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In reply to the discussion: Some Democrats start calling for Biden to step aside and 'throw in the towel' on 2024 [View all]shrike3
(5,370 posts)I suspect historians will be too busy sifting through the smoke and ash to worry about the opposition.
Hitler, Goebbels, Eichmann, Mengele, et. al. get a lot more ink than Hindenberg. A lot more books written about them. I suspect most people don't even know the latter's name.
I'll ask the same question I've asked repeatedly. Who should be the candidate instead? Who polls better against Trump than Joe?
And, frankly, it'll be the American people's fault if Trump gets back in. Nobody else's. A potted plant should be preferable to him. Yet he got more votes in 2020 than in 2016 and only barely lost the Electoral College. Who did that? The voters. Who don't pay attention. Who don't even know how their own government works. And they don't want to know. They'd rather watch cat videos. They'd rather have a candidate who entertains them than promotes solid policy. Who's to blame for this? In a representative democracy voters are expected to be educated and well-informed. If they aren't, it's on them. If America goes down, it'll be the people's fault. Plain and simple.