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GTFOH with this bullshit.
It's really a shame that the President makes every single decision on his own and handles absolutely everything by himself. It would be a better system if we had some sort of "cabinet" of advisiors all focused on different areas of running the country. It would be more like an "administration" instead of just what we have, which is one single guy who does everything and look, Biden is too old to do all that. If only there was some other way that he could have some assistance....
I suspect that most voters won't even think about that. This is the same voterbase that likes to vote based on who they'd rather have a beer with. I'd rather have a more informed populace, obviously, but the powers that be keep control by encouraging political ignorance, or failing that, learned helplessness. In the U.S., people legitimately think liberalism is left wing. How many Americans are capable of actually defining socialism? I don't want to infantilize people, but we've got to work with what we have, and what we have is a deeply propagandized population that's choosing apathy and despair in the specter of fascism. Joe Biden's approval rating is 37%. People do not like him. The media keeps hammering him because they want Trump back(Trump brings views and much of the mainstream media has been captured by billionaires). The margin of victory in the swing states last time was so slim that a few thousand staying home this time around would flip it. I would be fine with another Biden term. We could Weekend at Bernie's him through and everything would be fine. I just have severe doubts that people would see it my way, and so I feel his electability has tanked.
I really hope I'm wrong.
I suggest you look up presidential approval rating statistics for 2nd term races.
I did, actually, in another comment further down the thread.