By now most of you who are interested will have seen this TV debate. In it, US President Joe Biden displayed that he was, basically, too old and frail to compete on this stage. He repeatedly failed to end his sentences, he lost his train of thought, he ended some sentences with bizarre out of place comments that even seemed to go directly against the principles of his own Democratic party, or they fizzled out in incomprehensible drivel. He seemed to stare into mid-space slack-jawed and dull eyed in the silences. And so on and so forth. It was what we should have expected, in fact, because he has been like this for a while now. In some ways it seems cruel that he was put through this torture, in front of millions, appearing to be senile. But afterwards the verdict of the Democrat commentariat was, surprise!! - At this surprise, are we not entitled to be surprised? What did they expect from him? Why wait until now to be alerted to these facts?
The whole show was a
disaster, not just for the catastrophic performance of Biden for the Democrats,
but for US politics and democracy. The only positive that you could take from
it was that Trump did not use Biden’s obvious discomfort to his advantage,
which was sensible but also remarkably honourable from the convicted felon.
Trump lied repeatedly, as was expected, and CNN did not fact check him at all.
It was like a display of the worst possible aspects of US democracy distilled.
The last part of it, where both exchanged little grumpy digs about their
golfing prowess summed it all up. Two privileged men too old and out of touch with
too much power.
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