He’s old as fuck, definitely lost a step, and didn’t know when to throw in the towel, but I believe he’s always sought what is best for his constituents. He’s someone who truly believes in public service
Wtf u mean it's not his decision to not run again. He literally just has to say no.
The DNC had 4 years to show off new prodigies bc it was obvious Biden only won bc he wasn't Trump, and even though he handled his presidency will, you can't win after the turmoil citizens went through with COVID and the economic impact COVID had.
Biden was seen as a weak president for 3 years and the DNC pushed him to the front anyway instead of bringing in new politicians who people could actually get behind
Biden did not step down and pulled a RBG 4 years after she died.
You do refuse when the same DNC that lost to Trump the first time and only won against Trump bc he was fresh in the public mind the second time runs another terrible campaign. Biden is a man who knows how politics works and that he could never have won the reelection after the damage that COVID and global inflation did to his image. He literally could've had Harris run in his place and held primaries with other young Democrats. Instead he said he would run again and was pulled bc he was too old
I have to believe there are younger democrats doing just that. But without fair media coverage they don't stand a chance of gaining enough support to reach the highest levels of government.
It's almost as if the DNC is the Democratic platform designed to boost these people into the public view but they don't agree with any Democrat under the age of 60 bc it's run by ancients.
It's much easier talking about "younger Democrat" as a vague concept than choosing an actual person Democrat voters would still find a reason to hate their guts.
I don't know, it's almost as if there were four years to promote different Democrats. And they could have had their primary instead of everyone just getting out of the way for Biden so we should actually hear their platforms
I think what a lot of people looked past was that in the end voting for Biden was a vote of confidence that he could choose a good cabinet, good advisors that aligned with his values, and differ to them when needed. We currently have a puppet president figurehead so I feel like this shouldn’t be a crazy thing to say. The goal was always to keep Trump out.
My first choice approach would have been to publicize the successor as soon as the 2020 election had been decided so it was clear what our next step was. But the truth is that we really don’t know the full story or actual reason that Biden ran again, we don’t know what actually happened behind the scenes, all we had was hearsay. Personally I don’t think it was ego, I saw it as a personal sacrifice. There was no clear successor to pass the torch to (which IMO wasn’t Biden’s job to decide) and incumbents usually get a boost, and differing to Kamala was always gonna look like a Hail Mary. On paper, with the circumstances at hand, it looked like the safest option to keep him in. Even if it wasn’t the right one.
Biden sought an orderly integration of society, not just forced integration in schools. He feared busing would anger white people whose children would be sent to “inferior” schools in urban neighborhoods and from black people, whose children would come to resent conditions in the “ghetto.”
Earlier in the hearing, Biden said he thought mandatory busing had “repercussions” in terms of the “ultimate objective of seeing that we get integrated neighborhoods, of seeing that we eventually eliminate job discrimination, of seeing that we change housing patterns, of seeing alteration of the tax structure.” In short, he believed that bussing would be counterproductive to the ultimate goal of a wholly integrated society.
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u/Mustang_Dragster Feb 21 '25
He had a crap ton of flaws, but at least he didn’t sell out to russia