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[–] BallsandBayonets@lemmings.world 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The best thing for US Democracy, the people of the US, and no hyperbole the entire world, would be if Biden got hospitalized through natural illness. He'd be forced to step aside, the "Back Biden no matter what" crowd would have to back a new candidate, the "Please any Democrat except Biden" would get a new candidate, and no one looks weak (or at least not any weaker than they do already).

Then when he recovers, after the election, he can be a strong advisor to the new Democratic president.

[–] IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I kind of agree but if Biden is incapacitated there will be a strong push to give his spot to Harris and I can see her losing to Trump.

It's a shit situation all round and the blame should be on Biden. He should've served his one term and gone down in history as the guy who steadied the ship after Trump but I guess his ego and hubris prevented that.

How do we get to an open primary and how do we get that done as fairly and as quickly as possible?

[–] rekorse@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Everyone's hindsight bias is on fire it seems. Is it possible that, at the time, the decisions made more sense? I dont see how its productive to think of ways to change the past. Learn and move on.