An Open Letter to Joe Biden

An Outside-the-Box Suggestion for Biden

Release your delegates but keep your hat in the ring, which I see as a win-win for you, the Democrats, and the country

Marcus aka Gregory Maidman
2 min readJul 3, 2024

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Dear President Biden:

I understand all the calls for you to step aside. I also find them arrogant and judgmental.

The certainty with which newspaper columnists, editorial boards, and Medium writers prognosticate, displays arrogance.

Branding you as selfish if you don’t step aside exhibits judgmental attitudes. How do they know what’s in your heart and mind? If you truly believe you are still the best person to run the country and have a legitimate chance of keeping Trump from returning to the White House, staying in would not display selfishness (but perhaps stubbornness).

You can dispense with all that.

I find the notion of an open convention appealing if the DNC can come up with a fair process without it being a free-for-all or other form of spectacle.

So Joe, here’s a way for you and all those calling for you to step aside to have your cakes and eat them too. If you believe in your heart that you…

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Marcus aka Gregory Maidman

Living 17,043rd human life. I am Marcus (universal name) or you may call me Greg; a deep thinker; an explorer of ideas and the mind.