Comments by "andy99ish" (@andy99ish) on "FOX 4 Dallas-Fort Worth" channel.

Biden missed the fundamental issue. Which is the ever growing distrust between sections of US society.
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Making a comparison between very brave but small Finland making peace with the mighty Soviet Union on honorable terms and the unorganized flight of a superpower from of a horde of lightly armed moped drivers is nonsense. You are also incorrect as to facts in another case: It was Trump who decided the Afghanistan engagement to be terminated. Biden was just unable to execute it properly.
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@patriot52realfinn22 I have read the autobiography of Mannerheim. I have learned that Fins were politically quite divided in the 1920s and 1930s. Yet you have overcome divisons and survived. Everyone admires Finland ! I like Biden for being tougher towards Russia than Trump. Which is also good for Finland, isn't it ? On the other hand Biden mishandled the job of retreating from Afghanistan badly - and as POTUS he was and is the actual Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces and Intelligence Agencies. I generally think Biden is not a good leader in times of crisis (whatever Trump was). A superpower which even cannot retreat orderly will be treated less seriously.
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@LewisPuseyOK Re your first sentence: No, I definitively do not think so. The basic issue is, why so many Americans embraced the claim, that the election was stolen.
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@junevandermark952 You illustrate my point. As you randomly assume that a) I am American and b) that I am a fan of Trump and that c) one has to love Biden OR love Trump. You are invited to overcome your fixation on seeing enemies everywhere. As only then you might be able to write something meaningful to what I originally stated.
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@C N You seriously argue that the FOX echo chamber is the only place where that mistrust is manifesting itself ? Really ?
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@junevandermark952 It HAS changed. That is why Biden is worried. Yes, humans always displayed some typical attitudes. Yet the extent to which they did, varies. More specifically - I am not aware that in the last decades a substantial portion of US population judged the sitting POTUS not to have been duly elected, as it is the case now. I have also not heard any top candidate for POTUS denigrate half of his/hers rivals' electorate as racists etc. before H. Clinton did so. You mention liberty as if it were the only goal. In reality the issue is, how to balance individual freedoms with social cohesion and discipline, without which societies and states disintegrate. "The choice is yours" reflects a rather passive attitude, in which citizens are only to make choices between alternatives constructed by others. I believe that citizens are meant to contribute something to make society better.
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@soldsanity I am not arguing about justification or lack of it. I do point out that many people feel and act in a specific way and that this core issue needs to be addressed. This fact will not disappear only because you (and me) deem a large part of these feelings not to be justified.
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@hudsonlawrence So something which is "ever growing" did not grow in the past ? Hear, hear ! You should focus on reading and thinking, instead of investing your scarce intellectual powers in attempts at psychology.
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@junevandermark952 Not being an American I have always admired the ability of US society to correct itself (like overcoming segregation) plus some basic civility, which by and large was kept up despite fierce political differences. This has changed in the last two decades or so. And the impulse came from both sides of the political spectrum. H. Clinton openly despised her opponents (to be precise, half of them, which is still roughly one quarter of the population) as racists, misogynists etc. That was unfair to say the least. And it was not a slip. It was the expression of a growing progressive hostility towards anything traditional. On the other side, the fact, that a person like Trump could succeed, says a lot about the sorry state of the conservative side. To make matters worse, media have given up the ambition of being brokers of information, but turned into openly partisan institutions. We live in an age of marketing and as controversy sells better than moderation, controversy heats up without any basic reason. That at least is my answer to the question politico raised today in its article "We Are In a New Civil War … About What Exactly?".
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@chasinglighttoo One man is nothing. Unless there are people who are ready for his message. And you are aware that there was an anti-establishment rebellion going on on the conservative side since at least the Tea Party movement ? And H. Clinton's denigration of these parts of society did not help. Trump just capitalized on it.
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@hudsonlawrence Trump first capitalized on the deep division which existed before he ran for POTUS and then amplified it. You are invited to think why that division was there in first place. In order to come to meaningful conclusions you should overcome that manichean and short term thinking, which is so typical of contemporary America.
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