Except in the Biden case, it didn't happen this way. There were a significant time after the disastrous debate where Biden claimed only Lord Almighty may force him to resign (July 6) and at the same time, a number of press propagandists (I am not using the term "journalist" here, reserving it to rare people who still do what once was the…
Except in the Biden case, it didn't happen this way. There were a significant time after the disastrous debate where Biden claimed only Lord Almighty may force him to resign (July 6) and at the same time, a number of press propagandists (I am not using the term "journalist" here, reserving it to rare people who still do what once was the journalistic work) wrote a long, well argued articles about how anybody who thinks Biden is about to resign in a complete fool, ignorant in basics of American politics.
What was happening is not that the press have had some kind of truth revealed to them simultaneously, and could not deny it any longer. What happensd is that there was a power struggle in the top of Dem party, and once Biden group lost, and Biden has been forced to resign, the press propagandists switched from serving Biden, who was in power, to serving the next group, who is in power now. The concept of "truth", social or otherwise, has never even entrered in the equation. They didn't realize anything, they just received the new directives. Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia not because some spectascular event revealed it and caused some kind of preference cascade, but because this is what the Party tells is the truth, and there's no other possible truth and never has been.
It would be very interesting to figure out why so many people voluntarily surrendered their mental facilities to the service of the Party, but the mechanism of "changing the social truth" that has been described does not seem to be describing what actually happened.
In the strictest sense he was, of course, "persuaded" - nobody put a gun to his head or held him in a headlock while others typed the famous Xwitter announcement under his account. But this persuasion was of the sort of the "offer he can not refuse" - if he didn't let himself be persuaded, the consequences would be dire - his campaign would be completely ruined and he would likely be subject to 25 amendment removal. I do not see any indication that it was a result of some soul-searching process on Biden's side - rather, the other side has been steadily escalating the level of threats and pressure to the point where Biden could not bear it anymore. The press started making threatening noises and notice his cognitive state, the donors turned their backs, and in private, as I heard, very pointed threats (including the mention of the number of doom - 25) were surely heard. Can it be called "forced"? I think it can - before this massive pressure was applied, Biden had zero intent to get out, neither did his team. After, he was out. I think "forced" is an adequate description of that.
Except in the Biden case, it didn't happen this way. There were a significant time after the disastrous debate where Biden claimed only Lord Almighty may force him to resign (July 6) and at the same time, a number of press propagandists (I am not using the term "journalist" here, reserving it to rare people who still do what once was the journalistic work) wrote a long, well argued articles about how anybody who thinks Biden is about to resign in a complete fool, ignorant in basics of American politics.
What was happening is not that the press have had some kind of truth revealed to them simultaneously, and could not deny it any longer. What happensd is that there was a power struggle in the top of Dem party, and once Biden group lost, and Biden has been forced to resign, the press propagandists switched from serving Biden, who was in power, to serving the next group, who is in power now. The concept of "truth", social or otherwise, has never even entrered in the equation. They didn't realize anything, they just received the new directives. Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia not because some spectascular event revealed it and caused some kind of preference cascade, but because this is what the Party tells is the truth, and there's no other possible truth and never has been.
It would be very interesting to figure out why so many people voluntarily surrendered their mental facilities to the service of the Party, but the mechanism of "changing the social truth" that has been described does not seem to be describing what actually happened.
In what sense was Biden forced, rather than persuaded, to resign? He had the delegates from the primaries to nominate him.
In the strictest sense he was, of course, "persuaded" - nobody put a gun to his head or held him in a headlock while others typed the famous Xwitter announcement under his account. But this persuasion was of the sort of the "offer he can not refuse" - if he didn't let himself be persuaded, the consequences would be dire - his campaign would be completely ruined and he would likely be subject to 25 amendment removal. I do not see any indication that it was a result of some soul-searching process on Biden's side - rather, the other side has been steadily escalating the level of threats and pressure to the point where Biden could not bear it anymore. The press started making threatening noises and notice his cognitive state, the donors turned their backs, and in private, as I heard, very pointed threats (including the mention of the number of doom - 25) were surely heard. Can it be called "forced"? I think it can - before this massive pressure was applied, Biden had zero intent to get out, neither did his team. After, he was out. I think "forced" is an adequate description of that.