Way ot but I am going to say anyways from the perspective of an older person like myself looking retrospectively back over the years.
Even if those who read this don't agree and/or something, at least you will see where I am coming from politically speaking as it relates
to politics and who is the POTUS.
In short I have lived through many different Administrations on both sides of the aisle, although I don't remember all of them because
I was too young.
For all intents and purposes, my memories start with Eisenhower and for now ends with Biden.
I am not going to bore you with all of the details over the years, but rather just mention one Election Year to try to make my point.
My earliest recollection was in 1960, and I wanted Kennedy to win, because I looked up to him and liked what he stood for.
However 1964 is a better example, and the nominees were LBJ and Goldwater.
I was twenty years old at the time and just starting to get into politics a little bit.
To cut to the chase, I wanted LBJ to win because I liked his programs overall and was pretty liberal back then(a lot more than now).
Anyways I was scared of Goldwater because of all the talk, chatter and gossip that he would have no qualms about pushing the nuclear button
and starting WW3 if the situation dictated.
There was one kid in my dorm. who even at his young age was as rabid a Republican as anyone in this forum and was a big Goldwater supporter.
His big beef about LBJ was that and to use words was that he didn't want "rampant socialism" to take over country, which he said would occur if LBJ
got elected.
Looking back at that year and subsequent Presidential Elections and Administrations with all of the predictions and paranoia expressed by folks
of both parties, all I can say is that I am still around, the country is still around and I am doing well, and imo so are other people who lived through
those eras.
I heard the same nonsense about the harm that Nixon would do if elected, then Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Bush Jr. Obama, Trump and now Biden.
For me in retrospect it was a lot of hyperbole, unjustified fear and paranoia on both sides.
In all honesty I don't think my overall life would have changed all that much if the opposing nominee had won any or all of those Elections,
and imo the same would apply to most people.
Obviously and to be fair, that DOESN'T include our involvement in wars like Vietnam and Iraq where people died or maimed because of our presence.
Also and perhaps it is because I am older than most, I see life in general from a relatively different perspective than other younger folks.
One last thing-if miraculously Trump did return and was reinstated as the legitimate POTUS say this year, my fear would not be his policies,
how they might differ from Biden's and the overall impact.
Rather my biggest fear would be what a military coup d-etat would do to the country as a whole.
Lets just say without going into detail, that an sudden upheaval like this would cause massive violence in the streets and could very well be the end
of the US as we know it-imo it would be a tsunami or massive hurricane in a figurative sense and would wreak unimaginable destruction.
That's it-thanks for all who took the time to read this dissertation, but I have been wanting to get it off my chest for some time.