If Biden winds up withdrawing from the race, I won’t know what kind of country I live in anymore. But I will know it’s not at all what I once thought it was, namely, a country governed by we the people through free and fair primary and general elections. If this attempt to throw Biden overboard is successful, it will perversely prove Tru…
If Biden winds up withdrawing from the race, I won’t know what kind of country I live in anymore. But I will know it’s not at all what I once thought it was, namely, a country governed by we the people through free and fair primary and general elections. If this attempt to throw Biden overboard is successful, it will perversely prove Trump’s claims of rigged elections true to a new audience of Biden supporters who voted faithfully for Joe in the primaries believing naively their vote meant something. Regardless of what you think about Biden, he’s done nothing wrong to trigger this insane rush to throw him out except have a very bad debate night that raised legitimate questions about his mental fitness, questions knowingly ridiculed and suppressed by the very people now seeking his demise. He’s not accused of any crime, there’s no crushing personal moral scandal. He won all his primaries, and until three weeks ago, EVERYONE on his side and in the media insisted that questions about possible dementia were out of bounds, misinformation, or “cheap fakes”. But now they’ve all changed their tune, not because he did something bad but because he’s losing to Trump. That’s his crime. And if the donors and party’s rulers can force him out as A SITTING PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, then everything we believe to be true about American democracy is false. If the President of the USA is ultimately powerless against a secretive cabal behind the curtain, then God help us. Do we really live in a country where a roomful of nameless billionaires can FORCE a president to withdraw? It’s insane. The much lamented cynicism infecting American politics would reach unprecedented depths, and any Democrat thus elected would be seen, rightly, as a stooge, tool, and puppet by most Americans, even among many who voted for them. You wanna save democracy? Then say no to this slow motion coup. I’m genuinely rooting for Joe because something much bigger is at stake here, and no one is talking about it.
If Biden winds up withdrawing from the race, I won’t know what kind of country I live in anymore. But I will know it’s not at all what I once thought it was, namely, a country governed by we the people through free and fair primary and general elections. If this attempt to throw Biden overboard is successful, it will perversely prove Trump’s claims of rigged elections true to a new audience of Biden supporters who voted faithfully for Joe in the primaries believing naively their vote meant something. Regardless of what you think about Biden, he’s done nothing wrong to trigger this insane rush to throw him out except have a very bad debate night that raised legitimate questions about his mental fitness, questions knowingly ridiculed and suppressed by the very people now seeking his demise. He’s not accused of any crime, there’s no crushing personal moral scandal. He won all his primaries, and until three weeks ago, EVERYONE on his side and in the media insisted that questions about possible dementia were out of bounds, misinformation, or “cheap fakes”. But now they’ve all changed their tune, not because he did something bad but because he’s losing to Trump. That’s his crime. And if the donors and party’s rulers can force him out as A SITTING PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, then everything we believe to be true about American democracy is false. If the President of the USA is ultimately powerless against a secretive cabal behind the curtain, then God help us. Do we really live in a country where a roomful of nameless billionaires can FORCE a president to withdraw? It’s insane. The much lamented cynicism infecting American politics would reach unprecedented depths, and any Democrat thus elected would be seen, rightly, as a stooge, tool, and puppet by most Americans, even among many who voted for them. You wanna save democracy? Then say no to this slow motion coup. I’m genuinely rooting for Joe because something much bigger is at stake here, and no one is talking about it.