First up, a couple of examples of no-clue short political essays by writers that overlook large aspects of what they wrote about.
Over the past month, I've read a couple of short pieces in surprising places about politics that have been somewhat irritable and indicative of shallow essay writing.
The first was in one of the short essays in the front of The New Yorker magazine and it focused on Biden's age and what a hardship it was and all through it, the author completely ignored how this is such a media-driven story. The writer also completely ignored the media's role in the furtherance of this media-pushed story and tried to blame the focus on everything other than the lifeblood of the "if it bleeds, it leads" media and its role in the focus on Biden's age.
Secondly, another essay was on The Daily Beast's website and it was written by a young Black female. She walked out this opinion of how the Democratic Party is failing to engage young white males and needs to reach out to them more because of their feeling of being ignored. Now, here is my complaint about this (and please don't take this as some sort of whiny white male bitching because white males are losing some of their social and political standings after owning the playing board and rules all this time) - I am a very liberal white male and a person I believe to be more aware of racial and social fairness issues than the general public, but at the same time, I also feel the blanket hostility that white males do sometimes feel when it comes to our shifting, evolving and changing politics and the opinions of our changing politics. I mean, I can't express how many times I have heard many loyal and life-long, sincere Democrats utter how they believe the Democratic Party has left them and their concerns behind. And many of these people are strong labor union people. Whether one agrees with these changes or not or if they are fair or not, this hostility toward the white male is present and is felt by these people.
Still, my point is how this young lady is oblivious to how this aspect of the politics of the left is creating this need for the Democratic Party to make this push for the young white male without perceiving how this disaffected feeling by these people is reflected in these same changes.
Lastly, right now, the Democrats need to start the push of framing why Biden will not debate Trump if he is the Republican nominee. Other Democrats, other than Biden or his people, early on need to start illustrating reasons why Biden will not debate Trump. They need to get out in front of this and persuade the American people that a person like Trump is not fit to stand on a presidential debate stage and go from there. They need to focus on things like he is an indicted alleged criminal, a rapist, and a habitual liar and there is no need to give this man a stage so he can express his ever-proven lies again and again. But they really need to hammer down how Trump is unfit to share such a prestigious stage and lay it on thick, but I doubt they will. Then, later, Biden really needs to come out and suggest something like, "It has nothing to do with fear or my fake cognitive decline, but instead, I've debated him once, kicked his ass then, and would kick his ass again, but he simply lacks the integrity and honor to share a Presidential stage with anyone."
My Dad used to always claim that the general public just doesn't like to see a mean and nasty Democrat. I sort of believe this a bit, but that is more in the past. It seems that in today's political world, with the manipulation of the vapid wasteland of social media and its impact on the American mind, an aspect of a mean and nasty Democrat is just about what we need these days.
And I will suggest this about the wonderful environment of the DBIS when it comes to ideas, thoughts, and opinions - how it works here is how it should be. That, when a person, unless they have become a complete asshole with opinions of complete assholerly (hell, no one will even be rude enough to point out that "assholery" might not even be a real word), throws out their thoughts, others here chime in so well when it comes to offering their own opinions or variations of opinions, that allows for ideas to bloom and be expressed, molded and discussed in thoughtful ways and that is a good thing.
