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New Theory: Biden staying in the race until the convention is an intentional way to avoid having actual primaries and allowing the party elites to just choose their own candidate (hexbear.net)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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They don't trust voters not to choose a succdem and offend pwecious widdle capital, and they're worried they couldn't fix a second election after 2020 almost went to Bernie despite their best efforts. So now they're just propping up the old man strategically until it's too late and they can put whatever blob priest into office they like without the unwashed masses messing it up with their "democratic will" or whatever. Technocrats must sit the eternal throne whether the people want it or not.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

They cannot replace Biden now because too much money and interests have been tied to Ukraine already. They’re stuck with Biden no matter what. Kind of a checkmate situation unless Biden can pull off something extraordinary, something huge that could change the national discourse overnight.

He can always die. I don't think him dying would actually change that much. The issue is more about him being unseated by a rival political faction than him not being the candidate. If he were to die and a last testimony, real or fabricated, were to materialize pointing to Harris (or any other centrist) as Biden's appointed "successor," then the gravy train will continue to truck along since Biden's personal network can save political face and just coalesce around the successor. Being unseated by a rival faction is politically humiliating and means Biden's personal network being replaced by the rival candidate's own personal network, but an 81 year old man with dementia passing away is an act of God.