Time to Heal— Let’s All Become Joe Biden
By: Brian Kean
Tags: Politics, Healing, Election 2020, Trump, Joe Biden

President-elect Biden is in a very unique position. A good place in history is already ensured for him simply because his predecessor was such a tragic and criminal failure.

Joe Biden could do literally nothing but show up for the next four years and thanks to the shadow of Trump, he’d go down as one of our nation’s most effective leaders.

As much as I love Elizabeth Warren, and believe in her progressive vision, a Trump-torn America would have struggled to deal with her. In a sense, we lost her because she is too good. Senator’s Warren’s creation of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was one of the most effective tools for combatting income inequality and that’s why it became such a lightning rod for lobbyists and the right. News Corp worked tirelessly to turn the CFPB into a poster-child for leftist government overreach. Republicans have managed to so skew our reality to stupid that when someone like an Elizabeth Warren comes along we can’t elect her lest we upset them.

While I want to pose the question, why should we care what stupid thinks? We are obligated to do so for a number of reasons; first and foremost, what if we, in our self-inflating righteousness, are missing something? Often when so devoted to a cause, to the merits solely of our own voice, we can miss some pretty obvious stumbling blocks on our way just because we are so confident.

I was an outstanding centerfielder in high school (and pretty good pitcher). I had a scoutable-talent for catching the baseball and releasing it in no longer than about a half of a second. Few dared tag up on me but one day, I was too cocky and the ball skipped off the top of my mitt bouncing about a hundred feet off of my head. Tell me that story and I will say the guy was a bad outfielder. Forever after, I would be that guy; but I was damn good outfielder and it was my overconfidence in myself that resulted in my undoing.

Secondly, and simplistically, we are not an authoritarian state regardless of what Trump and many modern-day Republicans want. Just like the over-the-top lawlessness and, well, fascism of Trump had no place in our society least of all because so many had actually voted against him in 2016, we cannot force upon his current or past supporters a Warren-type candidate. Note, I don’t consider Bernie Sanders even in this political mock-up. He wasn’t a serious candidate and his fanatical followers were actually more harmful to the cause than they were good.

Sander’s people, whose supposed love for America was so great, voted against Hillary in many states throwing the election to Donald Trump. This was a Sophie’s Choice moment, really, and I have no patience for the bogus rationalizations. Many either sat on their hands; or, as we reported in swing states, voted for Trump to protest the lack of institutional love for Bernie. I have been a diehard Warren follower since 2007 and yet when it went to Biden and then the vice-presidency to Harris, for the sake of America — for the sake of the mission — I accepted it.

Donald Trump has done damage to our nation that really cannot yet be calculated. One of the main reasons we can’t actually get down under the hood to see just what the hell is messing up the engine, is because seventy million Americans voted for him and they won’t let up open the hood up.

Many actually accepted the vileness, the criminality, and the fascism. A lot of those people just don’t know better — intellectually lazy people with zero sense of civic duty. They think watching Fox is comparable to being a good citizen. This is the foxified part of our nation and sadly no matter what we do, the vast majority of them will never even accept our compromise, Joe Biden.

A small number of the seventy million, however, will accept Biden because he is the president. They will disregard Fox News as much as they can in a world where it is like Gospel and respect the title if not the man. It is these Americans for whom a Biden presidency is happening. There might be, say, ten or twenty million of them who will eventually accept Biden. If they bring another five million to the cause of America — and not just to tribe — then we have a chance of breaking the spell that Trumpism holds over so many today.

Joe Biden’s a Good Guy

You make up all the stories you want about Biden, but he is an upstanding human, an amazing father, a good husband and a responsible and devoted American — none of these adjectives can be applied to Donald Trump.

Fox will — and is going to — attack him, his son, his wife’s choice to be called “Dr.” but little will ever stick. Joe is just too good. He’s been attacked and vetted so many times, Jesus might have more skeletons in His closet. We know what they are going to throw at him, the hyperboles and historically impossible rants — Hugo Chavez, wow! After four years of Trump, however, I have developed a cool talent for laughing hyena-like in public places when I hear Republican stupid (otherwise known as RS) and this makes me feel really good — try it.

What we cannot do is fight without each other. My dear progressives, we are not one step away from becoming this mecca of progressivism you may think we are — Trump was so poisonous to the cause that we digressed easily back to a year 2000 level. We need to rebuild to reach 2016 and then try to accelerate our cause to 2020 and beyond. Just by lying down in his bed at night in the White House, Joe Biden will move us slowly forward — don’t get selfish and put your issues above those of the rest of the nation. We can do this if we remain united. If you want save an owl, save the forest first.

Or, as Spock said, the needs of the few or the many outweigh the needs of the one.

Joe Biden does not have to do much to be great. If he never uses Twitter, I would be ready to put his face up on Mt. Rushmore — you know the place, where Trump imagined he’d one day be.

As John Kennedy so memorably said that day in Berlin standing at the wall, Ich bin ein Berliner (I am a donut) — he actually did say donut because he added the article ein — but we all know he wanted to say Berliner (a resident of Berlin); going forward, we all must become, for the sake of healing America, Joe Biden.

Today, as write this before you, ich bin Joe Biden (I am Joe Biden).