There are times when it’s cruel to be kind.
At some point in the not too distant future, the quality of my blogging will drop below a certain threshold. (Maybe it already has.) At that point, I hope my best commenters will tell me so. You won’t be doing me any favors by hiding my senility from me—it would merely cause me to suffer even more from the indignities of old age, and to lose whatever meager reputation I might have once had.
I see reports that top Dems are suggesting that conversations about Biden’s obvious incapacity to govern be kept private. Maybe that will work, but I doubt it. If you care about Biden’s long-term interests, you will go public with your misgivings. Despite Biden’s claims that he’s staying in the race, I still believe that a large enough critical mass of Democrats could nudge him out.
Ordinary Democrats also have an important role to play. Next time you are contacted by a pollster, don’t blow them off. Take the poll and indicate that you would support Trump over Biden, but any other Democrat over Trump. Would that be lying? Probably, but in this case it’s your patriotic duty to lie, in the same way as if you were called upon by the secret police when hiding refugees in your basement.
Yes, Harris would probably lose, but at least it would no longer be a humiliating defeat. She could campaign on the (truthful) argument that Trump is clearly too old and senile to be president. Wouldn’t that be ironic?
PS. Soviet commenters Sara/Ricardo/Edward have already informed me of my senility. But given that their combined IQ is below that of a turnip, I don’t put a great deal of weight on their opinion.
PPS. How about George Clooney? He looks presidential. Or how about the first Congressional Democrat to have the guts to publicly say that the emperor had no clothes?