My unpopular take for today is Joe Biden has done a good job as president.

[In It to Win It]

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My unpopular take for today is Joe Biden has done a good job as president. US inflation is similar to that in our peer nations, the job market is stronger, and inflation is almost entirely driven by pandemic and war-related factors that no US policymaker can control.

It’s just horrid rotten luck for humanity that a cascade of economic factors that all-but-ensure incumbent parties will lose elections hit at the same time that 1) the most powerful nation in the world has a two-party system; and 2) the opposition party is flirting with fascism.

[Just A Box Of Rain]

1. I disagree.

Joe Biden has not done a good job.

He's done a great job. I could not be more proud of my president.

The person of the hour in a time of enormous challenge.

[Docreed2003]

3. Agree 100%

Joe is doing an incredible job in the face of unending criticism. Where was this criticism of Trump for four years from the media?

[LoisB]

10. Totally agree and anyone who has been paying even a little attention should be able to see that.

[Kaleva]

2. Voters will turn out in record numbers to protect women's rights and fight against gun violence

[Docreed2003]

4. I truly hope so...

The country may well depend on it

[Kaleva]

6. This fall will inform us how much or how little people care about some issues

[867-5309.]

5. All but ensure we lose some control to an opposition party flirting with fascism

[usonian]

7. SPEAK TO YOUTH! MY GOODNESS

FIRST OF ALL. JOE BIDEN IS THE BEST.
WHEN WE GIVE HIM A SOLID MAJORITY, HE WILL BE AMONG THE GREATEST PRESIDENTS OF ALL TIME.

Otherwise:
https://democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=16766140
WHAT A GREAT IDEA

AFAIK,
They DON'T LISTEN to AM Hate Radio
They DON'T WATCH Fox Hate Television
They DON'T FOLLOW hate groups on social media.
They're trying to live their own lives.

And they're being gunned down by RWNutjobs.

HEY OLD FARTS OF 30 or so years (or lots more)
THIS IS THE FUTURE. It's THEIRS (see Jefferson Quote)
GIVE THEM ONE by urging them to vote.


Apologies for the CAPS. I am FIRED UP by this idea.
and I'm a dad who wants a future for my daughter and others!

and otherwise, GOTV GOTV GOTV.
https://democraticunderground.com/100216380145

Posted in response to Kaleva
https://democraticunderground.com/100216765977

This fall will tell us how much young people care about women's rights, mass shootings, and climate
We may see record turnout.

Or maybe not.

I'm not going to try and predict which way this will go but I'm hoping these issues will result for a record turnout of progressive and moderate young voters so Dems can solidify control of Congress and we can make gains at the state level.

Jefferson: according to metro.us
https://www.metro.us/can-the-constitution-be-changed/

Did the Founding Fathers intend the Constitution to be changed?

Thomas Jefferson did. In fact, he believed that the Constitution should be updated every 20 years. He expressed this belief in a 1789 letter to James Madison.

“No society can make a perpetual constitution, or even a perpetual law,” he wrote. “The earth belongs always to the living generation. They may manage it then, and what proceeds from it, as they please, during their usufruct. They are masters too of their own persons, and consequently may govern them as they please. But persons and property make the sum of the objects of government. The constitution and the laws of their predecessors extinguished then in their natural course with those who gave them being. This could preserve that being till it ceased to be itself, and no longer. Every constitution then, and every law, naturally expires at the end of 19 years. If it be enforced longer, it is an act of force, and not of right.”

That one of the Founding Fathers considered a Constitution older than 20 years “an act of force” could come as a shock to some “strict Constitutionalists.”

That's a bit over the top, IMO, especially since we HAD AWB, which was designed to "sunset", which it did, perhaps costing hundreds of lives to be lost.

Regardless of the constitutional issues, young people CAN rewrite laws.

And we need to do so now. Write "bulletproof" laws to protect rights that the Supreme Klan can't "nullify".

[Taraman]

8. I concur

I first voted for George McGovern way back when. I think Biden has been one of America's very best presidents.

He doesn't speak well (like Obama or JFK), and he's a geezer like me, but he makes good decisions and has a good heart. And he knows how to pick good people and trust them.

He's the real deal.

[MineralMan]

9. I agree. Now, we need to tell that story to every

Democrat in the country and ask them to vote for every Democrat on the ballot, so Joe Biden can get stuff done.