{"id":7456,"date":"2024-11-03T09:42:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-03T14:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/?p=7456"},"modified":"2024-11-03T09:42:03","modified_gmt":"2024-11-03T14:42:03","slug":"yes-but-what-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/index.php\/2024\/11\/03\/yes-but-what-about\/","title":{"rendered":"Yes, But What About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Disqualified<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s almost impossible for me to think about another Trump Presidency.&nbsp;&nbsp;The Insurrection of January 6<sup>th<\/sup>, 2021 is absolutely disqualifying.&nbsp;&nbsp;I find it a failure of the Biden Administration and Attorney General Merrick Garland&nbsp;&nbsp;for not holding&nbsp;&nbsp;Trump accountable for that, at least, not yet.&nbsp;&nbsp;Beyond that, a President who openly admires dictators:&nbsp;&nbsp;Putin, Xi, Kim, Orban, and Erdogan, should tell us exactly what we need to know about his \u201cstyle\u201d of government.&nbsp;&nbsp;That\u2019s another automatic disqualification from holding powerful office in the world\u2019s greatest democracy.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An American leader who routinely, chronically, and habitually lies should not be President. And finally, a man who is clearly an abuser of women, should not be in our highest office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So for me, it\u2019s tough to get to an \u201cissues\u201d conversation.&nbsp;&nbsp;Trump is damned far beyond any \u201cfavorable\u201d stand on the issues allows.&nbsp;&nbsp;But I have friends, people who I think of as \u201cgood folk\u201d, who will acknowledge all of the above, then say, \u201cYes, but what about?\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;And they then follow with a litany of \u201cissues\u201d where they see Democrats as failing, and Trump as \u201cthe answer\u201d.&nbsp;&nbsp;So let me try to deal with a few of those issues for them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Economy<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By most measures:&nbsp;&nbsp;the stock markets, current inflation, current employment, even wages; the Biden administration has done a remarkable job.&nbsp;&nbsp;It\u2019s easy to have a memory gap of the Covid pandemic, but it did wreak havoc on the world\u2019s economy.&nbsp;&nbsp;Trade came to a near-standstill, unemployment was high, and there were supply shortages from toilet paper to construction lumber.&nbsp;&nbsp;First Trump, then Biden realized that the government would need to \u201ccarry\u201d the economy for a while.&nbsp;&nbsp;There were all of the PPP business loans, school and government monies, and, of course, the personal government checks for thousands of dollars (first accompanied by a letter with a \u201chuge\u201d Trump signature.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And that process worked, better than any other country in the world.&nbsp;&nbsp;But with all of that \u201cgovernment money\u201d pushed out there was an inevitable and foreseeable consequence:&nbsp;&nbsp;inflation.&nbsp;&nbsp;The Biden administration first goal was to get Americans back to work.&nbsp;&nbsp;The Infrastructure Plan, the Inflation Reduction Act which worked on climate issues, the American Rescue Plan which cut child poverty in half, the Chips Act committing America to building modern electronic necessities; all put people to work and made our lives better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The second Biden goal:&nbsp;&nbsp;to get control of inflation without the \u201cfeast and famine\u201d of a recession.&nbsp;&nbsp;Many economists said it wasn\u2019t possible, but here we are today.&nbsp;&nbsp;Yes, prices are higher than in 2019, but so are wages.&nbsp;&nbsp;Yes, we went through a time when price increases were stunning; but the current inflation rate is under three percent.&nbsp;&nbsp;Biden \u201clanded\u201d the \u201cboom economy\u201d without a recession.&nbsp;&nbsp;And all of that happened in the past four years \u2013 Covid economic fall, recovery, boom, inflation, control.&nbsp;&nbsp;There\u2019s been a steady hand on the \u201ctiller\u201d, and Harris will continue that process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Human Rights<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;I firmly believe Americans should have the right to make their own moral choices.&nbsp;&nbsp;Some of my friends believe in the \u201cright to life\u201d, and I respect their right to do so.&nbsp;&nbsp;What I don\u2019t respect is the claimed right to tell others how they should believe in that moral issue.&nbsp;&nbsp;Donald Trump directly led to the stripping away of that intimately personal choice.&nbsp;&nbsp;And it\u2019s not only with abortion; he represents a Nation where LGBTQ Americans will have to \u201chide in the closet\u201d.&nbsp;&nbsp;Our modern science reveals that gender is a complex mix of genetics and biology.&nbsp;&nbsp;The horrific Republican ads showing young teens sitting on hospital gurneys waiting for a \u201csex change\u201d, are so opposite reality, it\u2019s amazing that they have any impact at all.