I wonder how much of this is Biden being unwilling to accept the fact that he’s not stepping out of the race on his own terms.
It would be one thing if Biden died of natural causes while in office. Or making a conscious decision not to run again (for any reason or no reason at all). Or even losing the election in November. It’s a completely different thing to accept that you are simply unable to perform your duties any more, and even more difficult to accept the fact that everyone around you knows it too. Most people cannot handle that no matter what their position is in life. It’s almost instinctual to want to fight on as long as you think you can. And nobody wants to admit that they just can’t, not even to themselves. Now imagine going through that when you’re doing the most powerful job on the planet, and the entire world is watching.
And now Biden is making the exact same mistake that RBG just did, and others have done before her – staying in the job far longer than they should have instead of stepping down on their own terms when they can basically choose their successor. And RBG’s dying words were her realizing what a huge mistake that was. Biden is going down the same path. Every day he stays in the race is a day that his successor isn’t on the campaign trail making sure we don’t lose our country to Trump.
I wonder how much of this is Biden being unwilling to accept the fact that he’s not stepping out of the race on his own terms.
It would be one thing if Biden died of natural causes while in office. Or making a conscious decision not to run again (for any reason or no reason at all). Or even losing the election in November. It’s a completely different thing to accept that you are simply unable to perform your duties any more, and even more difficult to accept the fact that everyone around you knows it too. Most people cannot handle that no matter what their position is in life. It’s almost instinctual to want to fight on as long as you think you can. And nobody wants to admit that they just can’t, not even to themselves. Now imagine going through that when you’re doing the most powerful job on the planet, and the entire world is watching.
And now Biden is making the exact same mistake that RBG just did, and others have done before her – staying in the job far longer than they should have instead of stepping down on their own terms when they can basically choose their successor. And RBG’s dying words were her realizing what a huge mistake that was. Biden is going down the same path. Every day he stays in the race is a day that his successor isn’t on the campaign trail making sure we don’t lose our country to Trump.