Really? An extremely competent guy has one bad night debating a felon who is a lying Putin puppet, and that is all it takes for people to start calling for him to resign?

If you’re not familiar with the term “Gish gallop,” according to Heather Cox Richardson, it is “a rhetorical technique in which someone throws out a fast string of lies, non-sequiturs, and specious arguments, so many that it is impossible to fact-check or rebut them in the amount of time it took to say them. Trying to figure out how to respond makes the opponent look confused, because they don’t know where to start grappling with the flood that has just hit them.”

That’s how Trump got through the debate last week.

How sad a nation we have become when experience and wisdom have a shelf life. But why is it that no one is calling on Trump to step aside when his age is basically the same and his mental capacity is clearly as impaired as his moral compass?

Immediately after the debate, I made my first contribution directly to Joe Biden’s campaign and sent him a email of support. Why? Because this election, I choose a guy who has relationships with every major world leader, and many not so major. Those relationships have allowed him to repair the damage done by the Putin puppet. From the Western Hemisphere to the Middle East, Africa, and the South Pacific, Biden has built coalitions to address the challenges we face in creating a more peaceful world.

I choose a guy who has wiped out student debt for hundreds of thousands of graduates who were stuck for years paying interest to banks after they had actually paid off the amount they borrowed.

I choose a guy who has lowered drug prices, including capping insulin at $35 and allowing the government to negotiate prices with greedy drug companies that have been literally killing people who couldn’t afford the high cost of their medications.

I choose a guy who, despite having lost the bipartisan effort to bring about a more humane solution to immigration due to the felon’s insistence that Republicans scuttle the bill, creates an executive order to implement the changes.

I choose a guy who stands for the rights of women to exercise their reproductive choices without threats of jail to themselves or their medical providers.

I choose a guy who is working to reduce gun violence; who supports the rights of LGBTQIA Americans; who has appointed more people of color and Native Americans to positions of power than any other president; who has stood with unions; who understands that the United States is an imperfect nation but is working to moving to the light rather than darkness.

If overlooking one bad night is not enough for people to understand the difference between that and his accomplishments, we are in bad shape as a country.

I might suggest to those people who are calling for Biden to step down that it isn’t likely to happen. But there are actions they can take to help relieve their anxiety. There are hundreds of grassroots organizations, many completely run by volunteers working to reach, educate, register, and support “sometime” and “never” voters. There are young people who are touring the country to connect with young voters about issues that matter to them: gun violence, school debt, climate change, and reproductive rights. There are groups of women who are connecting with women about the importance of preserving the entire range of reproductive rights, including contraception and IVF. There are seniors taking action to connect other seniors to support postcard campaigns and create giving circles for donations to candidates and grassroots organizations to ensure we remain a republic and not become a nation ruled by fascist dictator.

People who feel our only course of action as Democrats is to call for Biden to resign, might stop reading and listening to the major media circus intent on garnering clicks as they rush to support the doomsday scenario that, ironically, would result in the loss of the freedom the press currently enjoys. They could instead, start checking out some Substack blogs such as Heather Cox Richardson, who adds some historical context to where we are, or Robert Hubbell, who five days a week offers some “eyes on the prize” advice as well as connections to many of the organizations working on securing that prize, or many of the others bloggers working to offset the despair so many are feeling.

For me, I’m too busy financially supporting many of the groups that are organizing and writing my postcards to have energy to spend on something that is not going to happen. I know there are many, many others doing the same thing. My advice is do not underestimate the power of angry women, people of color, and young people to bring about the change we all seek and join us in the fight.