We believe our nation’s leader should bring out the best in us. President Donald Trump has not lived up to that task.
Under his leadership, Americans have become so divided it’s to the point there’s little middle ground for compromise.
We yearn for thought-out policy to handle complex problems, not dictums tweeted out in the wee hours of the morning and that flip-flop from hour to hour.
As a candidate, Trump ran as a “disruptor.” Almost four years later, the country is exhausted from the chaos.
Joe Biden as president will be the steady hand on the tiller.
With a career in public office, Biden has spent a lifetime of putting service above self. His 36 years in Congress and eight years as vice president to President Barack Obama have built a foundation of relationships both here and abroad.
On Day One, Biden would start mending relationships torn asunder by Mr. Trump as well as alert Russia’s Vladmir Putin and other dictators that their days of privilege are over.
Most importantly, with Biden as president, all Americans will have a better chance at life by directing Congress to expand the Affordable Care Act, open eligibility to Medicare at age 60, set us on a path of economic equality by rescinding the 2017 income tax cuts that overwhelmingly favor the wealthy, and recognize climate change for the danger it is.
Though Biden is Mr. Trump’s senior by several years, he’s light years ahead in recognizing the dangers carbon emissions pose to the Earth’s atmosphere and how we need to steer our resources into renewable energy such as wind and solar.
AS A ROLE model, Biden’s moral compass is set true north, whereas Mr. Trump’s is unmoored.
From the get-go, Biden released his income tax returns, a standard practice for current-day candidates as a means to ensure their private business dealings are above board. Mr. Trump continues to fight their release in court.
Biden is a vocal critic of racism and bigotry, and as such has selected Kamala Harris, the first Black woman and Asian-American on a major presidential ticket, as his running mate.
Trump meanwhile waffles, saying there are “good people” on both sides of the issue.
And in regards to leading the country through the health crisis of the COVID-19 pandemic, President Trump hid his knowledge of its seriousness from the country for a full two months while assuring Americans it “will just disappear.” That failure of leadership cost the country valuable time in readying for what has proved to be a deadly crisis. Instead of the president using his own case of COVID to better educate the public of its virility, he has downplayed the virus acting as if his care by a retinue of world-class physicians is routine.
More than 211,000 Americans have died from the virus to date.
Biden, meanwhile, continues to be the role model we need by heeding medical professionals’ advice to wear a mask and social distance.
