Policy differences between Trump & Biden

[Snarl]

For me, the political situation is not about Trump or Biden.

Screw the personalities.  And screw the political parties.

People should look at the issues they believe are important, and seek out candidates of any stripe who take an acceptable position on those issues.

This is where I have a serious problem with the Democrats these days.  Their party platform either embraces, or, fails to condemn, absurd and destructive policies like "defund the police" or "open the border".

Yeah, on any given issue, there is room for give and take.  But, by committing themselves to the path of "resistance" (vice loyal opposition) in 2016, the Democrats have increasingly given the nod to policy propositions that I believe are so unrealistic as to be completely dysfunctional.

That's not government, and that is not politicking.  That is the knee-jerk response of 1960s radicals trying to burn down the ROTC building on campus, except this time the ROTC building is the functionality of government (oh, that despised authority) at federal, state, and municipal levels.

The Republicans are a problem as well.  And this gets to my bottom line: the political party system in the USA is broken.  That system can no longer produce candidates that are attractive to much of the public.  The parties themselves are beholden to hidden outsiders who pull the strings, including the determination of party platforms, even when those platforms are clearly destructive in their intent.

For those of you who think Trump is the problem, you've missed the real problem.  The real problem is where our dysfunctional political party system goes after Trump's time in office is finished.  And, if you rue the fact that Trump is the President, then you should be pointing your finger at the political party system that made his election possible.  NOT ONE of the career politicians will even hint that the party system is broken.  That alone is a serious issue, because we all know the first step in improving a bad situation is REALIZING a bad situation exists.

So, yeah, my personal feelings about Trump or any other personality are not important.  At this point, I think it is the Republican Party under Trump who have the most realistic platform.  I would much prefer that the two parties could get up to some cooperation and produce bipartisan solutions, but that won't happen in the near future.

I don't normally quote someone's entire post ... can't help it this time.

The detestable thing about our political party system ... is that the Political Party can't kick someone out ... anymore than they can keep someone out.  And ... that's how we wound up with a 'third party candidate' as POTUS (which is absolutely fine with me).

A two-party system is a typical end-state.  An inflexible party winds up with diminishing interest over time and fades.  Unfortunately, with people given an option of just picking their party candidates and walking away from the polling booth, you can't get away from crappy 'winners'.  What would work better would be hiding party affiliation from everyone at the polling booth.  And then ... if one doesn't get enough of a percentage of the vote ... then that office (along with all of the employees who work in that office) goes unfunded and gets shuttered until the next election.

What the American Political system suffers from is an inability for a new party to get legs under it (remember the way the Tea Party was 'handled' by 0bama's IRS?).  They'd come out of the woodwork if the last sentence of my previous paragraph became reality.

Another major problem we have is Senate Confirmation.  Let the damned People vote independently.  We don't need super influential positions filled based on personal affiliations with the President or which of the two political parties holds majority.  We should be voting for a SecDef ... and if the President fires him ... ensure that action creates a wake of devastation ... like all commissioned officers are immediately fired as well.  That would sure shake some shit up.

Sorry for ranting in your thread @"beez":

I don't think Biden's policies are gonna matter.  The dude's on Death's doorstep (and President Trump might be as well).

President Trump's 2d-term policies are known only to him.  And, that scares me a little.