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Yavin4

(35,447 posts)
Tue Jan 23, 2024, 10:21 PM Jan 2024

There is no objective argument to vote for Trump over Biden.

Some of the arguments against Biden:

1. Biden's age.
Trump will be 78 years old by election day. If he wins, he will be president at the same age that Biden is now. Trump is not a "younger" alternative in any real sense other than strictly chronologically.

2. Gaza
Trump will either have the exact same policy towards the Israeli/Gaza conflict and/or be even more supportive of Netanyahu. There will not be any material change worth voting for other than making a horrible situation even far worse.

I can respect the opinion of those that still wouldn't support Biden bc of Gaza, but my question to them is, what then is your strategy to end the conflict? Politics is compromise. The opposite is conflict. Are you willing to engage in massive civil disobedience to stop the war? Are you willing to go to jail? Are you willing to put your life on the line? That's what Civil Rights protestors did. Gloating over a Biden loss won't save a single Palestinian child.

3. The economy
At the end of 2022, very smart, very highly paid people in the world of finance all but guaranteed the worst recession in the history of mankind in 2023. That didn't happen. In fact, the opposite did. The economy grew. UE stayed low. Wages grew. The stock market is posting record highs. Inflation is declining, but it's still a problem. It's a hangover from the pandemic when corporations learned that they could raise prices and get away with it.

Trump has no plan, no policy, no anything to reign in inflation, and neither does the Republican party.

I could continue and talk about Trump's indictments and possible convictions. i could get into his double impeachments, etc. Bottom line is, there is no objective, cogent argument to vote for Trump over Biden.


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There is no objective argument to vote for Trump over Biden. (Original Post) Yavin4 Jan 2024 OP
Politics is as much about emotions as it is about objective reasoning. TwilightZone Jan 2024 #1
Yes. He has a very strong argument... a cult. keithbvadu2 Jan 2024 #3
Tear it all down is the argument lame54 Jan 2024 #2

TwilightZone

(25,496 posts)
1. Politics is as much about emotions as it is about objective reasoning.
Tue Jan 23, 2024, 10:31 PM
Jan 2024

Probably more so.

Different people have different priorities. That list is just the tip of the iceberg where the GOP is concerned, and most of their reasons are either fabricated or imagined.

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