Joe Biden Presidency thread *Please read OP - Threadbanned Users Added 4/5/21*

The difference is one was and still is utterly without an iota of evidence (Trump in 2019) whereas Biden is expressing concern about what the GOP are trying and succeeding so far to do in advance of 2022/2024, which is a clear effort to rig the elections in their favour and the evidence is there for everyone to see.

Like for example in Georgia where in one county , the GOP are trying to close all but one voting site , along with reducing access to mail-in voting thereby making it really difficult to vote.

They even say it out loud - Ken Paxton , the Attorney General for Texas just said on Bannons podcast the other day "We (the GOP) are done if everybody can vote" .

More people voting means the GOP lose so they are doing everything they can to suppress turnout in Urban areas especially ,where they don't usually pick up many votes.

Reasonable points in isolation, but in the last election most of the votes cast were mail-in which they are also severely cutting back on.

So they are reducing polling stations , reducing access to mail-in and early voting and removing huge numbers of people from the voting registers for various (and sometimes spurious) reasons.

It's the cumulative impact of all these changes that just make it that bit more difficult to vote than it should be.

Nothing they are doing could reasonably be described as increasing agency and making it less difficult for people to cast their legally entitled vote.

And it most certainly has absolutely ZERO to do with "Election Integrity and Security".

Aside from the fact that Bernie Sanders is an Independent and not a member of the Democrat Party , has he been censured? has he been primaried? has been removed from committees etc.?

There's a pretty long list on the GOP side where the answer to most/all of those questions is a resounding yes.

Equally how many GOP people have simply walked away in the last few years rather than fight the Primary they knew was coming because they spoke out against Trump?

No Political party is immune from this kind of stuff ,but the current GOP are orders of magnitude beyond anyone else in their demands for absolute fealty to Trump , not the party - Trump.

Realistically , the US Political system is more like 4 or possibly 5 distinct groupings right now.

In the GOP you got a Far-right where the Marjorie Taylor-Greenes and Paul Gosars live , you've then got a more traditional GOP where Cheney and Romney types exist.

With the Democrats you have what's called the "far left" in the US , but are really not especially "left" at all in a global context where AOC et al are , you then have the more traditional Democrats of the Biden type.

There's an argument for a 5th grouping somewhere around the middle with moderates from both sides , but that's a stretch.

With a normal electoral system that's what would happen organically and you'd have coalitions etc. forming alliances to control the House and Senate.

It would also force them to actually find consensus and compromise on Policy as it would be a requirement to create working majorities.

The ever increasing gap between the "sides" within the parties on both sides means that the ability to actually govern and pass meaningful legislation is becoming more and more unachievable for both sides.

Hard to see any way it gets better though.