Originally Posted by
highfarfast
Biden has his own issues with racism, women, and plagiarism. He stood by quietly while his supporters spit on and attacked police and tour apart family businesses (after months of this, he did finally speak out against it but only after it started effecting his polling numbers). That's just off the top of my head. I'm sure I could come up with more if I wanted to spend more time on it and there's plenty of info on it out there if you really are interested in it. You probably are not though.
As to your question as to how to explain to my kids some of Trumps despicable actions, I certainly don't hide or defend them. Neither of them are anyone I'd put up as role models. BTW, both my kids are old enough to google. One can vote.
I'm already aware of all of those issues.
There was an alleged rape, he passed legislation that in the long-run hurt minorities, and he plagiarized a speech while running for POTUS in '88 that caused him to drop out. Comparatively, 26 women have cases against Trump for sexual misconduct, he inarguably practiced housing discrimination, and he has a long record of swindling people (Trump University, not paying his design firm for the Atlantic City casino, etc, etc). Just because the Cleveland Browns score touchdowns every now and then doesn't mean they're as good as the Pats. The score matters.
I get that nobody's perfect and people change, but I'm concerned about who they are, right now. Biden has expressed that he can learn from mistakes (War on Drugs, Crime Bill, etc) and change his policies to reflect that. I don't see Trump doing any deep self reflection. I see him getting caught red handed doing things that are wrong, and nobody, least of all his followers, holds him accountable. So if people cheer him on regardless of what he does, how far does it go?