Euros always complain, and Yanks SHOULD complain, about our perpetual “elections”. Other countries have well-defined campaign times, often limited by law. Parliament decides it’s time for an election, sets the date a few months later, and the candidates get going fast and hard. The short interval insures that the discussion pertains to current events, and the ads at the start will still be fresh and salient at the end.
We have fake “elections” every 4 years, no way to decide when it’s time for a change. No feedback, no adaptation. One second after President N takes the oath on Jan 20, both candidates for President N+1 are in place and ready to start. For the next 4 years without pause, both “sides” repeat the same few sentences verbatim, like a pair of competing cuckoo clocks.
This year we suddenly have a Euro style election. Trump and Biden were cuckooing for the previous 3.5 years. Now we have a NEW pairing, and Harris is getting underway hard and fast with only a few months to make her case. Trump also has to start fresh with a new set of scurrilous irrelevant slanders.
Later, Bloomberg podcasts bring out another important result of the change. Trump has now WASTED 3.5 years of advertising and slanders against Biden. Smart strategy in war or competition gets your opponent to WASTE his effort on a project or attack that turns out to be futile. The money and effort and morale are gone, and can’t be regained.
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