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[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

since his health is of no consequence whatsoever.

Uhm yes? That is the entire point. It is a stressfull job and you need to be at full mental and sufficient physical capacity to handle it. Biden showed that he is not up to it anymore. Trump also is starting to show signs of decline, but he is further ahead of the curve than Biden is.

Either candidate is unfit for office, but for Biden health is the crucial issue. And old age is not something you can recover from. Just statistically it is entirely reasonable to expect either one of them to die in office.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

In the unique situation that the country finds itself in with an authoritarian destructive candidate is that any mid alternative is golden. In any other election then less important things like the health of the leader of one of the parties(pres candidate) does matter.

In our situation if the mid party leader dies then he is replaced by another mid. The identity of the mid is of no consequence at all.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

The identity of the mid is of no consequence at all.

And that is why Trump won in the first place in 2016. This line of thinking does not work. People are rightfully scared of seeing a weak old men being put up to run the most powerful and most dangerous country in the world. And people cannot feel that voting for Biden will be the right choice, because our animal brains rightfully demand a leader to have the qualities of a leader.