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Debate Over The Debate                #281 By Hank Silverberg Biden vs. Trump. The 2024 campaign is going to be a repeat of 2020. The only real suspense left is who Donald Trump will pick as his running mate for vice-president.  The next six months is going to be interesting and  torturous at the same time. Biden will campaign from the White House with an occasional foray out into the country to promote projects with which he has had some success, like the massive Build Back America infrastructure bill. And he will push for a bill to make the right to an abortion the law of the land.  But at the same time, he will have to deal with a widening war in the Middle East and a hostile do-nothing Republican-led House that wants to help Trump by blocking anything Biden wants. That, of course, includes help for Ukraine, which continues its desperate struggle to survive under the assault of expansionist Russia.   Trump will campaign as a victim. We're all out to get him after all, in his vie
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 Elusive Truth                                                                                      #280 By Hank Silverberg It is only April, but the 2024 presidential election campaign is fully engaged. There are ads for both Trump and Biden on TV. At every political stop by either candidate there is talk of swing states and Electoral College votes. As I wrote last week, the looming presence of a third party candidate (RFK, Jr.) has both Democrats and Republicans nervous.  But are the voters fully engaged? Probably not. Most people are thinking about a family vacation this summer, preparing for their kid to go to college in the fall, what grass seed to use to fill in the bald spots on the lawn, just trying to make ends meet or dealing with the crazy weather we have had this past month all across the country. Sure, the pollsters (see below) and the political junkies are already all in on the 2024 race, but the rest of the population may be a bit behind.  And that's what concerns m
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A Three-Way                                #279 By Hank Silverberg It's only April, but the 2024 presidential election is heating up now. It could be one of most historical decisions in U.S. history.  Recent polls have shown President Biden and Republican Donald Trump running neck-and-neck with each one swinging up or down every week.   But what hasn't been talked about is how much of a significant impact Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.'s third party bid might have on the outcome. History has taught us that it is the Independent voter, not registered with each of the major parties, who usually decides presidential elections, and a recent  Quinnipiac University poll had Kennedy polling 36% among those registered as Independents.   Among all voters, that same poll had Trump at 39%, Biden at 38%, and Kennedy at 13%  (the poll had Biden leading Trump 48%-45% with no third party candidates).  Kennedy has little chance of actually getting elected, and has even had trouble getting on the
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  What Happened?                                                                                      #278 By Hank Silverberg  I have thought once or twice about ending this blog. My goal in starting it more than five years ago was to provide my readers with some interesting information. With a little bit of my  analysis or opinion mixed in, that might inform or entertain them. I was ready to write about anything. I can't even tell you what my first blog was about because I have changed the way I file them, and it's lost.  Today I find myself preaching mostly to the choir--in other words, people who agree with me or have the same focus in life, family, fun and good practical productive political decisions that will help those in need, and not damage those who aren't.  Somehow it hasn't gone that way. Our country is now polarized the way it was right before the Civil War in 1860.  No one today even knows the meaning of compromise.  Philosophers have written for centurie
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Time Passes Quickly                        #277 By Hank Silverberg              We are at spring break for my college classes this week, and I need the rest. This past week I had to listen to about 35 speeches from two classes. For the most part, the students are catching on and doing their work. But sometimes one of them does something unintentionally that really irks me. And ironically it ties into all the fuss over the age of the two major party presidential candidates.  This particular student did an Informative Speech on the value and function of Electric Vehicles in comparison to the traditional internal combustion engine.  He made a few mistakes, but that's okay. You learn that way. However, I called him out for one line.  In reviewing the history of electric vehicles, he said, "and in your time, Professor..." Well dawg, gone that got me angry. First, he's talking to the entire class and he shouldn't be singling me out. But he also included some ageism, imp
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