1) Suzanne Moore, “The Democrats are denying reality by refusing to admit Biden is unfit; The party are fooling themselves and the electorate that the 81-year-old is up to the job. Is this the best they have to offer?” The Telegraph, July 2, 2024 (3:10 pm);
2) Matt Viser, “Biden is seeing a different world than other Democrats; At his rallies, he is embraced by enthusiastic crowds. Outside, others in the party want him to step aside, Washington Post, July 8, 2024 (6:49 pm ET);
“Everyone in the party concedes that it is Biden’s decision — and his alone — whether to continue his reelection bid.”
Everyone can see the Captain is drink–with is own power, his own ambition, his own illusion that “Only I can fix it”–and that he is steering the steamboat towards the waterfall. If no one wrests the steering
wheel from his death grip, the steamboat will go over the waterfall. and everyone will perish.
His delusions and hus iron-willed resistance to hearing rational arguments demonstrate, beyond a doubt, that the steering wheel must be wrested from his grip.