Comments by "Theodore Shulman" (@ColonelFredPuntridge) on "The Senior Home Showdown: Delusional Biden vs. Demented Trump || Peter Zeihan" video.
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The thing at the end about a state governor jumping in and providing some motivating inspiration to the young voters who are disgusted by both geriatric-R and geriatric-D, is interesting. But it wouldn't have to be a governor! Remember how Ross Perot jumped in in 1992, and showed that we didn't have to go on trying to think about the post-Cold-War world using the obsolete, Cold-War, mutually-assured-nuclear-destruction-and-spooky-spy-stories conceptual framework?
Suppose a hitherto-non-political person - someone like, say, Jodie Foster - were to enter the election, inspire a lot of young people, get a following, and then, at the key moment, drop out and throw her support behind Joe Biden. He would win in a landslide, and she would be positioned for a strong serious bid of her own in 2028, having been the one who saved the Democrats' asses in 2024.
Sound impossible? It's not very different from what Ronald Reagan did 1976 (following up in 1980), and Ross Perot 1992. (Ross turned out to be nutty, but by the time he withdrew, he had enabled us to break out of the Cold-War mentality and start thinking appropriately for the internet-age, and Bill Clinton was just as effective in that context as Perot would have been.)
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