Ch 4.8 | The Democrats and Biden are exploiting our rigged system
Biden launched his reelection campaign at Valley Forge, Pa., and spoke passionately of our Democracy. He said:
America made a vow. Never again would we bow down to a king. ... Today, we’re here to answer the most important of questions. Is democracy still America’s sacred cause?
I have the same question for the president!
I am adamantly opposed to a second term for Donald Trump, but Biden and the Democratic Party that he is supposed to lead are not much better when it comes to subverting our democracy.
Trump's election denialism is disgusting. And it is galling that his foot soldiers are all paying the price for the fraud he perpetrated, while he continues to spread his lies while leading the GOP. But, let's not forget that prominent Democrats also denied the legitimacy of George W. Bush’s two elections — the second one no less than the first.
The Democrats in Florida and North Carolina are choosing their nominating delegates in 2024 without even holding a real primary — without a single vote from a single citizen of those states.
In addition, Delaware’s election commissioner, Anthony Albence, announced his intent to remove No Labels Delaware from 2024 election ballots. The right to obtain a ballot line is just as protected by the U.S. Constitution as the right to register to vote. One right is useless without the other. This is an example of another attack on the freedom of Americans to choose their elected representatives.
Is that what Biden calls supporting and preserving our democracy?
I agree with Bret Stephens when he says:
That’s why warnings from Biden and others about the risk Trump poses to democracy are likely to fall flat even with many moderate voters.
When liberal partisans try to suppress democracy in the name of saving democracy, they aren’t helping their cause politically or legally.
They are merely confirming the worst stereotypes about their own hypocrisy.
It's a joke! Biden is the leader of the Democratic Party and the leader of the "free world!" Is this what he stands for? If he believed a word he uttered in his speech he would be condemning these acts by his party to subvert our democracy.
But he won't!
He's a career politician and part of the political industrial complex. The parties are a busines that exist to win at all costs. They seem only to care about themselves and their sponsors. It's abundantly clear the duopoly will do anything it can to stay in power.
We are at a crossroads as a country. It sincerely does not matter whether you are an independent (like me), a Democrat or a Republican, we need to break out of our echo chambers and open our minds!
In “Dean Phillips Has a Warning for Democrats,” Tim Alberta makes the case that there is a "lack of competition within the Democratic Party."
Does this sound familiar?
The article continues:
If the data is correct, over 50 percent of Democrats want a different nominee—and yet there’s only one out of 260 Democrats in the Congress saying the same thing? Phillips no longer wonders whether there’s something wrong with him. He believes there’s something wrong with the Democratic Party—a “disease” that discourages competition and shuts down dialogue and crushes dissent.
Phillips said his campaign for president won’t simply be about the “generational schism” that pits clinging-to-power Baby Boomers against the rest of the country. If he’s running, the congressman said, he’s running on all the schisms that divide the Democrats: cultural and ideological, economic and geographic. He intends to tell some “hard truths” about a party that, in its attempt to turn the page on Trump, he argued, has done things to help move him back into the Oval Office. He sounded at times less like a man who wants to win the presidency, and more like someone who wants to draw attention to the decaying state of our body politic.
One survey showed 70 percent of Democrats under 35 wanting a different nominee; another showed swing-state voters siding with Trump over Biden on a majority of policy issues, and independents roundly rejecting “Bidenomics,” the White House branding for the president’s handling of the economy. “These are not numbers that you can massage,” Phillips said. “Look, just because he’s old, that’s not a disqualifier. But being old, in decline, and having numbers that are clearly moving in the wrong direction? It’s getting to red-alert kind of stuff.”
In 2022, Phillips was one of the first Democratic officials to call for Biden not to run for re-election. For more than a year, he urged someone — anyone — to mount a primary challenge to a vulnerable president.
In poll after poll, a majority of voters — including loyal Democrats — say they’re frustrated with a Biden-Trump rematch and want more options.
Competition in politics matters and we all need to become advocates for political reform.