If not a rational, adult leader, then what?
To smartly understand the world,
Dismiss bombast and online swirl;
Across the noisy right and left
Fault-finders leave reality bereft.
Selecting the top leader’s no frolic,
Uniting the real and symbolic;
Grace under pressure suits one Joe—
Not idiocy from a bad game show.
Thus must reason and reason negate
The mindless, right-wing caliphate.
Defying the Big Lie as the Big Con—
Twaddle from would-be Genghis Khan.
Heartfelt lefties push different frames:
Clamorous, judgmental blame games;
Aghast at open primary choices,
Relentless fervor drives their voices.
No Dem incumbent’s good enough:
Too old, too wimpy, a spineless bluff;
To back with arms a besieged ally
Convicts a “genocidal” bad guy.
Estrangement fans perfection,
Inclined to moralize each election;
Isn’t Biden a facile sitting duck,
A centrist driving ideologues amuck?
Compare Biden not to the almighty
But a crazed, convicted thuggee;
What candidate is ever perfect,
So pure we all must genuflect?
To cast Biden in the harshest glare
Engulf the politics of despair;
Are we picking kings and queens,
Or defending democratic dreams?
The vexation that fuels sophistry
Contorts our complex history;
Imperative real-world choices matter—
And so must comfort zones shatter.
To desecrate a rational winner
Empowers a cutthroat sinner;
Sane realists favor a flawed champ,
Over Trump’s vengeful prison camp.
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