JVL. Love you man. Here's my thing: I fully get the elegance of the symmetry you're drawing out here. Respectfully, tho', I'd be okay with untwinning these 2 men, functionally, for the lesson here, if for no other reason that isn't it a bit comparing apples to oranges? (And I wouldn't take the time to write this out unless I feel like th…
JVL. Love you man. Here's my thing: I fully get the elegance of the symmetry you're drawing out here. Respectfully, tho', I'd be okay with untwinning these 2 men, functionally, for the lesson here, if for no other reason that isn't it a bit comparing apples to oranges? (And I wouldn't take the time to write this out unless I feel like the way we frame this for readers, for posterity, is really important).
What Pence succeeded at in one moment in time was to temporarily bar an individual tyrant.
What Biden was left with was to stop tyranny itself.
Or it's allure. The seductivity of the tyranny the tyrant left behind. And that isn't something even ten Bidens could do. Not by 2021, when the body politic had already grown profoundly sick.
Take cults: you can remove or banish or kill a cult-leader.
But the cult itself is harder to kill, which is - to me - something for which Biden should never be blamed b/c no one human being can do. What I think should be said here is that it is actually a herculean accomplishment that Biden, while verbally fighting against the mythology and criminality of Trumpism, put his head down & worked, worked, worked, to make concrete improvements to everyday people's lives through sound legislation and initiatives. By bettering lives in the hope that, where there is less poverty and brokenness and deprivation, there will be less of the species of desperation which might drive people into the arms of a tyrant.
What else could any one of us do?
Anyway - having said all this - no shade at all to what you're trying to explain, in this article. I love how you make me think, how you make all of us dig deep instead of gliding on the surface of things. So grateful for your mind.
JVL. Love you man. Here's my thing: I fully get the elegance of the symmetry you're drawing out here. Respectfully, tho', I'd be okay with untwinning these 2 men, functionally, for the lesson here, if for no other reason that isn't it a bit comparing apples to oranges? (And I wouldn't take the time to write this out unless I feel like the way we frame this for readers, for posterity, is really important).
What Pence succeeded at in one moment in time was to temporarily bar an individual tyrant.
What Biden was left with was to stop tyranny itself.
Or it's allure. The seductivity of the tyranny the tyrant left behind. And that isn't something even ten Bidens could do. Not by 2021, when the body politic had already grown profoundly sick.
Take cults: you can remove or banish or kill a cult-leader.
But the cult itself is harder to kill, which is - to me - something for which Biden should never be blamed b/c no one human being can do. What I think should be said here is that it is actually a herculean accomplishment that Biden, while verbally fighting against the mythology and criminality of Trumpism, put his head down & worked, worked, worked, to make concrete improvements to everyday people's lives through sound legislation and initiatives. By bettering lives in the hope that, where there is less poverty and brokenness and deprivation, there will be less of the species of desperation which might drive people into the arms of a tyrant.
What else could any one of us do?
Anyway - having said all this - no shade at all to what you're trying to explain, in this article. I love how you make me think, how you make all of us dig deep instead of gliding on the surface of things. So grateful for your mind.