So Much for Democracy
The installation of Kamala Harris by a committee of donors and party big shots is anti-democratic, elitist, and disrespectful to voters
It’s been a crazy few weeks. Joe Biden finally quit the presidential race. We heard it first through a tweet using a suspiciously unofficial letterhead, and then he disappeared for a week. It was weird.
I don’t know where they had him or what was going on, but when he appeared, his Oval Office speech was mediocre at best, full of sentimentality and short on explanations for why exactly he was quitting after saying just a few days earlier he would stay. Word is Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer threatened him with removal under the 25th Amendment, which is eminently plausible.
I have the feeling that Biden’s endorsement of Kamala Harris was revenge, a monkey wrench to mess up the rigged “blitz primary” being toyed with to install whoever Obama, Pelosi, and Schumer had in mind. As much as they wanted to control things, he knew the affirmative-action-obsessed Democrats could not easily coordinate against her.
