Joe Biden's age has people worried he'll repeat Ruth Bader Ginsburg's mistake and refuse to step down despite the high stakes of this year's election.
  • CosmicTurtle@lemmy.worldEnglish
    242·
    9 months ago

    It might be a “broken clock is right twice a day” situation.

    Jon Stewart’s glorious return to The Daily Show covered this very topic.

    Liberals have the right to question our leadership. It’s okay for us to wonder if the president has the ability to make good decisions.

    The problem is that conservatives won’t hear the same questions for their candidate.

    • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
      155·
      9 months ago

      Liberals have the right to question our leadership.

      And those of us to the left of liberals have the right to question the leadership liberals have stuck us with.

      • Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social
        173·
        9 months ago

        Exactly. You don’t get to have orthodoxy when your party is made up of a massive coalition because of our shitty voting system.

        I don’t want to vote for Biden, but I’m gonna. And I reserve the right to be unhappy about it and express this.

        But if the Democratic Party wants to be jackboots like the Rs then democracy is already dead here.