Joe Biden is a symptom of America's decline, but other than accelerating the decline he's not even going to be remembered at all I imagine.
He's an attempt at rallying people around a center of American Ideals and Values which just don't exist anymore. They say that a man is who he is because of what was going on when he was 20
—and Joe was 20 in 1962. JFK was president and Vietnam was still beginning, I think 10,000 men at the most. His America is the America of a 1950's childhood grown up but not yet horrified by endless nation-building and freedom-mongering in Vietnam. The Cuban missile crisis happened in 1962, but there were adults in the room at the White House who handled it and the American people were right to trust them. This is his idea of America at its core. 30% of women were employed as the American family still trusted the man of the house.
But do Gays and Blacks want to live in 1962? Could any government under America's affirmative action campaigns really be trusted to be staffed by top men handling things maturely? How about the media, or the military, or the infrastructure, or private society? Are those at all near their 1962 levels, or have they all gone thoroughly to shit? Does that America exist at all anymore, and given demographics and trend-lines are things moving toward anything close to a high point of stability or (laughably) some golden age? Are we moving to simpler times, when money went as far as it should and a young couple could afford a starter home on a just husband's salary? Where women were employed only while they were single?
This is no mental picture of America to rally Americans around by some speech. You would be laughed at for suggesting any of these were possible today given America's decline.
It's Over.
What could even become a center of American Politics? Liberalism and Progressivism? Gay marriage and abortion
—Are they the agreed-upon core of America? I don't think any shared central ideals exists any more, other than a feeling of cowardice at where we are going now that we lack anything to bring America together. We have only the ideals of the degenerates, and a bunch of conservatives who conserve nothing because they want the degenerates to look fondly on them
—conservatives who desire most for 2021's hollywood to think of them as 'cool' and 'popular' in our fallen age where first pedophilia is being normalized, second parents are being pressured into protecting their children less and less, and finally as kids are encouraged to consent to adult things more and more. What a hero Ben Shapiro is, he won't be complaining tiredly about even worse things next year and how they're also unsustainable! At least the degenerates surprise you with their thinking.
Without a center to rally around while one party is shrieking and howling for more sexuality and subsidies or they'll burn the town down, the rest of society quietly pretends nothing is wrong and that the Left will stop any day now or that the Antifa are "just an idea". Whatever needs to be believed so that they can live their lives in peace, regardless of if it is true or that increasingly America will become harder and harder to live in. There is only admitting America is broken, and either shutting up and hoping the Left will leave you alone, or reducing the political to the existential distinction between friend and enemy and picking a side.
Joe Biden is the false hope that deescalation is possible, but what could a normal America be in 2021? What are the radical Homosexual rights, and the normal? What are the radical Education reform efforts, and the normal schooling? What are the radical changes to the military, and the normal recruitment? What are the radical World Economic Forum plots against America, and the normal workings of Modern Capitalism? Biden cannot even admit that the Left are extremists! Everything is tainted, and no two people can agree on what to put in the normal category and what to put instead in the category of reforms that aren't going to work.
I increasingly believe that there is only a choice to collapse in 2070, as the cowardice of optimism shackles conservative discussion into a steady decline. Or a choice to plan for the occurrence of another Civil War in 2030-2040 because even the media one day won't be able to discuss what is directly happening outside their doors without such thought terminating cliches or social constructs about how everything the left doesn't like is a social construct that you cannot even understand them
—so "High Trust" society breaks a little at a time slowly down the years but somewhere perhaps small parallel-societies keep the American Dream and freedom alive in small corners of America long enough to survive what we cannot even admit is the coming death of America or at least American prosperity.
Joe Biden is a reminder of sad things.
