I am relieved and proud to have Joe Biden as President of the United States. Is he perfect, no. Is anyone of us perfect, no, but we all have a choice to strive to serve the common good or not, and President Biden is working tirelessly day in and day out to serve the common good. This is right and good. These are specific reasons why I honor President Biden's work.
Dignified, respectful, humane man
President Biden is leading with dignity, respect, and humanity. This brings people together. Our former President, Donald Trump, divided us continually with a constant barage of divisive insults, bigotry, propaganda and hate.
Experience
President Biden has significant positive government experience as well as human experience. His experience makes him a better leader than someone who does not understand how our government works or who has not had significant life experience.
Takes his job seriously
President Biden is not out on the golf course daily, but instead doing the hard work of leading the country day in and day out.
An experienced, dedicated team of public servants
Rather than using his office as President as a way to pad the pocketbooks and power of family members, friends and cronies as Trump did, President Biden takes his job seriously and has filled important government offices with a diverse group of dedicated, experienced, intelligent public servants. He is leading with a dedicated team who take their jobs seriously.
Collaborator
President Biden does not lead as if he is a king, dictator or tyrant as Trump did. Instead, President Biden is a collaborator who understands that one person does not have the monopoly on all aspects of leading a country. Instead, Biden collaborates with good leaders both domestically and internationally. This is essential.
Unifier
President Biden clearly believes that most Americans are well meaning and deserving of the kinds of supports that help them to live good lives. He is not focused on dividing us by class, gender, culture, religion, party or more, but instead looking for ways to unify us around our central values of strong family, good jobs, and safe communities. We are stronger as a country when we are unified--we can help one another. Biden knows this and works for this.
Biden does not take Trump bait
Trump is a self-serving marketeer and propagandist more than anything else. The bottom line for Trump is whether he gains personal profit, power, pleasure, protection and privilege--he clearly could care less about most people in the USA and abroad. For Trump, it's all about him and few to no one else. President Biden, on the other hand, works for all of us and mostly ignores Trump's hateful, harmful propaganda, lies, exaggeration and theater. Instead, legal experts focus on Trump's legacy and actions with scrutiny looking to see where and how Trump broke the law and promoted terrorism, cheating and crimes within the United States.
Biden wants to Build Back Better
Biden is working with other lawmakers to better the United States by modernizing the infrastructure, providing families with needed support, limitating child care costs, reducing the cost of prescription drugs, greening our nation and more. Biden's work is all about helping people to live good lives. He wants fair taxation that ensure that everyone pays their share to make our country strong and positive.
President Joe Biden understands that the role of President is that of a public servant who works with other like-minded individuals to serve the people and the country in general. Trump, sadly and dangerously, is a sick sociopath who used the role of President as a stepping stone to greater personal power, wealth, profit, protection and privilege. Trump's devisive ways took our country back in harmful, hateful, dangerous ways well represented by his obvious attempt to overthrow the government on January 6th via a deadly, costly, terrorizing domestic assault at the United States Capitol--an assault he promoted, watched and did nothing to stop.
Is Biden the perfect President? Is any President the perfect President? The answer is no--but, Biden took office at a very difficult time in American history--a time when a large faction of Americans were working against our free country and good living for all. He is doing a fantastic job with his team to unify us around our long-held American ideals of good, free living for all. This is good.
For me, I want to find ways to join Biden's efforts to work for the following endeavors:
- Fair Taxation: I want the richest American people and corporations to pay their share of taxes.
- Support for Families: I want to lift all families from poverty. The child tax credit greatly helped families all across the United States, and by extending that credit, we will continue to help families. When families have what they need to take care of their loved ones, we all profit with a more peaceful people who have greater opportunity to find good jobs, take care of their loved ones, and contribute to the community and nation.
- Modernize Infrastructure: To modernize the country's infrastructure will make our country safer and provide greater opportunity for all. This is necessary. Everyone who owns a home or business knows that regular modernization helps to keep that home or business useful and profitable. The same is true for our country.
- International Collaboration for Good: I want our country to continue to work with countries around the world to promote greater peace and good living. So many current issues depend on global collaboration to make better. Issues such as migration, immigration, climate change, lessening violence, poverty and more depend on the world's leaders and people working together--this is essential.
- Promote Unions: To raise working conditions and fair pay for people, we need greater support for good unions. It's okay to hold unions accountable to honest, positive work, but it's also essential to support unionization in ways that uplift working conditions that help employees to do their jobs well and support good living for themselves and their loved ones.
- Hold cheaters, lawbreakers accountable: To watch people like Trump and his children and cronies profit from our hard earned taxes via cheating and self-serving behaviors is sickening. I want our government to hold cheaters, abusers, users, terrorists accountable to the law. We can't have a class of self-serving individuals who do what they want at the expense of the safety and good living of all Americans.
- Eradicate deadly, dangerous racism, hate, and bigotry: Nowhere in our country can we accept bigoted, racist, hateful language and actions that obstruct good living, safety, and opportunity of any American based on their skin shade, lifestyle, family, culture, religion, job or more.
- Promote honest media while mitigating harmful propaganda, lies, exaggeration: It's the information age, and we have to find ways to make laws that mitigate the spread of dangerous propaganda, lies, exaggeration that create harmful cults who put themselves and others in danger due to misinformation.
- Protect the planet: We have to clean up the environment and do what we can to preserve our natural resources and respond to the impact of climate change.
- Better schools: Modernize and better schools in ways that serve educators, students and families better. Too many schools are mired in outdated, oppressive infrastructure, leadership, environments, rules, schedules, and expectations. It's time to modernize education in ways that provide educators with what they need to teach well and serve students and families in positive, productive ways. After all good schools and a well-educated populace translate to a strong nation.
- Regulate guns: Right now a number of self-serving companies and individuals are profiting off of the senseless gun violence that kills and harms innocents. This is horrible and has to end. We need to regulate gun use in the same safe ways that we regulate tobacco and cars. There's no reason for people to own war machines and there's no reason why people should be able to sell or buy guns without good regulations. There needs to be insurance requirements for gun ownership as well as safety tests, age restrictions and more. Anyone of us could be a victim of senseless gun violence--that should not be the case. We have to clean up this situation asap for the safety of all.
There are so many ways to improve society and work for betterment. We all have to do our part by getting involved in the ways we can to work for the common good, take good care of our loved ones and share the wealth of time, energy, money, ideas, respect and support.
President Biden has put us on a positive track once again. There is limitless potential to do what is right and good, and we all have to do our part. Onward.