Hunter

 The latest "bombshell" story about Hunter Biden is really just more of the same old political smearing we've seen from, well, Democrats as well.

Unlike all of the central Russiagate allegations, and compilations of fabrications like the Steele Dossier, the material on the laptop might actually be true stuff.  (Or not.)

But here, even if they are 100% true and authentic, it's a bunch of perfectly predictable crap we'd see with anyone of Biden's height in the apparatus.  Think of what we know about the Trumps.

I certainly don't care if there's a photo of Hunter smoking crack.  I might have done that once.

The problem is more that our political discourse focuses on such crap as this and Russiagate.  Rather than very real concerns about the present and future governance of the wealthiest and most powerful country on earth.

Trump is the far greater danger to the Republic and the Planet.  He must be effectively and decisively voted out, not merely against.  The only way to vote Trump out is to vote for his leading competitor who is Biden.

We know Biden will be better for Abortion and Equal Rights, not stoke white supremacy and other racist and sexist division at home and abroad.  Trump is a far outlier there.  An embarrassment to the modern world.

Biden has a history of helping achieve arms control agreements, of the kind which Trump decided to rip up.  (For that reason, he is endorsed by the longstanding Council for a Liveable World.)  

Biden recognizes rather than discredits Global Warming, and has proposed slightly less ambitious (but still nearly impossible to hope for) goals for reducing net carbon, and a somewhat coherent program.  Leading Global Warming scientist Michael Mann is strongly pushing for Biden, despite not believing in the carbon storage thing.  He says the big deal about fracking is only one detail, we don't necessarily have to ban it to launch a major change from the status quo.  Even the radically outspoken 350.org has endorsed Biden.  

The vast majority of radical political commentators and organizations explicity endorse or clearly prefer Biden to Trump.  As much as was ever true with Obama, maybe more, in the General Election.

Biden doesn't present a perfect program, or a perfect person, but vastly better, jumping over the cliff rather than slowly walking, and hopefully turning.  But with the jump, there is little time or hope.

The Republicans hyped dangers are our impossible dreams.  We can't expect much, we know that, sadly.  But there is still very much at stake.