You may have noticed that President Trump and the Republican Party are trying to demonize Joe Biden.
This is akin to demonizing a cream puff.
It’s taken from the playbook of “smearing your opponent by re-characterizing his greatest strength.”
Joe Biden is an unquestionably “safe” person, with abundant integrity. This means you attack him as dangerous and present him as untrustworthy.
Clearly Joe Biden is an imminent danger.
But worse than the attacks are the attackers, themselves.
Does anyone agree that this kind of sportsmanship—even in a blood sport like politics—is good for the American people: the preying on people’s basest fears?
In modern times, it’s a horrible trend, ever since Lee Atwater—George H. Bush’s Dark Knight—conceived the notorious Willie Horton ad to devastate Michael Dukakis. The Democratic Presidential candidate and liberal Governor of Massachusetts was annihilated during the 1988 Presidential Campaign.
It also worked very well in the 1930’s for Adolph Hitler.
As surreal as their thinking, but still not a threat.
It is a waste of time to fear a known-quantity, with a 44-year public record, who is running in the open against our current repressive political regime.
Better to question the integrity of the people launching these attacks, then draw your own logical conclusions.
On one side, there is a rabid hatred. On the other, a decent man trying to improve everyone’s lives.
Where is the danger?
It comes from the source, and not the target.
Certainly, you can see that from here.