Inside the Biden Playbook

Reports are being published, they may or may not be correct, about polling done by the Democratic Party suggest what the Party candidates will say on campaign trails. Biden's opening remarks probably were what we will hear from all Democrats. It's a sad state of affairs that he, or any Presidential candidate, is required to talk almost exclusively about wrongs done to people by too much religion in politics and government. That is U.S. politics today. 

The big thing voters hate about Republicans today is book burning. Now there are few actual bonfires with Republicans throwing books into the fire, though there was one in Iowa a couple of years ago, the dramatic bans of what books can be read by children in schools, what people wear (drag) when they read books to children in public libraries and what words can be used by teachers comes off as eerily similar to "book burning." Bans on abortion are not quite the same but obviously come from the same mindset of control over others. 

These passions to control others are identical to what Southern white people did during slavery and segregation. There were countless efforts to keep black people from being considered equal. One of them was how black people were referred to in textbooks. Today, the minds of those Southern whites have been transferred nationwide into the brains of today's conservative Christians. In these minds today, the old South was wrong. But, "We are not."

I think this opening for Democrats was created largely by gerrymandering. As Republican majorities became increasingly aggressive about drawing district lines to elect themselves to state legislatures, it became easier to win. The Religious right pushed forward candidates with more extreme religious agendas. Their constituents demanded ever more extreme outcomes. This snowballed into Trump, DeSantis and the clown car of Republican candidates.  

If you asked random people on the street, "Do you know right from wrong?" Everyone would answer yes. If you asked, "Do politicians know right from wrong better than members of the public?" the answers would be majority no. Democratic Party politicians, at this point in time, know the correct answer better than do Republicans.