I don’t want Joe Biden to run for President (for a bunch of political and personal reasons, most of which are probs obvious) but I do want him to have a TV show where he just goes around the country talking to people about their lives and (gently) how they relate to policy.
Like, a legit cross-section of people, from different places, different demographics, different existences as Americans, no celebs, just people, and peel back some of the mystery as to what actual issues face us and what policy connects to that.
I don’t have a ton of hope that this could really happen, but I think if it was well-made, it could change more than any noisy, probably-failed campaign would. This is a media era and I think he’s a rare figure who could pull it off with delicacy and candor and wit.
Like, go hang out with some people from Flint and let them tell their stories and then explain to us how shitty, racist policy got them there and the challenges of policy going forward, but via the actual people and their actual stories. Does that make sense?
Because the personal is political. We have plenty of shows that cover policy stuff, and some are even very tender and/or clever, but there’s a lot of pain out there and a lot of it was caused by policy (or could be fixed by policy) and Joe, for all his problems, translates well.
And people legitimately like him one-on-one. And he’s seen some shit. (And done some shit.)
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