Quick take: Unity is a pipe dream

 As we look forward (?) to a Biden administration, let's take one quick moment to address a theme from Biden's address.  Unity.

Ain't happen', no way, no how.

Do you remember some guy named, "Barack Obama?"  He ran for office with a response to John "I'm a douchebag, cheating on my wife who's dying of cancer" Edwards.  Edwards had this whole schtick about "two Americas," and Obama was Mr. One America.  Unity, and can't we all just get along?  He came into office, in 2009, promising to bring the country together, and work across the aisle, and all of that sappy, kumbaya crap.  And then the Republican Party spent eight years telling everyone that he was an illegal immigrant from Kenya, secretly muslim, trying to institute death panels, and all sorts of other crazy things.

And even when the Tea Party threatened financial calamity in 2011 by threatening to block an increase in the debt ceiling... Obama still didn't get it.  He still kept thinking that if he just caved enough, they'd like him.

The debt ceiling debacle of 2011 was what it took for Obama to invest in that clue he had been eyeing, but getting the stinkeye from the store manager for wandering around but not actually buying yet.  After that, he understood that they weren't going to work with him.  It was going to be a fight.  For everything.  And never in good faith.  OK.  He was kind of slow on the uptake, but eventually, he took up.

So Biden is now doing the unity thing.

Wait a minute.  Whose VP was he?!  These people just incited a fucking insurrection to block the certification of the electoral college vote based on a bunch of lies, and even after everything with Obama, he's still doing the unity thing?!

Yeah, this'll work out for him.