Are Democrats really this incompetent?

Given the Democrats’ past procedural competence, it’s hard to tell if they’ve really gotten themselves in a corner or if they still have several aces up their sleeves.

For the past 3 years, I’ve felt something was amiss with the Democrats and their bench strength. For a team that plays to win, no matter what, they seemed to have burned all their boats without regard to future possibilities. As I wrote in February:

It became apparent three years ago [ed: That is, 2021] that Biden would not be able to run in 2024 due to age-related issues. It was even doubtful that he would finish his one term. The not-so-funny joke is that his protective ace card in the hole was Kamala Harris, who would become the incumbent, which scared many Democrats. To win in 2020, the Democrats had to burn the ships, leaving no credible candidates on the national stage but Biden.

The party placed themselves between a rock and a hard place by going all in on Biden’s presidency, combined with ‘the first black woman’ as V.P. This meant they could not be grooming, developing, and promoting any other future candidates without appearing racist. Doing so would signal that Harris won’t have a future shot, and for Democrats and their base, that would be kryptonite.

Burning all the ships in the 2020 primaries got them a win, an action known as “eating your seed corn.” The short-term benefit comes at an enormous cost.

Democrats knocked off some promising future candidates and, more importantly, failed to set up two or three leaders who could be groomed to run in 2024 and beyond, people who would have the gravitas to win in the future. They avoided this obligation because to do so would have required facing Jill Biden’s wrathful question:...

“Why do the democRATs need “good” (meaning evil with competence) candidates when they have voter fraud perfected and unelected deep state to run things?“

Precisely!!

This author is VERY naive.

2020 proved to me, that my suspicions were correct. - We may play the voting ‘game’, but We, the People don’t really elect our “representatives”; we are without representation.

Remember that old thing… something about ‘taxation without representation’???..

Carlin was right - “..our government is a big club… and YOU ain’t in it.”

No need for that!

Folks… this IS 0bamas third term.

He’s running for his FOURTH. Whoever they ‘run’ doesn’t matter; they’ve got the most sophisticated voter fraud system in place.. right, Joe Biden??..
if was a slip up, but like small children, their slip ups reveal truths..

The field of Democrat candidates running in 2020 was pathetic and were being eclipsed by socialist Bernie Sanders. Knowing that a Sanders candidacy would be a non starter against Trump, Democrat insiders sandbagged the other candidates and picked Biden giving him a grandfather persona, portraying him as a uniter for the country and pulled out all the election stealing tricks to push Biden into the White House. Picking Harris as VP was simply pandering. I think the plan was a one term Biden presidency while the insiders groomed a new candidate for 2024.

This plan got derailed by the success in the 2020 elections when an expected red tidal wave didn’t happen and convinced many that Biden might deliver again in 2024. As insurance an orchestrated lawfare campaign was launched to take out Trump. Things got complicated by Biden’s rapidly advancing dementia, the cabal who were increasingly running the country as Biden’s mind continued to slip and Jill Biden and her cadre of loyalists who would not give up on the power , prestige and lucrative influence peddling that enriched the Biden family.

I think that the Democrats are victims of their own hubris. The lawfare campaign has backfired and only increased Trump’s support. Biden’s dementia was on full display in the debate and could no longer be covered up and now has become a major liability even in down ballot races. There are few options left for the Democrats to hold power and these would sadly include assassinating Trump, creating some national emergency to delay the elections indefinitely or a coup to install Obama as president

The most likely plan, at this time, is for Joe to stay in office. At the convention he announces he will not accept the nomination with a tearful speech about vague health issues. The Democrats will then turn their nomination to Harris - because she can keep the campaign money - and someone obnoxious like Newsome or Whitmer will be named VP.

I give this an 80% chance of happening.

The D’s will push the young, progressive, and diverse aspect of their ticket and it will be a constant chorus of old white guy verse young diverse womyn.

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