@Celeste_pewter It's not too late for President Biden to step down in favour of someone who would continue his policies but wouldn't be accused of being too old.
It also means there's serious risk that he will do something while the public eye is upon him that will strengthen that impression in popular opinion — even if it's something that could happen to anyone.
My point is, the notion that someone would let Trump win, thereby ending American democracy, just because Biden is three years older, is batshit crazy. Anyone who's so detached from reality that they're vulnerable to such low-quality propaganda would be equally swayed by any other bullshit.
They'd refuse to vote for Gavin Newsom because he styles his hair with yak mucus. Kamala Harris wouldn't deserve their vote because she secretly adopted a space alien baby.
@barney
I'm sure you're right about some of the voters in the 86% in the article I linked to. And I don't know who among Democrats has the best chance of defeating Mr. Trump — maybe Pres. Biden really is the best of the lot. But I look at the polls and I worry.
I'm very worried too. But the thing that worries me is the fact that most Americans are now deeply insane and unable to comprehend reality. For that, we can blame garbage pseudojournalism like that ABC News article, which forcibly drags people away from sanity.
In 2016, the Kremlin-GOP propaganda team convinced the entire American political press, even MSNBC, to push the lie that Hillary Clinton had some secret horrible mystery disease. I watched the debates terrified that she might emit a single tiny sneeze, and thereby cause a fascist revolution.
The solution was not to give Hillary an antihistamine. The solution was to somehow drag Americans back to reality.
@barney Dragging people to reality is a great idea, but it's hard to know how to achieve it. Antihistamines, on the other hand, I know where to buy them.
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