : ... it takes only ONE ambitious politician to change, or even topple it. This person is Trump.
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I cannot agree with you on that.
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Politicians' job is to serve public's needs, though their reputation in general is not flattering. Trump is by no means a politician, let alone an ambitious one, and Trump's reputation is much worse.
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The system by nature indeed has a lot of flaws, but that is not major problem with Trump in. The major problem is the system is not designed for people like Trump who are no honorable men. They despise the "norms" that have served as the guardians for the system to function properly and take advantage of the flaws for their own interest.
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For this system to work, it takes no majority of the public to be wise enough to see many steps down the road, but instead a majority of the public who can tell the simple difference between good and bad when things are placed right before their eyes, as we can easily tell Trump's Chinese supporters have become fewer and fewer, and those who remain loyal to him have been much less enthusiastic when voicing their support, if ever openly at all.
That's why often the system may seem self-defeating at first but pull itself off eventually. It's a process neither ideal nor avoidable when a democratic system is at work, but it is also why Trump has to fall in the end,"by chance or nature's changing course".
With this regard, I still hold an optimistic outlook of this system, though with caution.
回复 'MoatCity' 的评论 :
This country does indeed have the most stable and mature political system on earth, so much as it has sustained the most outrageous and malicious attacks from inside out by Donald Trump constantly for more than six years, and still been doing fundamentally fine, for now. But being most stable and mature doesn't mean being absolutely invincible, with Obama's estimation of Trump's one term presidency as the limit.
Still, the America is much larger and better than Trump, and deserves a much better president than Donald Trump. And all the elections ever since Trump's mysterious win in 2016, the midterm elections in both 2018 and 2022, plus the election in 2020, have proven so, for they have displayed a solid losing record of Trump. The election in 2024 will be of no difference.
Americans, most of them, are no suckers, those who believe otherwise are.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg could have chosen to retire when Obama was the president, and it would have reduced the chance of conservative super majority in the Supreme Court (overturning Roe vs Wade). Her personal ambition took the priority over her political beliefs and her agenda. Anthony Kennedy chose to retire when Trump was in power, which helped Trump adding one more conservative judge.
I am afraid that Biden will also choose him own personal ambition over his own political belief and ideology, and will in the end hand the next presidency to his opponent -- thus hurting his legacy.
Only time can tell!
ahhhh 发表评论于
能让拜登放弃竞选连任的，是CNN的假民调，和背后老板的旨意。别洗了。
MoatCity 发表评论于
US is facing historically serious challenges. There is a chance that Trump may go through all his legal issues unharmed (after all the selected Jurors could be partisan, the "republican' jurors choose not to convict in all cases), and he may win the election - there will be revenge and he could declare himself to be the emperor.
Biden's personal ambition could ruin democrat's chance in 2024.
Republicans seem to think their belief and ideology are more important than the democratic system, they clearly prefer believing Trump, support him to destroy the US democratic system.
Really really hard to predict, what would happen coming Nov. 2024.
ALways thought this country has the most stable, and mature system, and now it seems that it also has many flaws, and it takes only ONE ambitious politician to change, or even topple it. This person is Trump.
ShalakoW 发表评论于
能让拜登放弃竞选连任的，只有他的太太 Jill Biden.
也许这次再得新冠后，老太太有所顿悟。病好之后，找个合适的机会对拜登说，"Honey, let's go home." 拜登宣布2024年不竞选连任,告老还乡， 给民主党一些时间来挑选自己的候选人。