&nbsp;&nbsp;But they do.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump espouses a radical theory that says there is \u201cno distinction\/no advantage\u201d in American gender, race, or ethnic identity.&nbsp;&nbsp;All Americans know that isn\u2019t true.&nbsp;&nbsp;The Trump administration not only tried to stop programs that advanced equality regardless of differences, they affirmatively defend the right of \u201cwhite males\u201d to maintain a political and economic advantage.&nbsp;&nbsp;Those who agree with him, are clinging to a past where America was a \u201cwhite majority\u201d nation.&nbsp;&nbsp;The near-future is different, no matter who wins the Presidency.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We are a nation of many cultures, genders, races, religions and ethnicities; and will become more diverse not less.&nbsp;&nbsp;It is the duty of the President to pursue \u201cE Pluribus Unum\u201d; out of many, one.&nbsp;&nbsp;Donald Trump represents division not unity, discrimination, not inclusion, the past, not the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Immigration<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Could Biden have acted sooner to control the Southern Border?&nbsp;&nbsp;Yes, but if he did, it would have destroyed any possibility of a legislative agreement for a long-term solution.&nbsp;&nbsp;And Biden\/Harris actually achieved a \u201cglobal\u201d deal, even with the wide divide between the political parties.&nbsp;&nbsp;The US Senate voted for a \u201ctough\u201d border deal, and the US House of Representatives was poised to do so as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That is, until Donald Trump intervened, demanding that his acolytes in the House \u201ctank\u201d the deal, in order to preserve the issue for his campaign.&nbsp;&nbsp;And the obedient House members did exactly that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Afterwards, the Biden\/Harris Administration took what executive actions they could, and the situation at the border improved.&nbsp;&nbsp;But the opportunity to make a long-term solution to the Southern border was destroyed by the political needs of one man:&nbsp;&nbsp;Donald Trump.&nbsp;&nbsp;He put his own needs ahead of the Nation, another act that should be disqualifying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The World<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Biden administration has strengthened American alliances throughout the world.\u00a0\u00a0NATO is stronger than ever before, and helping Ukraine hold a expansionist Russia at bay without committing American forces.\u00a0\u00a0We are checking Chinese expansion, and expanding American influence.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What about Afghanistan?&nbsp;&nbsp;Biden followed Trump\u2019s plan, that released thousands of Taliban fighters back into the field.&nbsp;&nbsp;He made a choice; get out of a decade\u2019s long losing struggle in the country, or redouble our troop forces and efforts.&nbsp;&nbsp;The US withdrawal was ugly, but the price to be paid for decades of failed US strategy.&nbsp;&nbsp;Biden \u201cbit the bullet\u201d for the Nation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What about the Middle East?&nbsp;&nbsp;The United States is sending mixed messages.&nbsp;&nbsp;The Administration is defending Israel\u2019s right to respond to the October 7<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;attack, and balancing Iranian responses against Israel.&nbsp;&nbsp;But there is a strong force in our Nation who are telling Netanyahu to do whatever he wants to the Palestinians, without the \u201ccheck\u201d of American restriction.&nbsp;&nbsp;That force is Donald Trump and his allies, who told Netanyahu to ignore Biden and wait for Trump\u2019s election.&nbsp;&nbsp;They have intentionally undermined US strategy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Closer<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Has the Biden\/Harris Administration been perfect?&nbsp;&nbsp;Of course not.&nbsp;&nbsp;Do they represent a full embrace of a changing America?&nbsp;&nbsp;Absolutely.&nbsp;&nbsp;But the most important fact is that Kamala Harris is committed to the American Democracy, to the US Constitution, and to the freedoms we profess to believe in.&nbsp;&nbsp;Donald Trump represents an authoritarian threat greater than any the United States has ever faced.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And that threat \u201ctrumps\u201d all of the other issues.&nbsp;&nbsp;We can come back to argue about economic changes, foreign policy, and how America will handle our future; later.&nbsp;&nbsp;Right now, we have to defend democracy \u2013 and the only way to do that is to send Donald Trump home, and elect Kamala Harris.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Disqualified It\u2019s almost impossible for me to think about another Trump Presidency.&nbsp;&nbsp;The Insurrection of January 6th, 2021 is absolutely disqualifying.&nbsp;&nbsp;I find it a failure of the Biden Administration and Attorney General Merrick 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