I say all candidates get exactly 10 days to make their case to be president with only a $10000 budget and a preselected film crew to do it. We all just sit at home and watch the poorly written reality tv show that it is and cast our votes throughout the campaign Survivor style. Anyone can run, last one standing gets to be president until next season.
I think maybe this whole 'political' vs 'not political' thing is where we're getting stuck.
I would argue that at least my part in this thread hasn't been political at all, but instead a rather simple comment on the character of the two candidates. I'm more concerned with how they conduct themselves as people, not the policies they push as politicians. This is more a question of ethics and morality on human to human level. Your pointing out the ethics of genocide and capitalism. Which are great and completely valid points, but they're also large nebulous concepts that can rarely ever land fully on the shoulders of one person. Kinda outside the scope of my original comment.
I haven't brought up any specific details of eithers presidency because I have no meaningful opinions on that front. However, the simple fact that one of them has literally on multiple occasions outright glorified raping women and the other won't pardon his own son of a serious crime is more than enough for me to put them on completely different shit podiums.
Kinda hard to know if that's true considering I still haven't stated any political opinions. However, since that's clearly what you want, I think practically every politician (or anyone in a significant position of power) on the planet is a massive fucking tool barely deserving of the title of human, not exactly what I'd call idealism. Trump and Biden may both fit this description, but I'm still not naive enough to put them together on the podium of shitty human beings.
I think you might have a somewhat warped understanding of what the office of President actually is. Sure it has tremendous influence over the higher branches of the federal government and therefore the nation, and to a lesser extent the world. But, the office is hardly all powerful or even particularly capable of making all the decisions. The President can never be wholly to blame for all the bad things happening in the world, as much as we'd all like too.
Also, at no point have I actually argued that either one of our favorite culturally relevant old guys is good or bad. I only ever hinted at the inherent intent behind their actions and words, and questioned the soundness of electing someone that takes perverse joy in proving that he's an overcooked cunt. Biden at the very least tries to mumble his way to kindness.
Not sure I would ever describe Biden's behavior as malicious, unless ofc I missed something. Trump, on the other hand, is almost always verbally attacking someone else or otherwise sowing dissent. Kinda the definition of malicious intent.
What if I can't sleep when I go to bed early? I mean, I can't sleep when I go to bed late either, but still