In the previous blog I listed a number of differences between Biden and Trump. But one key difference stands out above all others. It’s related to the “fear-driven” nature of Biden and his fans. It more importantly relates to the nature of government each candidate promotes.
The key difference is this:
- Biden represents fear, helplessness, and dependence.
- Trump represents prudence, confidence, and independence.
During the last debate Biden declared,
“We’re about to go into a dark winter, a dark winter, and he [President Donald Trump] has no clear plan, and there’s no prospect that there’s gonna be a vaccine available for the majority of the American people before the middle of next year…”
Coupled with Biden’s basement seclusion, avoiding the public out of his outsized concern of the virus, this statement reveals his mindset: Fear and his promotion of the federal government as his solution to staying safe from the boogeyman virus.
What would Biden’s “clear plan” be? Locking down everything? How would it differ from what Trump already accomplished? Instilling fear in the populace so they stay locked up at home?
Biden promotes reliance on the “top down” approach of big government as the “big nanny”, telling us exactly what we should and should not do. His argument to the public is that Trump isn’t doing the “big government nanny” thing, and therefore Trump is being irresponsible.
Meanwhile, Trump promotes the idea that the role of the Federal Government is to stay out of people’s business as much as possible while providing the best voluntary guidance available, which it has done. Trump doesn’t believe in the nanny state. He believes most people are smart enough to know for themselves what they should do to remain safe.
Biden believes that we should “follow the science” as if science is an infallible god. He fails to acknowledge that the advice of science is fallible. It potentially changes with every new piece of data. And results of science are too easily manipulated by political interests. “Top down” science, especially if applied in a mandatory fashion by the federal government, can lead the entire populous off a cliff if it is wrong, which it often is.
Biden exudes doubt and pessimism while Trump exudes confidence and optimism.
Biden, despite his rhetoric, would absolutely keep America closed down, keep people from work, kids out of schools, the economy in the doldrums.
It is a simple mind that focuses all one’s energy on one aspect of a threat. Biden’s simple mind focuses on the virus and excludes all other factors relevant to health while Trump looks at the bigger picture: The physical, emotional, and economic health of individuals and the nation.
These differences manifest themselves in each candidates’ philosophy of governance:
Biden: Big government, higher taxes, more regulation, more control over individuals, because, after all, individuals are incapable of determining what is best for themselves.
Trump: Smaller government, lower taxes, less regulation, less control over individuals, because, after all, individuals ARE capable of determining what is best for themselves.
Which philosophy of governance do YOU prefer?
Bell weathers might also include: "Consumption" rather than production, entire group must search for a "consensus" from within the group, lack of responsibility for individuals making decisions with responsibility attributed to the group. Everything must be "mandatory" for laws to function as intended. Also, unwillingness of individuals to take risks because of perceived consequences. These tendencies reflect characteristics of almost all groups. The individual, conversely, needs the group but the group does not need the individual. All human endeavor can be divided along a continuum of extremes between the individual and the group for further generalized analysis.
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