• Tinidril@midwest.social
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    8 months ago

    I strongly disagree. A little inspirational leadership would go a long way to calming my nerves about a potential second Trump administration. Biden is incapable of winning a mandate for a second term, and we are all lucky that Trump seems capable of losing anyways.

    It’s easy enough for some voters to be happy with a competent administration. But, for a lot of Americans, that looks like an extremely privileged point of view.

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      8 months ago

      That’s older politics. Speeches made the difference. Now is the dis track and highlights. The tweets and the memes. Sad but true.

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        8 months ago

        I said “leadership”. Flowery speeches and clever memes are fine, but what’s his vision, and how do we get there? At best, he offers minor tweaks to a system that’s starting to implode.

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        8 months ago

        Speeches were the memes back in the day. “Ask not” and “tear down this wall” and “read my lips” and so on.

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          8 months ago

          Oh they definitely were memed. But I don’t think speeches resonate as they once did. I personally find people reference memes and jokes more than policy and facts. Maybe it’s who I work with.