I know it’s sort of trite, but every time I see one of these stories, it reminds me of how difficult it was to convince my dad to stop driving.
I mean I get it. We’re all people, we want our dignity. I was diagnosed bipolar and my biggest fear was having a mental breakdown and being locked away for the rest of my life. I hate the thought of not being able to be my own person with the freedom to navigate my destiny. I take my meds, I eat right, I exercise, I go to therapy, and I do so so I don’t end up involuntarily sanctioned. I want to build my own career, find love, see the world and experience what there is to experience and I don’t want that to go away.
Older folks are still humans who experience the same emotions as we all do, and they also want their dignity like we all do. It’s easy for us to pass these off as grumblings of senile folks, but from their perspective they were at the top of their careers yesterday and now they are being shoved out by society.
Biden needs to drop out, but I understand his hurt.
I know it’s a tired cliche, but I wish I had more upvotes to give you.
I didn’t want to go into any details, partly because I was counting on people who had gone through the same thing to just get it, but mostly because it would take at least a couple of paragraphs to even scratch the surface of the whole complex issue, and that wasn’t directly relevant at the time.
And you nailed it.
I clearly remember - the worst part of the whole ordeal wasn’t the times when he refused to face the fact that his faculties had diminished to the point that he could no longer drive safely - that was just frustrating. The worst part was the look of fear and dejection he’d get when he’d let down his guard enough to actually face that fact - those times when I could see that he fully understood and really agreed, and it crushed him.
So… yeah.
I feel angry and betrayed that he decided to hold out this long in the first place potentially fucking up the works for another candidate. If he drops out that is.
Seriously. He’s said twice that he’s not dropping out and if he’s serious then he needs to campaign like never before and silence all the critics. If you’re in it then get in it to win Joe!
He’s tired and such right now apparently, and can’t even campaign, but also very determined to not drop out. 😭
The writing has been on the wall for months. If his debate performance was regarded as warmly as his last SoTU we wouldn’t need to have this discussion but when a large portion of your base is abandoning an incumbent, you need to read the room.
You gotta admit he caught a bump on that last SoTU though. Fox News was legit scared of that Biden.
Once again America is going to be set back multiple centuries because an old fuck didn’t know when to quit.
…AGAIN.
I’m kind of more inclined to blame Trump and the GOP, but you are not wrong…
The word you’re looking for is “complicit”
Back when the left actually existed, before 80 years of violent worldwide political suppression, we called people like the DNC “collaborators”.
The window for this to work is getting real narrow
Do you think it is still open? Any new candidate is going to get “sorry, our state’s deadline has passed - we’ll remove Biden from the ballot, but can’t possibly register the new person” from some critical states, it’ll get litigated throughout the rest of the year, and the supreme court will eventually rubber-stamp it.
From Wikipedia: “Although the Ohio ballot access issue was resolved, the DNC has stated that it will continue with a virtual roll call vote [1-7 Aug] in order to avoid litigation from Republicans”.
