SPECULUM VERUM
Joe Biden, the designated one 46. US President, always makes a big promise in public appearances:
“I vow to be a president, who doesn't want to divide, but one. Who doesn't see red or blue states, but only the United States.”
To keep this promise, should be difficult. More than 75 Millions of US citizens cast their votes for Donald Trump – Record for a sitting president. And around three quarters of these people believe in election fraud. They question the legitimacy of Biden's presidency, before it started.
No matter, whether it's about fighting the pandemic and the issue of masks, about racism, Police violence or cultural values and the question, what it means, to be an American: The trenches are deep – maybe too deep, says Kris Marsh. The African-American is a sociologist at the University of Maryland. “The damage could already be too great, than the new government can still bring us together. We talk together, but we don't listen to each other”, she says.
Many Republicans don't believe Biden and his team at all, that he is serious about his promise, to unite the country. A suspicion, which is stoked daily by the Trump-loyal media – for example by the conservative commentator Tammy Bruce on Fox News: “They have called us Trump supporters Nazis for years, as racists, as the dregs of society, as an idiot. They clearly have no respect for us.”
She cites as evidence, that Biden gave his two German Shepherds a Trump doll to tear up. Photos of this have been circulating on social networks for months. “These politicians – these crooks – say one thing and mean something else. But we know that”, says Bruce.
Biden repeatedly emphasized this during the election campaign, that thanks to his decades of experience as a senator and vice president, he is in a better position than any other candidate, also to work with political opponents. But dozens of Republicans in Congress still refuse, to accept him as elected president.
Also the Senate Majority Leader, Mitch McConnell, congratulated first, after the electoral college confirmed Biden as the election winner. A crucial step, for which Biden even thanked McConnell in a phone call.
In an interview with late-night talker Stephen Colbert, the Democrat was optimistic: “I believe, I can work with the Republican leadership; in the House and Senate. We can do something”, he said. “And I believe, once that president is no longer in office, his influence will also wane – and Republicans will be more ready again, to cooperate.”
How much Biden will depend on the Republican's cooperation, decides on 6. January: in the runoff election for two Senate positions. Unless the Democrats win both seats there, it remains with the majority of Republicans in the Senate – and McConnell, for example, could prevent it, that Biden's Cabinet nominations will be approved.
Biden has already set himself an initial test: On the day of his inauguration he wants to ask the Americans, for 100 Wearing a mask for days – to get the pandemic under control. It is also a yardstick for this, whether they are ready, at least in this case to overcome the division in the country.
Americans chose Biden as their president. Means, believed him and entrusted their future to him. All, point, topic closed.
Not so unanimously chosen…however, it’s not for us to judge them
America has a large margin of safety, no matter what anyone says
Nothing, now Bidenito will remove the wall in the south, and from there such stability will flow, just hold on
They lived without a wall and did not grieve. Why would it make things worse for them?. Everything just goes back to normal
The idea of the wall did not fall from the ceiling. Migration is no longer spontaneous, this is a juicy business under the wing of crime. They are already organizing transcontinental marches to the border
Democrats took a different path – they buy the loyalty of states along the route of these marches, and those “dissolve” on the way to local prisons )))