Amanda Marcotte: 65% of voters say Biden is too old. That's not just millions you are trying to silence. It's a couple hundred million. Sorry, don't think you can shut them up. www.dataforprogress.org/blog/2024/6/...

The discussion about persuading Biden. To offer a counterpoint to the yes-men he's surrounded himself with. But mostly it continues to be astonishing that folks believe it will be easier to shut up the entire media and millions of voters with concerns than to ask Biden to do the right thing.

There’s nothing wrong with looking at a candidate’s fitness for office. I understand the concerns a lot of people express about Biden. I felt the same way after that miserable debate. But the discussion’s over unless Biden changes his mind, because today he made it clear that he’s not quitting.

It does not speak well of Biden that his biggest defenders think it's harder to reason with him than it is to browbeat millions of people into silence.

Who is browbeating millions of people into silence when the NYT has 5 stories a day about how no one, from people who enthusiastically voted for him in 2020 to Senator Mark Warner, wants him to stay in the race? This is serious question.

65% of voters say Biden is too old. That's not just millions you are trying to silence. It's a couple hundred million. Sorry, don't think you can shut them up. www.dataforprogress.org/blog/2024/6/...

In Post-Debate Poll, Voters Think Biden Is Too Old to Be President Yet Alternative Candidates Perform Similarly Against Trumpwww.dataforprogress.org Only 51% of Democrats and 35% of all likely voters say that Joe Biden should remain as the Democratic nominee for the 2024 presidential election.

How am I silencing anyone? I am an academic editor & poster on BlueSky. If I happen to think and express, contra some other Dems, that it makes more sense for Biden to stay in the race than not, how does that turn me into a movie villain? Hate the DNC if you want (I'm not a fan), but who is "you"?

Oh, you know [general hand wave in several directions], *you*

A couple hundred million voters? Um, I think you need to check your math.

And about as many say that Trump is too old, and a convicted felon, and generally unhinged. Are you asking Trump to drop out? If not, why not?