Blogpost # M.98 MOVIN’ ON
Supporters of President Joseph Biden have, unhappily taken note of his announced decision to withdraw as the Democratic nominee for re-election next fall and of his concomitant endorsement of the younger Vice-President, Kamala Harris. His personal decision was clearly difficult as demonstrated by his many previous emphatic statements of intention to run. To our perception, his decision was observably reluctant, but, ultimately, no less than heroic. Having spent most of his life in the political arena, such emphatic reluctance had not been not stubbornly egotistical, but rather an indication of Biden’s universal, natural reluctance to emotionally accept the assertion that one is no longer capable. It is our understanding that Joseph Biden was the youngest Senator and will have been the oldest American President on record. The sacrificial decision, for the good of the Party and the Nation, must have been especially painful, since so many of his friends and close colleagues, were among those who requested him to do so.
The American Nation is doubtlessly cognizant of, and appropriately grateful for, the many benefits derived from effective and overtly humanistic Presidency in areas ranging from the national, regarding the pandemic and needed infrastructure, the state of the economy, student debt relief to the international arena respecting NATO the Ukraine war and Gaza.
Mainstream Americans are cognizant of the existential importance to defeat the execrable Donald Trump, the declared and empirically proven enemy of constitutionally based, American democracy. Many are now responsively thankful to Biden and under the changed circumstances, appear to be more optimistic concerning the upcoming Presidential election.
That aside, it would certainly appear to be appropriate, to comment on the empirically implicit emotional cost to Joseph Biden, in his contextual decision to put Country and Party over self. Biden, a demonstrated empathic and thoroughly humanistic individual is certainly worthy of our recognition of the natural impact on this lifelong, singularly empathic and humanistic American public servant, relative to this patriotic act of personal sacrifice of felt identity, self-esteem and capability. To briefly articulate our intended theme. It would seem especially relevant and appropriate in the case of this lifelong, empathic and humanistic, American public servant, to recognize, in addition to Presidential history, the perceived cost of such a costly decision to him as an individual.
The empirically universal, life-altering act of retirement, is customarily accompanied by an exigent need for an insecure and often, painful, re-adjustment to a changed and unfamiliarly perceived reality. In a much earlier blog, we observed that in general, retired individuals who had previously cultivated an interest outside of their working and familial life experience, enjoy some degree of easier adjustment to this major change of circumstance. In our case, relative to the retirement from the practice of law, we had salubriously learned to self-identify ourselves, not as “Lawyers,” but individuals who had worked as lawyers. In time, we salubriously continued as self-identified personalities, irrespective of he act of retirement; albeit no longer performing in that previously chosen role. Analogously, it would be salutary if Joseph Biden’s existentially vital, self-image were to be identified by him, as the essential Joseph Biden, working (and succeeding) as an American President.
In our presented case of the soon-to-be-retired American citizen, Joseph Biden, it is our sincere hope that his personal realization of the good he has done for the Nation, and the recognition of the personal pride implicit in having made the patriotically sacrificial decision to withdraw from Presidential contention, will, deservedly soften the universal adjustment.
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