Reading Obama

It's 2007 in America and bad investments about bad loans are crashing the economy.

“For the public, it was tempting to see all this as a righteous comeuppance for greedy bankers and hedge fund managers; to want to stand by as firms failed and executives who'd drawn $20 million bonuses were forced to sell off their yachts, jets, and homes in the Hamptons. I'd encountered enough Wall Street executives personally to know that many (though not all) lived up to the stereotype: smug and entitled, conspicuous in their consumption, and indifferent to the impact their decisions might have on everyone else.

The trouble was that in the midst of a financial panic, in a modern capitalist economy, it was impossible to isolate good businesses from bad, or administer pain only to the reckless or unscrupulous. Like it or not, everybody and everything was connected.”

A Promised Land by Barack Obama p. 178.

Reading this book, written by a man who wants to be a good leader for the American people, is a great antidote to all the threats and chaos perpetrated on the American people by Trump. There was a financial crisis and Obama chose to work with people, not obstruct solutions merely for a campaign talking point. 

"The "border crisis" is not an emergency if you're willing to wait until after the election to fix it." Twitter

They have to be possessive about that issue, because it's just a distraction, but it's a useful political distraction. Biden has been tougher on the border than many progressive would prefer, he's more hawkish with Israel than progressives would prefer, but if you think not voting is going to send him a message, you're mistaken, it just gives Trump, who is fading, a chance.