{"id":41617,"date":"2020-03-10T21:32:31","date_gmt":"2020-03-10T21:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=41617"},"modified":"2020-03-10T21:32:31","modified_gmt":"2020-03-10T21:32:31","slug":"called-out-on-a-call-for-a-return-to-normalcy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=41617","title":{"rendered":"Called out on a call for a return to &#8216;normalcy&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=JoeBiden%20%23POTUS%20%23MAGA%20%23HighPlainsBlogger&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/biden-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-41528\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/biden-1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/biden-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/biden-1-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/biden-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/biden-1.jpg 1160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have been called out by someone I do not know, but who has read a blog I posted recently.<\/p>\n<p>In the blog item, I called for a return of a more &#8220;normal&#8221; presidency and I posited that Joe Biden is the man to bring it.<\/p>\n<p>This individual challenged my thesis. He said: <em>Is there something other than normalcy you would fight for? Is this the natural ending for most people politically at a certain age?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Fight for?&#8221; I&#8217;ll just provide this addendum regarding what I published on High Plains Blogger.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I support the former vice president&#8217;s view that we need only to improve the Affordable Care Act, that we don&#8217;t need to toss it aside and create a totally government-run health care plan. Biden isn&#8217;t willing to provide a Medicare for All health plan being pitched by Bernie Sanders and others on the far left wing of the Democratic Party. I have said all along that the ACA isn&#8217;t perfect and that Barack Obama &#8212; the ACA&#8217;s daddy &#8212; has declared that he would be open to improving it where needed.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That&#8217;s one issue.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I also want the president to be a reliable ally around the world. I want him to cease scolding our friends and allies in public, demanding out loud that they pay more for the defense we provide. I am convinced that Joe Biden will exercise discretion when talking to &#8212; and about &#8212; our allies abroad.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That&#8217;s another point.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I want a president who will take on the National Rifle Association and other gun-rights fanatics. I have believed for years there are ways to legislate reasonable control on firearms without abridging our Second Amendment rights that guarantee we can &#8220;keep and bear arms.&#8221; I also believe &#8212; if he stays true to his pledge to &#8220;take on the NRA&#8221; &#8212; that Joe Biden can work with Congress to search for legislative remedies to the spasm of gun violence that has become one of our nation&#8217;s most hideous scourges.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That&#8217;s No. 3.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Finally, I want a president who buys into the science that tells us that our climate is changing and that it is threatening our planet, the creatures that inhabit it &#8212; including we human beings &#8212; and that we have a responsibility to deal with this existential threat to Earth&#8217;s survival. No more &#8220;hoax&#8221; pronouncements. Joe Biden has made a vow to attack climate change head on.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There. That&#8217;s just a start. Thanks to the reader who called me out.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=JoeBiden%20%23POTUS%20%23MAGA%20%23HighPlainsBlogger&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been called out by someone I do not know, but who has read a blog I posted recently. In the blog item, I called for a return of a more &#8220;normal&#8221; presidency and I posited that Joe Biden is the man to bring it. This individual challenged my thesis. He said: Is there &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=41617\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Called out on a call for a return to &#8216;normalcy&#8217;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1424,2122,2505,3700],"class_list":["post-41617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-high-plains-blogger","tag-joe-biden","tag-presidency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41617"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41618,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41617\/revisions\/41618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}