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Jan 23·edited Jan 23

Sorry but you guy's missed the mark with this one.

What we have is Biden, a tired traditional establishment candidate that could never make it to the general election in past decades. Obama rescued him because people were afraid his inexperience would scare traditional voters. His answer was Biden. He's run and now (apparently) running again against a guy that terrifies many in the middle two thirds of both parties. His VP is so incapable that she couldn't get more that a few percent of support in her own party primary. Nobody's looking at her as a replacement, as would be the normal path.

On the other side, Trump, he really is a third party candidate that has managed to wrest power away from the Republican establishment so he can use that infrastructure to run and operate a government. He recognized that a true third party candidate has no realistic chance so he looked at the two parties and crafted his platform to appeal to the one he thought he could overpower. Both sides of the establishment are deathly afraid of him. He threatens the power they both now share but have grown accustomed to. He's also a loose cannon, because of the juvenile and narcissistic side of his personality that seems effective at making some overseas adversaries think twice.

Here's where we do agree. What we have right now is a mess, with no clear path to a more sane choice. Either or both of these two may not even be running next fall for obvious reasons.

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