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My friend who is a bred in the bone Democrat was insisting up until Hour Zero that President Biden was as fit as a flea. I didn't argue because it would have been unprofitable, merely hinted that there was nothing unusual about a very old man suffering a degree of mental and physical impairment.
But it does sadden me when an intelligent person allows political loyalties to blind them to the bloody obvious. An unquestioning faith is something that rots a democracy.
There used to be a thing called the floating voter. This was a person who followed politics without ever aligning themselves with a particular party- and when an election came round weighed up the alternatives very carefully. Politicians had to woo the floating voter. And the existence of this sizeable demographic kept the politician honest and credible. Too many broken promises and dirty tricks would cause the floater to disengage from the whole process. And that is what has happened, I think. The electorate is now made up of a minority of party loyalists and a majority who don't give a damn either way.
Our last election here in Britain wasn't won by Labour because there was any enthusiasm for Starmer and his gang, but because people were sick of the same smug old faces turning up on their TV screens day after day This isn't a healthy sate of affairs.
My friend has now transferred their faith to Kamala Harris. Biden- gone but not forgotten- is the past, while Harris is the very embodiment of rosy-fingered dawn.....
But it does sadden me when an intelligent person allows political loyalties to blind them to the bloody obvious. An unquestioning faith is something that rots a democracy.
There used to be a thing called the floating voter. This was a person who followed politics without ever aligning themselves with a particular party- and when an election came round weighed up the alternatives very carefully. Politicians had to woo the floating voter. And the existence of this sizeable demographic kept the politician honest and credible. Too many broken promises and dirty tricks would cause the floater to disengage from the whole process. And that is what has happened, I think. The electorate is now made up of a minority of party loyalists and a majority who don't give a damn either way.
Our last election here in Britain wasn't won by Labour because there was any enthusiasm for Starmer and his gang, but because people were sick of the same smug old faces turning up on their TV screens day after day This isn't a healthy sate of affairs.
My friend has now transferred their faith to Kamala Harris. Biden- gone but not forgotten- is the past, while Harris is the very embodiment of rosy-fingered dawn.....
