President Biden was dumped for no reason

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54. There were many reasons

Certainly racism and misogyny are somewhere on the list.

But there were bigger reasons, IMHO. We had foreign actors stirring up the shit about Gaza, and that includes Netanyahu at the top of that list. He is smart. He always takes his most aggressive, horrendous actions when it will most damage Democrats and/or do the least damage to Republicans. He has done this over and over. Biden bungled the issue and didn't appreciate how serious that was, but it was a very aggressive move by Netanyahu and by Putin's bots to convert that into votes against Biden or abstentions. Biden didn't have any great options, but he did nothing at all. IN politics, doing nothing is never the right decision. People can forgive a try that failed. People can't understand when they see people being slaughtered and a President making no visible effort to stop it.

We had massive voter disenfranchisement, as usual, but more than ever. And we have a virtual confession from Trump that Elon Musk took some actions to manipulate the "vote counting computers", yet you can't find an elected Democrat anywhere calling for real action on this. We have Democratic Governors in most of the states that would be the likely targets for Musk manipulating the "vote counting computers", but not one of them has even ordered a basic audit. WTF? Average people don't understand these things.

Average people don't understand why, when Biden had the opportunity to name a supermajority of the Postal Governors, we still have to live with DeJoy wrecking the USPS< canceling their electrification and crushing the sorting center capability. He has wrecked the operations at Indianapolis, Louisville and Jacsonville, with millions of packages just sitting in vast warehouses for week, even months. Why is this guy still there? It makes it hard to support Democrats when they refuse to use the power they have, and go with "Let the system work itself out. We have a strong system." People know differently.

But ultimately, this election was not lost in 2020. It was just another step along a slide of 50 years where Democrats don't take the threat to our system seriously, and somehow have convinced themselves that passively acquiescing to the Republicans at every opportunity makes Americans want to vote for Democrats. During this time, the percentage identifying as Democrats has gone from 50% to 25%.

That's why we lost. No strong leaders. No big ideas. All recent campaigns have come down to "We hate Trump, and we want abortions." There is practically no campaign time devoted to what we are FOR, other than abortions (News flash: nobody thinks abortions are inherently good. We just think it should be a personal decision.) And that lack of leadership and imagination left the path open for a personality like Biden to be elected and then claim a second candidacy.

Biden is who he has always been -- a competent, caring, thoughtful person who trusts 1000X too much in the resiliency of our system, and clearly is 15 years past his prime. That's why we lost. The seeds of this loss go back 30-40 years.

That is what it is. We can't change the past. The real problem we face now is that our current leaders (Schumer, Jeffries, Pelosi etc) have no imagination, no bold ideas, nothing that can inspire people to rally around and fight for. It isn't their fault that they have the charisma of a loaf of bread. It is OUR fault for allowing them to be our leaders.

The first step is admitting we have a problem, and far too many are nowhere near that point yet.