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[Runa216]

Ryuu96 said:

I know Biden is old but it feels a bit odd to talk about "what if he dies before the election" all of a sudden, I mean sure he could die tomorrow (as could anyone) but other than that it ain't like he's showing signs that he's on deaths door, Lol. The fella likely has an entire army of medical professionals around him as any president would as well.

I would like someone else younger to run but I don't see many alternatives capable of winning the election (Bernie is both incapable and older than Biden), America is still largely centrist and it's also risky to replace Biden when he's the incumbent. I do think Newsom will be the one Democrats throw their weight behind in 2028 though and from what I've seen, he would easily beat any of the current Republican challengers in debates.

I hope Americans don't cut their nose off to spite their face though. If they think Trump won't be at minimum equally as bad for Palestinians as Biden is then they're in for a nasty surprise, alongside that Ukraine would be thrown under the bus (congrats, two genocides) and minorities in America would be utterly fucked once again (especially trans-people) and Trump showing utter disregard for law of the land.

It'd be a disaster for Middle-East, Ukraine, America, NATO and Europe.

IT's funny because I don't know any democrats/liberals who actually LIKE Biden...we just all sort of unanimously agree he's the best option we have and virtually anything is better than...well, pretty much any republican. Because republicans are conservative/regressive and as we've seen these last few years, that's actively, provably bad for a significant portion of the population. 

We don't like biden but we LOATHE Trump (And pretty much any conservative 'leader'. So we vote biden. I wish we had Bernie, though. He actually had some good ideas. Like the Canadian NDP, VERY good ideas that are proven to work but require so much fundamental change in the public eye it'll never happen. At this point America is so close to an actual civil war between the right and the left I don't see any actual positive (or negative) change happening any time soon. No matter what democrats do or try to do, half the senate will vote against it becuase the democrats want it. And likewise, anything a republican does or wants to do will be blocked by Democrats regardless of whether it's good or not (though let's be honest, like 95% of republican policies are demonstrably bad for the population, the economy, and the environment).