Does anyone on DU have lingering frustrations over Joe's decision?

[lees1975]

97. I'm frustrated by the fact that it looked like big money contributors call the shots in the Democratic party as much as

they do in the GOP. That was more of a disappointment than a frustration.

I do wonder where we would be at this point if Biden had determined a year ago that he wasn't going to run for re-election, because of his age, and opened up a nomination process to choose candidates if we would be at the point where we are now.

I'm finding it difficult to understand how it is in our society and culture that someone like Donald Trump could even get his name considered for public office. How he's managed to be the GOP nominee for three times running is an inexplicable defect and flaw in American political culture that should be telling us we may have already fallen into an abyss of social dysfunction beyond redemption.