So, let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late . . . President Joe Biden should get out of the way of the 2024 election, and soon. He is unlikely to win reelection next year, and unlikely to take the steps our world needs if reelected. Instead of responding to polls showing that most Democrats don't want him to run, Biden is insisting that - he will run,
- he will not debate other candidates, and
- he can choose which states hold the first Democratic primaries in order to bias the outcome in his favor.
Better candidates would emerge if Biden were to step aside. Just in recent days, Biden has taken destructive and unpopular steps on numerous issues. He has become, not a climate president, but a fossil fuel drilling and pipeline-approving president. He has become the preeminent military spending president. One day he appoints Republican warmonger Elliott Abrams to a government post. Another he ships cluster bombs to Europe. Biden's recent actions do damage to the world, but benefit Republican and third-party candidates. Biden squeaked out a victory against an unpopular incumbent. Now he's running as an unpopular incumbent. That's bad for his chances, bad for the limited respect many have for their government, and bad for participation in self-governance -- or what Biden likes to refer to at NATO meetings as "democracy." Please click here to sign this petition: To President Joe Biden: Please do not run for re-election. Step aside and allow an open Democratic primary process in 2024.  |
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