Before I start this post, I'd like to make a few things abundantly clear:
1. This is not a partisan post.
2. This is not a partisan post.
3. This is not a partisan post.
Listen. The two guys that I would like to see run for President in 2020 aren't going to. Charlie Baker is too smart to run. And Adam Schiff knows he can't win and got out early. So quite literally, I don't have a dog in the fight as it were.
The following consists of observations made over the last two days regarding the Democratic Debates on CNN.
As I wrote to Stephen Colbert last night (offering him this opening joke for tonight's monologue): The Democrats are attacking Joe Biden so much that the Republicans are considering running him in 2020.
I am convinced at this moment that the Democratic Party does not want to win the Presidency in 2020. No, I'm serious. I know they say they want to win, and many of them actually do want to win, I think, but as a whole they can't possibly actually really want to win because it means not winning on their personal terms.
If they REALLY wanted to win, they would not be attacking and breaking down their only hope of defeating Donald Trump like he's the Berlin Wall in 1989.
They would be sacrificing their current placement in important ways, falling on their own swords to ensure that the only candidate who statistically has a chance of winning this thing gets the chance to do so. I'm sorry, children, I really am. If you come at me and say "Well, the statistics will change"--I'm sorry. I am.
America likes to vote in Old White Guys.
They've deviated from Old White Guy only a handful of times. Once, obviously, was Obama. They also voted in JFK and Clinton, who were not Old in the sense that they were not over 50 when they took office (43 and 46, respectively). Particularly in the modern era, voters like them old, male, and WASP-y. It's hard to think of Jimmy Carter when he took office (52) or W (54) as old, but they're not exactly Mayor Pete (37).
Maybe Americans as a whole think that age confers wisdom.
And no, I'm really sorry, but America is not going to vote in their hard-nosed, fact-finding 10th Grade English teacher who made her entire class rewrite that one paper on Nathaniel Hawthorne three times because they just weren't making the grade in her book; she followed this with making them research what feminism really stands for and then doing class presentations on it that the whole school has to come listen to. I like Elizabeth Warren on the whole, and she comes across as smart, focused, and exactly like that 10th Grade English teacher. I'm guessing that most Americans are a little scared of her (myself included), and I do honestly think that entire sets of white men would worry that as President she'd find their porn stash and would send them to their room without dinner.
Listen, I'm not saying I want an old white guy necessarily, but I'm seeing just how hard the Red parts of the country are entrenching into conservatism, meaning to not change the status quo. Status quo=Old White Dude. I'm sorry that people aren't ready for an African-American female with Native roots who is also a speed touch-typist (with all apologies to Berke Breathed).
But they're not. Obama got in for the same reason that Dwight D. Eisenhower did: people had had enough of one party and picked the other. It was a good thing for America to show that she's grown, but now the needle has swung the other way. I'm sorry about that. But people who felt shamed and silenced by Social Justice Warriors during Obama's tenure (not unlike the above 10th Grade English teacher) are finding a voice in a man with all the progressive stance of Anti-Tom literature.
So, if the Democrats really wanted to win this thing, they'd be putting the two Old White Guys in the same debate and letting the American people see, head to head, which one they'd prefer in the driver's seat. (To note: America is a country of moderates.) I'm not saying that I necessarily want either of the two oldest candidates, but I do know that one of them has what it takes to defeat Donald Trump, a man I know way too much about and wish I didn't, a man who was very tight with Jeffrey Epstein (look it up), a man who should be in prison for things that have nothing to do with America as a whole (and quite a few things that do).
I also know that the candidate who can defeat Trump has issues. I'm not blind, and I'm from Syracuse (Biden attended Syracuse University for his law degree, and we pretty much co-opt anyone who attends SU as being Syracusan; Carmelo Anthony is considered a saint in that town). I know quite a bit about Biden, because he has always had a little extra coverage in the news cycle in Syracuse. Not everything I know is good. Do I think he's fit to be President? Yes, I do.
So, my question to the myriad of Democrats who are still in this race is this: are you patriots? Are you willing to put country over party and over your personal ideals for the good of the whole?
Then get out of the way.
#BidenHarris2020
PS: Tulsi Gabbard is a Russian plant. Yes, really.
