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A message to wavering Democrats (lemmy.sdf.org)

submitted 3 months ago by thagoat@lemmy.sdf.org to c/usa@lemmy.ml

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I know that it's popular to dismiss President Biden. I get it. He's old. This is the first election featuring the 2 oldest candidates, ever. So what? The future of the WORLD is literally dependent on this election. To boot Biden from the ticket and try to bootstrap another candidate is madness. Booting this incumbent and hoping his VP will succeed is like firing the cook and hoping the dishwasher will give you Michelin-quality food. Stick with the old man, and figure out a way to enact his popular policies while also expanding the Supreme Court, enacting term limits and limiting "Christian" Nationalists.

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[–] Carrolade@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

True. It would still be unethical unless he was actually medically unfit, though. Regardless of debate performance, he's probably not actually senile yet, which they would know better than we would just from working with the guy regularly.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It would still be unethical unless he was actually medically unfit

Which he clearly is.

Regardless of debate performance, he's probably not actually senile yet

Hard disagree there.

which they would know better than we would just from working with the guy regularly.

Or they'd know better how to hide and deny it for the sake of their own careers.

[–] Carrolade@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago

Disagreement is fine. Awareness and intelligence are objectively measurable things though. They're not slipping up names, like say, calling one child a different child's name or not being able to deal with a gish gallop of falsehoods. The medical bar is much higher than what we lay people might judge from our standards of "normal".

I doubt VP Harris is hiding any form of disability for her own career, since it would not help her career. She would be best served personally by having the most competent administration possible, or leading it herself.

Conspiracies are fun, but they tend to fall apart when careful analysis is applied.