One American political party claims that it is fighting for democracy, to forestall a dictatorship by its’ opponent, Donald Trump. How is it then, that the party which proclaims such a noble goal can force an incumbent President of its’ own party out of an election and provide a new savior while disregarding over fourteen-million of its own members who voted for the discarded incumbent? There are only two rationales for President Biden to give up his run for a second term. Either he was a) too mentally incompetent to fulfill his duties or b) it was determined that he could not win his second term. Let us look at each of these two causes and analyze what they say about that political party and what it should mean for the United States.
If Biden is mentally incompetent to fulfill his duties, when exactly did this become the clear case? Some pundits state that it was during the debate with Trump, when Biden fumbled and mumbled his responses to the easy questions thrown at both parties. Suddenly the legacy press was amazed and outraged at his showing and there was grave concern regarding his ability to function as expected of the President. Yet it was clear that from the very beginning of his Presidency that Biden appearances were carefully crafted to protect him from prying eyes and revealing questions. The lack of spontaneous questions from the press, the list of which reporters to be called in what order, the wandering around after the last question all clearly indicated that Biden was suffering from mental problems.
The sad part of this is that the leaders of the Democratic party knew that he had cognitive issues at the time they set him up to challenge Trump in the 2020 election. Cognitive issues do not get better, they are not reversable and yet the leaders of the party were willing to gamble with the safety and security of the nation as they felt he was their best hope to defeat Trump. Aside from the sheer immorality of gambling with the safety of all Americans, it goes to show the shallowness of the talent withing the Democratic party. The doyens of the party are all well into their seventies and eighties and have lived at the government feed trough for scores of years.
The game was played, the United States was the loser as lean and hungry authoritarians and dictators across the world saw that the leader of the free world was being steered by unknown hands that clearly had not interest in showing a strong face to the world. The result was the Russian invasion of the Ukraine along with the hundreds of thousands of dead and wounded, the boldness of the Tehran regime which has led to deaths and the closing of the Suez Canal which has impacted economies around the world, the disaster of Afghanistan, etc.
On the other hand, if Biden had to go because it was viewed that he could not beat Trump, then we have a clearly un-democratic cabal of Democratic politicians who have no regard for the Constitution or the votes of Democratic voters from the primaries. This is from the party that claims that it wants to save democracy! They must destroy it to save it. Imagine what they would do if they did not want to save democracy!
But there is a third option; that both of the options above were operable so that the leaders of the party knew and played upon Biden’s weakness, were willing to gamble with our lives and futures for a momentary political advantage and were fully willing and able to throw their own dupe overboard when the going got tough. Until we hear of another reason for the putsch, we are left with these sad options. Shame on those Democrat “leaders” who have so little regard for our nation and loyalty to one of their own.
Their loyalty is to power. Nothing more, nothing less.