#BringUsTogether — Biden-Kasich 2020
A house divisive within itself cannot stand… for anything… and won’t stand with anyone across the aisle
As partisan politics and vitriol have escalated to levels rarely seen in America’s history, the Democratic and Republican parties have become tails that are wagging the dog, the dog being Americans and more specifically, the present and future well-being of Americans.
Like divorcing parents who are filled with such rancor and animosity, both political parties cause Americans to feel like helpless children wondering what their parents’ fighting has to do with what’s in their best interest.
That is why a multi-partisan (I prefer that to the word “bipartisan,” because Independents will be welcome in positions chosen after the election) Presidential ticket with Joe Biden for President and John Kasich for Vice President is the joint leadership America needs.
Of all the candidates they seem to historically (with some in retrospect bad decisions that every candidate has also made) clearly put the best interest of America first and in doing so they could restore America, Americans and the Constitution as the dog wagging the partisan interests of each party.
Clearly Biden appears to be the leading Democratic candidate.
As for Kasich? He has not declared he’ll run for anything and in the meantime has become a commentator for anti-Fox News CNN.
One might wonder, why would Kasich deign to being Vice President and Vice President of the Democratic Party (shades of Joe Lieberman).
As long as I am envisioning how this might play out, I don’t think it would be the Democratic Party. It would be a multi-party ticket.
If you remember, Biden had the same hesitation at joining Obama in 2008, when his own Presidential bid fell flat. He changed his mind when among other things, his wife, Jill, told him that with Obama becoming the first Black President, Biden had the chance to become part of something historic.
Furthermore, when he entered office, he and Obama developed a close and trusted relationship that surprised both of them and that continues to this day.
Kasich, by accepting the nomination as Vice President, would have the chance of being part of the most historic leadership team in American history.
Historic, because in putting the best interest of Americans first and then collaboration to make it a reality, they would become a model on collaborative co-leadership that the world has never seen and could follow so that the “us” in #BringUsTogether becomes the world.
If and when the partisan parties push back — and they will — the joint collaborative leadership of Biden Kasich could respond with, “Make the case for how this is good for the majority of Americans and their present and future needs and we’re happy to consider what you have to say.”
BTW in choosing #BringUsTogether, I decided to not go with #BringAmericaTogether, because if Biden and Kasich could pull this off they could serve as a model for the leadership that the entire world needs, i.e. putting the best interest of the peoples of the world first and serving them through collaboration.
I also considered #PuttingAmericansFirst, by which I meant, having the best interest of Americans wag the political parties’ tails, but it could easily be misunderstood to be about American exceptionalism being better than the rest of the world.
Now more than ever, the future belongs to people who can trust and collaborate with each other at the top in the service of not just Americans, but also of humankind, instead of making the future a casualty of the “zero sum game” and war, currently being waged by both political parties where the best laid plans of Democrats and Republicans screw too many people.
