When voters are asked this question – “Should Joe Biden run for a second term as President?”, the overwhelming answer in every poll is NO (well over 60%). This number is so large that it cuts deeply across party lines. Mathematically, it can’t be just Republicans.
The primary reason is Biden’s debilitated mental state, which is obvious to any objective observer. The outcomes of his policy pursuits are also contributing factors (southern border, economic recession, cultural decay).
Despite all this, there is still a strong likelihood that Biden will win or come close to winning the 2024 presidential election. This will be true regardless of who his opponent is. How is this possible?
There are three factors, each of which alone could carry Biden to another victory. Some combination of these three is the most likely scenario:
- The vast majority of voters who are dependent on government social services will vote for the Democrat candidate regardless of who it is.
- States that lack strong voter ID laws, make heavy use of unsolicited mail-in ballots, and allow the counting of ballots for an extended period beyond election day are much more likely to experience fraud. In a close election, it won’t take much to tip the scales.
- Democrat voters will vote for an ideology, not a person.1 The qualities of the person, including physical and/or mental capacity, as well as the ability to lead and inspire a loyal following, won’t matter. We witnessed a sad example of this last year in Pennsylvania with the election of stroke-impaired John Fetterman to the US Senate.
On the Republican side, it is first and foremost about the person running. The two top Republican candidates, Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis, have demonstrable leadership skills (Trump in business, DeSantis as governor). Both enjoy very loyal followings, and both are physically and mentally vibrant. While some Republicans will vote purely on ideology, the majority are voting for the person, and what they believe that person can and will do for the country.
There is nothing inherently wrong with voting for an ideology. However, when it results in a weak or incapacitated elected official whose policies are being chosen and enforced by unelected bureaucrats, it creates a problem. These unelected bureaucrats are not accountable to anyone and generally are not even visible to the public. They are free to pursue the agenda of the deep state, which may be wholly in opposition to the goals and campaign promises of the office holder. Statesmanship activities (e.g., meeting with foreign leaders, holding news conferences, giving speeches) are a big part of the job as President or Senator. In these instances, the “face” of the country is the elected official, not an ideology or an unknown group of bureaucrats. If the elected official is physically incapable of performing these duties or can’t speak accurately and consistently to the “official” policy position as crafted by his/her office, that is a really big problem. This is exactly what we have now with Joe Biden.
Voting for an ideology irrespective of the person who would get elected to an office can lead to another horrible side effect which is clearly in play now – family members of the elected official exerting undue influence in the case of a physically or mentally unfit office holder. Family members of the office holder, as well as personal assistants and longtime staff workers, become beneficiaries of the perks that come with that office. Not wanting to relinquish those perks can create a dilemma for those family members if the office holder is no longer up to the physical/mental demands of the job.
This shouldn’t be a difficult choice for a family to make. A caring and responsible family, particularly the spouse, would encourage or even insist that it was time their loved one stepped away from office for health and safety reasons. But the stature, benefits, and popularity of an office holder that extend to family members can be intoxicating. It is painfully obvious when a spouse is captured by these trappings and begins to value them over any concerns for their spouse’s health. In extreme cases, like those of Jill Biden and Gisele Fetterman, it amounts to spousal abuse.
That selfish irresponsibility is also displayed by party officials and the staff members of debilitated office holders. This is happening right now in the case of Senator Diane Feinstein. Senator Feinstein can’t even remember that she recently spent over a month in the hospital, yet somehow her “handlers”, and many leaders of the Democrat Party, have deemed her fit for duty as a US Senator.
That the offices of President Biden, Senator Fetterman, and Senator Feinstein are being run by unelected staffers and bureaucrats appears not only acceptable to Democrat voters, but desirable to Democrat Party leaders. What could be better for party elites and major donors than being able to imprint their own policies into federal government operations by way of these “Manchurian candidates”? They get all the benefits without any of the risks.
We believe this is why the Democrat party is wholeheartedly supporting President Biden’s reelection even though many of their own voters don’t want him to run again. The message being sent to up-and-coming Democrat politicians is this – don’t bother going to the trouble and expense of running for office, just get yourself a staff position for an older and/or mentally deteriorating officeholder. Your chances of influencing or even making policy are more immediate and at much lower cost and risk.
So, despite the fact that our elderly, cognitively diminished Commander-in-Chief is by any objective measure unfit to hold office, much less run for a second term, here we are. The forces that wish to control the path of our country without oversight or restraint are propping him up in “Weekend at Bernie’s” fashion. Meanwhile they pursue their own objectives without public accountability. The world sees an incompetent Commander-In-Chief, and so our safety and position in the world is threatened. Any foreign adversary can see we are rudderless. Despite all that, the three factors listed above may deliver the win to Biden, with disastrous consequences for the United States.
1 You might be thinking this wasn’t true in 2008, because Democrats voted for the “person” Barak Obama. We don’t buy it. A big part of the Democrat ideology is race and identity politics. We’re convinced that most Democrats (and some Republicans) were infatuated with the “idea”, not the person, of a black President. Given his very weak resume and complete lack of demonstrable leadership experience, we’re also convinced that if Barak Obama were white, he would’ve lost that election.