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It would be ideal if future administrations didn’t do any kind of health coverups, though of course prior admin discussions wouldn’t take precedence over e.g. a big fat war.
(Not sure if Biden’s health was actually covered up - point should hold either way)
so like this is the worst part, i can see logically why they might. "gotta project strength. old and ailing projects weakness. regardless of whether the chronic ailment (getting old) is physical or mental, the statesian public assumes any physical decline is immediately preceded by a major mental decline and putain has a literal army division devoted to memes" or something like that.
i dislike it, but statesians are in general pretty ableist (i have charts and graphs if you disagree) so they're not going to vote for someone they acknowledge has a physical deficiency. Hell, from wikipedia on FDR:
he wouldn't have concealed it if the public were accepting of those with disabilities. And this was before the damned polio vaccine (that was 1950. he died 5 years before and really needed it in 1920 as he got sick in 1921) so like, you'd think people would be more accepting? or maybe just more people died.
and well, when i lived in utah, attitudes seemed very set in the 1930s
also those charts and graphs are for if you agree too.
And Grover Cleveland had a major surgery, in 1893, performed on a yacht in secret. The public didn't find out until 1917.
They never would have if the yacht hadn't blabbed.
Presidential health coverups have been a very common recurring occurrence all over the world.