Posted on 05/27/2019 2:38:17 AM PDT by Kaslin
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has attempted a bipartisan message, pledging to bridge the deep divide in the country and reject the anger that he says is motivating some in his party. He asserted: "If the American people want a president to add to our division, to lead with a clenched fist, closed hand and a hard heart, to demonize the opponents and spew hatred -- they don't need me. They already have a president who does just that."
He realizes that many special interest Democrats don't like his "centrist" approach: "Some say Democrats don't want to hear about unity. That they are angry -- and the angrier you are -- the better. That's what they are saying to have to do to win the Democratic nomination. Well, I don't believe it. I believe Democrats want to unify this nation. That's what we've always been about. Unity."
Pollster Mallory Newall, when asked about the call to unity given the current partisan political divide, commented: "While I think calls for unity are important, particularly after a primary season and after a convention, I just don't know if in today's day and age. When again, going back to how completely polarized our society is, I don't know if people believe that we can do that."
Newall, research director at Ipsos Public Affairs, went on to disclose that while unity is important to Democratic voters, their top priority is to find the best candidate who can beat President Trump in 2020. With over 20 candidates vying in a combative nomination battle, unity will be even harder.
Why is the only thing that can unify Democrats defeating Donald Trump? Their party has been built on identity politics. Candidates campaign on what they can do to provide special benefits for blacks, the LGBT community, women, and the list goes on. Those groups often have competing interests with each demanding special laws and bigger government and the funds to support their promises. It's hard to unify what you have worked to already divide. Only hating Trump is a strong enough motivation to unify them.
Republicans, on the other hand, have always worked to avoid special interest differentiation. To the statement that "black lives matter" Republicans more likely respond with "All lives matter." Seldom is one group singled out for special programs or benefits. Instead, as indicated on our coins and dollars, "E Pluribus Unum" or "Out of Many One!" No matter the color of our skin, our gender, age, or ethnic background, we are all Americans, and all Americans deserve equal rights. Equal rights do not translate into guaranteed equal outcomes. Outcomes are to be earned not distributed by an overreaching government by taking from one American to give to another.
Obviously, citizens are left with two viable choices in any election-Democrat or Republican. Unifying one's own party to ensure a strong, winning campaign remains critical to both.
President Trump has his own challenge of unifying the GOP. He has delivered on many of his critical promises and worked hard to combat an obstructive Congress on other promises not yet accomplished, but his combative and aggressive style rubs many the wrong way. Will substantive progress in key promised changes outweigh his abrasive, New York style that rubs many Republicans and independents the wrong way? In past elections, maintaining a strong economy tends to be a primary factor for those undecided. If so, Trump wins, but that's for elections to decide.
On this Memorial Day, all Americans should be united in honoring all those who died that we might be free. The only other thing unifying all Americans should be working to secure our precious freedoms-the freedom of speech, religion, the press, peaceful assembly, and petitioning the government for a redress of grievances. Difference and the competition over products, services, ideas and politics is built into the very fabric of our republic. The winner of today is not guaranteed to win tomorrow. People on both sides of any issue are divided and motivated to make their case.
Division is what elections are about-you want your team to win, set the priorities, and drive needed change. I want the Trump team to remain in office. They are working to support and protect the earners and limit the takers from enacting more entitlement to take more. He's freed and revitalized the economy. He's lowered taxes, limited unnecessary regulations, fought socialistic entitlements for all but the most needy, and confirmed Supreme Court Justices who are committed to uphold rather that "reinterpret" the Constitution.
In any election, you're not really voting for a President; you're voting for the promises and priorities they deliver and for the people they bring with them to make it happen. The style or tweets of any given candidate is not anywhere as important as the team they put in place and priorities and principles that guide them. Understanding that should help determine who you choose to unite behind in the upcoming election.
This is good.
Normal America is busy trying to decide between multiple job offers and spending the extra cash in their paychecks.
The Trump Economy includes one *million* more available jobs than employees to fill them.
This is what matters to fly overs.
He would not have delivered on even a few of his promises had he been the kind of bland milquetoast politician most Republicans are. While DemocRATs are wrong on just about every issue, they are brash and obnoxious when it comes to getting their way. As a result, they have had a frightening level of success when it comes to ramrodding their agenda down our throats.
One of the reasons I love Trump is that he is unafraid to stand up for what is right. Instead of cowering when the left attacks, he defends and counterattacks. He is awesome!
“I will not engage in namecalling, you simply SOB” - Joe Biden
Never underestimate the power of hate. It has destroyed people and nations. The good thing is that it always loses in the end.
As far as being "rubbed the wrong way", if that makes a difference to anyone then they are pretty namby-pamby. It doesn't bother me if his personal style "rubs me the wrong way" as long as he's doing the right thing, standing up for liberty, defending life, preserving the Republic. Lots of things in life rub us the wrong way, we just should be mature and tough enough to push through that and look at the substance, and let the 'Rats complain about the rubs.
The next Republican Presidential candidate.
True, they are ALL sick...neurotic and sociopathic.
Hatred for President Trump s all the “unity’ the left thinks it needs for 2020.
Unity = solidarity = tired old union rhetoric
Biden can't seem to accept the fact that the era of solidarity and calling people that cross picket lines scabs is gone. Solidarity is an archaic concept that can't be viewed on a smart phone screen. The Cloud is the anthisis of solidarity
I think Bolshies could unite at being good citizens of Zimbabwe.
Excellent observation.
With all the problems Trump is getting fixed, hate is all they have. They just can’t find something for the people to hate about Trump with them so they make it up: his sex life, his finances, his attitude, his dislike of the media, his, so called, mistreatment of the trespassers on to American soil....and that is getting them made to look idiotic. And as fast as it blows up in their faces, they find a new one to try to stimulate the voters whether it makes sense or not or even has anything to do with the job we hired Trump to do. And the liberal politicians are not intelligent enough to understand that the public is seeing the actions of the lack of completion on their part for the successes we are going through.
The liberals have forgotten the words of one of their own, “My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.” Their way now is destructive, not productive. They hurt America, and then not heal her.
rwood
So the democrats hate their incorrectly perceived Trump’s hatred, and that is all that holds them together? Would this be the correct definition...
https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/cognitive_dissonance
-cognitive dissonance-
A conflict or anxiety resulting from inconsistencies between one’s beliefs and one’s actions or other beliefs.
The Democrats are the party of class, sex, gender warfare. All they have is hate.
Therefore, its in their DNA, so I believe whoever was Republican President would be getting the same treatment. Trump perhaps angers them more because he shoves it right back in their faces.
Funny, very few “Memorial Day” comments from many Democrats, nothing heard From Biden, Pelosi, Waters, Nadler, Schiff, Obama, Clinton, O’Rourke, Buttigieg, Harris, etc., etc. I guess these Democrats will do away with the USA military as soon as they get into political power...”SAD”!!!
Kinda like Israel and the Towelheads.
President Trump’s major challenge is ridding the GOP of the members of the DC UniParty!
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