Biden Must Resign
If the president wants to protect American democracy, he should hand over his office to Kamala Harris.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.one/post/16476649
For the good of the republic and to demonstrate new leadership before the election.
Lays out an argument about how to navigate the difficulties ahead, addressing the challenges that would result.
Horse shit
Not good enough, and also btw a violation of the rules of this community. Would you like an opportunity to change someone's mind using logical articulation rather than merely emotionally venting your random surface thoughts? e.g., perhaps while doing that you could demonstrate that you actually read the article rather than merely the title? These are weighty matters, and not to be taken lightly. But perhaps I'm the horseshit for hoping that people could have rational and logical discussions on a social media website.
Horse shit
Plenty good enough. There's absolutely no need to waste effort on a crap idea.
It isn't a weighty matter, it's a bullshit push to disrupt things leading up to the election.
Listen, I kinda hate Biden. He was a meh VP and he's been a meh president imo. Better than the only realistic alternative last go-round, and still the only realistic opposition to the Republican party. This late in the game, changing candidates is a horrible idea. It's not worthy of debate, so my "horse shit" stands.
I'm kinda surprised the Atlantic published this crap even as an opinion piece. It makes zero sense for a sitting president to resign at the end of their term while for reelection. It's just dumb.
Guess I should give him 4 more years to decide you're right then.
When it comes to voting, absolutely yes. But please note: that's not what this article is about.
Also, people thought the exact same identical thought about Hillary Clinton too. If the goal is to win, and promoting Harris as someone who can handle the job would help accomplish that goal... then it aids rather than hinders the cause?
Well anyway, it's not like any of this is up to us. I did think the article was interesting in the possibilities it presents, e.g. to potentially win the election rather than just hope that it happens despite... everything.
I can't help but notice that there's a lot of articles talking about how Joe Biden is bad when we just had a Supreme Court decision that destroys the balances of power. I wonder why.
If you have a logical argument to make, we're listening.
Trump must be beat. Biden does not seem like he has it in him to do so. Maybe he simply had a bad day? Except bullshit, bc he's in charge of his own schedule - why not rest for a week or three after his global trips and then have the debate? Oh wait, he did. Like Bill Clinton's sexual scandals, the action itself is less important than lying about it afterwards.
He's in charge of the nuclear football. And many other things. If he can't handle having a bad day, especially after weeks of resting, that worries me. Trump worries me more. Therefore it seems relevant that we cannot control other people, only ourselves. We've been down this road before, when the entire Democratic party went all-in behind Hillary fucking Clinton, and that did not turn out so well. And now here we do it again.
To be clear, if Biden doesn't step down, I will still support him - blue no matter who - however not everyone feels that way, especially younger people who might otherwise vote for Bernie Harris, but not Hillary Biden.
Anyway, I thought it was an interesting article that set forth some thoughts to consider. Obviously none of this will actually happen. The wealthy elites have blessed Biden and their decision is final, it seems. Just like in 2016, we have neoliberalism vs. fascism, with the stakes rising each time, round 3, go! After that we can continue our Russian Roulette round 4 a few years down the road again. The catch is: assuming we make it past this round. We didn't in 2016.
Biden would make a better candidate than Trump if he were on life support and we knew he'd be dead within the first week. The important part is not if he's fit for office, the question is if he's the best candidate to beat Donald Trump. As someone who's not Trump, he has an advantage that any Democrat can bank on. As the incumbent, he has an advantage that no one else can replicate. Who is popular enough to have more of an advantage than being the incumbent? Bernie Sanders? AOC? Their policies are far better than Biden's and they have celebrity, but the DNC will never nominate them, and I don't know if they'd pull in more people, because anyone who'd vote for them with any common sense would vote for Biden against Trump.
So who, exactly would he be replaced by? Understand that these pieces cause real damage to his chances if he isn't replaced, so you'd best have even 1 person in mind.
