They're Done Ridin' With Biden

But why? What comes next?

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It likely comes as no surprise to readers of this publication that Biden was increasingly unfit to be President. His fitness was a point of extensive commentary in the 2020 election, so for it to be just as bad — if not worse — four years later hardly comes as a shock.

However, for many Democrat voters, that is exactly what the revelations of his decline in mental and physical acuity brought. That same shock only increased as Biden went from being a supposedly "fit and healthy" 81-year-old man, in the early months of 2024 to a frail, senile old man, being asked to step down by numerous members of his own party, only a few months later.

Of course, for those who were not wearing blinders (which seem to be a requirement at Team Biden), the special counsel's report that cleared Biden of wrongdoing in his handling of classified documents simultaneously blew away any illusions regarding his fitness as far back as February.

Some on the right laugh at Democrats who are just now finding out that their glorious leader was so frail in body and mind that an argument could be made that those keeping him in office should be charged with elder abuse. Gaffe after gaffe played across global news channels for international audiences to see.

It got to the point where many people who disliked the president almost felt bad for him for this reason. As far back as February, Biden "couldn't remember when he served as Barack Obama's vice president or the year when his beloved son Beau died." As the investigating special counsel Robert Hur wrote in his post-investigatory conclusions, "Mr. Biden would likely present himself to a jury, as he did during our interview with him, as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory."

Those who laugh, however, likely fail to realize what exactly partisan politics is and how it works, outside of being unwitting partakers in the game. Politics is a team sport. And just like any team sport, there are players (politicians), coaches (advisors), support staff, and fans (the voters). In general, even when fans may recognize their team is not the strongest it has ever been, that doesn't stop them from rooting for them or even turning a blind eye to behaviors that should be warning signs.

Many football fans support their favorite players, even though those same players go home and beat their wives, host dog fights, or display all manner of odious behavior. On the field, that doesn't matter because they will get behind anyone who they believe (or are led to believe) will bring them the victory they can celebrate.

And it is in the being "led to believe" part that we find the issue of the shock over Biden's state. Like in sports, politics also has its head office and executive teams: owners (big donors and special interests), executives (party leadership), lawyers, media liaisons, and others whose job it is to plan the future, herd the fans, increase the bottom line, and even go as far as to manipulate media, markets, and the public for strategic purposes.

When a president that many — even within his own party — consider a "walking corpse" wins a landslide victory and gets the most votes of any president in the history of the nation (surprisingly, with a dead-of-night drop of just enough ballots to win only the most important counties to ensure the victory, only to be sidelined less than 4 years later for that same fragility), one begins to wonder if the common title of "most powerful man in the world" might just be a little misleading.

I've often said that our governments are middle management. I have yet to see convincing evidence that disproves that statement. While there is power that lies in the hands of the president, it is not all-encompassing; and far from unchecked.

We saw examples of this in the first Trump administration where "the deep state," aligned against him. Intelligence officials and military brass defied him and seemed to challenge him at every turn, seemingly without consequence. The administrative state, along with corporate media, spun story after story; turning into political pariahs any who would dare show even mild appreciation. Bands would not perform for his inauguration, those who helped his campaign found themselves largely unemployable — even after winning. Tech companies connected deeply with global intelligence organizations, openly censored supporters of the sitting president, and called for his censorship, as well.

We saw the power of the global order during the first Trump administration. We saw it again during the response to (and even the creation of) COVID, and the ensuing ideas outlined by certain global organizations with suspiciously powerful attendees; and an even more suspicious ability to suggest policies that get pushed almost immediately by various governments as far removed as Canada to New Zealand, whose elected officials all find themselves attending members of these global organizations.

All this to say, if the powers behind the curtain wanted Biden in office, they could find 81 million ways to keep him there. The reason he is gone now is because, for some reason, those powers determined his time was over.

That's why, after the CNN debate, media and political heavyweights "suddenly discovered" just how inept Biden was. Unless they were completely inept themselves, they knew all along. Like the courtiers to the emperor, they knew he had no clothes, yet played along. But now it was time for him to go; so once again they all fell in line to make that happen the same way they fell in line to enforce COVID regulations or push Trump-derangement.

This then begs the question why? Why now?

He was losing to Trump in the national polls, yes. But so is Harris, who was so unlikable she barely scraped a couple of percentage points in the Democratic primary vote in 2020. If the "deep state" wanted Biden in they could keep up the charade, or just "find" another 3 a.m. ballot drop when and where needed.

So why this and why now? A definitive answer would be hardly more than speculation considering I do not sit behind closed doors with those making these decisions. But the fact that the decisions are made outside of the voters' domain, that voters themselves are easily corralled by media and party preference without so much as a question of "what happened to the guy I voted for," shows there is more going on behind the scenes than we are privy to.

Arthur is a former editor and consultant. Born in India to missionary parents, he spent his early career working in development for NGOs in Asia, Central America, and Africa.

Arthur has an educational background in history and psychology, with certifications from the University of Oxford and Leiden in the economics, politics, and ethics of mass migration and comparative theories in terrorism and counterterrorism. He is currently launching CivWest, a company focused on building capital to fund restorative projects and create resilient systems across the Western world.

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