I'm sure on the whole Joe Biden will do some laudable things, I just blanch at the hagiography. It is a constant reminder of the shallowness of politics. Every image and utterance is calculated. Joe is presented as some cool steady hand, when the reality is that he's a figurehead and puppet for other interests. Meanwhile, I see Bernie Sanders in there fighting the good fight (largely, as I feel Jimmy Dore's criticisms are valid).

I am intensely bitter, as the DNC conspired to kneecap Bernie (twice), but now pretend that any progressive leanings they have are what they're about. Joe is an accomplice in this subterfuge as far as I'm concerned. I feel the signs are that he's in cognitive decline, and I do not feel he'll finish out his term. While Kamala Harris on paper is groundbreaking in her election, I have my own issues with her as well (and I voted for her for her California offices). Pelosi and Schumer are more times that not awful, for similar reasons.

And finally, it should never ever be forgotten that these are largely the people that gave us Trump in the first place. He was their handpicked pied piper. They plan to run a mediocre warmongering corporate tool against a boorish incompetent and corrupt game show host worked... just four years late. They couldn't beat their own ringer the first time out and could have easily list to him again with Creepy Addled Uncle Joe. As it was, he had zero coattails.

I mourn what could have been. They Dems are largely a fake opposition party in the kabuki theater of American politics.

I can agree with you completely, yet hold to what I said. Joe Biden is a neo-liberal but in a sense so was FDR, he still accomplished great things. I haven't known a president in my life time who was someone I looked up to.