Would your grandchild prefer that you let him or her drive?
I suspect that the large majority of active Daily Kos members are old enough to have a couple of grandchildren old enough to have a drivers license. This occurred to me as I thought about last night’s press conference, knowing that there would be a lot of satisfaction here that Biden performed so well, leaving the Democratic Party “stuck in the mud,” as a Republican strategist was quoted saying in this mornings NYT.
You were right. I was wrong. He is not experiencing dementia. He is just very, very old. He has “bad nights,” as I do, and most likely many of you do.
Why do I bother to post here, knowing I’m in a small minority convinced that Biden is destined to lose to Trump, possibly in a landslide that delivers all of the federal government to Maga?
Like many of you, I suspect, I’m retired. A retired journalist. I have nowhere else to publish. My glory days were way, way back in my thirties, when I published three books. After that, I labored happily for three decades as a small-town newspaper publisher, a witness to small-town journalism slowly, then quickly, becoming obsolete.
Thinking about the press conference, I thought about this forum and realized why Daily Kos is shrinking and struggling financially. So I have a question for you all, in all sincerity. How many of us, here, are under the age of 50? Under the age of 60? Over the age of 70? How many of us have a Tik Tok account?
Everybody ages out. Nobody much likes it. Joe Biden hates it.
You may still be a perfectly safe driver. But wouldn’t most of you be happy to let your grandchild take the wheel?