I think when he’s alone with whatever thoughts still rattle around in his addled brain, Joe Biden really knows that the job of President of the United States is far too big for him. I think he realizes that he has royally screwed up the country and that it’s not Putin’s fault, or Fauci’s fault, or COVID’s fault. It’s not even Trump’s fault. It’s his. And I do believe in my heart of hearts, that he knows this.
That’s why he’s come up with the strategy that he’s come up with.
Let’s examine this, shall we? First of all, Biden knows he needs the younger voters that were promised the sun, the moon, and the stars during the 2020 campaign. So, he signs an executive order that is still being hashed over in the courts, to take away up to $20,000 for some of their college debt. This may have the desired effect with the folks 18-30 years old, but for the rest of America, it’s pissing them off. I don’t think it will have the desired effect.
Second, he’s signed another executive order saying that anyone that’s in federal prison on marijuana charges is pardoned. Now, on the surface, that’s probably going to excite younger voters a little more than older voters, but is it going to have a far-reaching effect? I doubt it. Cannabis is legal for medical use in 41 states (including the District of Columbia). In 23 of those states, it’s legal for not only medical use, but also recreational use. Only North and South Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, Indiana, Wisconsin, Kansas, Nebraska, Wyoming, and Idaho still have it illegal. And Biden’s EO is more flash in the pan than real. That’s because there are only 94,678 people serving time for marijuana crimes (as opposed to the federal prison population of 158,000+ who are in federal prison right now). The 94,000 people in jail for pot also includes other crimes which aren’t part of the pardon.
Democrat strategists are hailing Biden’s plan as a way to juice up the base when there is little to excite them. Oh, there’s the whole Dobbs v. Jackson Supreme Court case. But most polls show that’s now down to about 5% that say they’re excited about voting that issue. It’s still the economy, inflation, crime, and the border. All of the issues Democrats seem to care about are at the bottom of the heap.
In the end analysis, we’re less than three weeks from election day and Democrats have nothing more substantial than to say that the Republicans a) want to ban a woman’s right to choose (there’s no truth necessarily to that…it’s to become a state issue, not a federal issue), and b) Republicans want to take away Social Security and Medicare (also not true…they want to examine it’s effectiveness every five years). Very little else in this election shows people swinging to the Democrats. If anything, Dems should be thanking the Supreme Court for giving them something to talk about in their ads!
Carry on world…you’re dismissed!