The Presidential Frontrunners Are a National Setback

It is only halfway into 2024, and there have already been two severe weather storms across the U.S. that have killed dozens of people, but there is a larger storm brewing on the horizon. 2024 is a leap year and an election year where it seems we might be taking either a leap nowhere or a giant leap backward. 

Folks, we have no viable candidates for president.  

In 2020, people waited hours in line at the polls, not necessarily to vote for Joe Biden, but to vote against Donald Trump, a leader so bad he tried to overthrow the same government he was in control of, and honestly voting against evil is not nearly as much a vote of confidence as voting for good. Biden peacocked to the polls in a fashion that his incremental lack of cognition could not even undo, with the air of “at least I am not Donald Trump,” being his prettiest and most prominent feather.  Joseph Robinette Biden’s approval rating sits at an abysmal 33%, which is the lowest approval rating for a president since George W. Bush. When the guy who had to get his brother to help him steal an election is your peer…, well, that’s all that really needs to be said.

According to Politifact, so far, Joe Biden has only kept 27 % of his campaign promises, broke 1% and either compromised, stalled or is still working on the remainder. Trump’s record saw 23% of his campaign promises kept, 22% compromised and a staggering 53% broken. Obama, the presidential golden boy of our time, however, had a rating of 47% of campaign promises kept, 27% compromised and 23% broken. So even though Biden has been able to keep his promises better than Trump has, even still with a year left, he is just not a candidate that is moving enough to inspire people to get out and vote for him. Trump’s fan base, on the other hand, does not care about numbers. Hell, half of them can’t even count, so it really does not matter how much he does for them as long as their foes (all non-white people) are vanquished or eliminated from this country. 

Let’s not forget that in the Iowa caucus earlier this week, the number one issue for a landlocked state that is literally over 1000 miles away from Mexico is immigration. In a land known for its vast farmland, you would think that migrant workers would be secretly embraced and climate change would be publicly decried, but no. When you sit back and think that a racist, rapist, treasonist—who might actually serve time in prison is who is the frontrunner for a party—you cannot have too much hope in that party or its constituents.

The impending possibility of the world coming to an end, whether from a nuclear holocaust or the sun crisping us to death, is not nearly as important to the dueling septuagenarian and octogenarian who have spent the bulk of their lives in the 1%. Trump, a billionaire who spent his real estate career bankrupting himself and smaller businesses, and being a racist slumlord, cannot possibly be the person who represents the little guy, but unfortunately, for dumb white people, he does.

Biden, the same person who said on the popular urban radio show The Breakfast Club, “if you have a problem figuring out whether you’re for me or Trump, then you ain’t Black,” isn’t the candidate of the people he fashions himself, either. The AAVE use by a white president who grew up in Scranton, PA, and Garden City, NJ, is a nice touch, but not nice enough to secure the Black or youth vote.  Younger and left voters want change and results, and at least Obama and Trump had slogans that appealed to their voter base, progress and racism, respectively. Whether the Democratic party, who is hellbent on being the glamour girl of leftist politics without actually listening to the left, acknowledges it or not, the people want things and when they give you their vote, they have a reasonable expectation that those promises will be fulfilled. 

People want marijuana legalized federally, people whose tax dollars go to the slaughter of children, not only want that stopped but also to make sure their children’s education will be comprehensive and paid for. People whose tax dollars subsidize health insurance for a country that also facilitates a program which sponsors every Jewish young adult in the world’s ability to take a 10-day trip to Israel, if they so choose, also want health insurance. People want to go to the grocery store and not have to wonder if they have enough money for food.

People are already tired and the candidates we have to choose from are even that much more exhausting.