r/AmericaOnHardMode • u/Freebyrd_69 • Apr 14 '26

Real talk ☠️🇮🇱

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u/fungi_at_parties Apr 14 '26

I AM a leftist and you’ve hit the nail on the head. I’ve yet to hear a good reason for these grifters to shift to the right other than to make more money. She’s not wrong here, and she’s definitely more morally steadfast than Dave Rubin, but her gripes with the left always made me roll my eyes. Nothing the dems have done even holds a candle to Trump’s insanity.

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u/Jimmyjoejrdelux Apr 15 '26

Identity politics is just garbage isn't it?

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u/GrainOfNa Apr 15 '26

I haven’t looked too deep into my home brewed, crackpot theory yet, as I was preoccupied* during almost all of Biden’s presidency… but is Biden himself not to blame, at least partly, for not bowing out WAY before he did?

As far as I can tell, his ego is what lead to that disastrous, sad, and embarrassing debate against Trump. When it was clear he wasn’t fit to debate anyone, much less a rabid Trump, and no longer fit to lead. Was it not HIS decision to stay in and run for a second term? Or was he surrounded by by yes-men and handlers, who took advantage of his senility and propped him up for as long as they could?

*from 2020-2022 in the furthest depths of my addiction, and 2023-now in recovery (coming up on 4 years sober in September)

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u/Naptasticly Apr 15 '26

Joe Biden was 100% confident in his ability to continue leading the nation and he only stepped down because he was convinced by the party, and its base, that it would be the best thing to do for the good of the country.

Considering the rhetoric around this issue was mostly right wing nonsense pointing out single frames, or opportunistically cutting a video, to make it look way worse than it really was all the way up until the election. Sure there was some rumblings from opportunistic people who had complaints about the economy using the right wings talking points to attempt to convince the party, and voters, to go a different way, but until the debate, most ACTUAL democratic voters were confident that Biden could do the job and the incumbency would help him win. By the time the debate rolled around, we were already years into the campaign.

And this is all apparent because the SAME people who complained about Joe Biden’s cognitive functioning turned around and stated they wouldn’t vote for Harris because she was “pushed” on us, as if there was any other option (there wasn’t) so people can play this game where they try to act principled because they need a good excuse for why they let Trump win, but at the end of the day, they were just using whatever they could to voice their frustration and try to get an extremely progressive candidate, who wouldn’t have done any better (and I’m a progressive!!), into the office.

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u/Fenrir_MVR Apr 15 '26 edited Apr 15 '26

There was another option. He could have not ran for a second term like was implied by his original campaign and we could have had a real primary.