The statement that President Biden released on the heels of the military takeover of the Burmese government is remarkable.

In a democracy, force should never seek to overrule the will of the people or attempt to erase the outcome of a credible election. For almost a decade, the people of Burma have been steadily working to establish elections, civilian governance, and the peaceful transfer of power. That progress should be respected.

There are a lot of adjectives that can be used to describe an election. Most probably wouldn’t have picked “credible” to describe an accurate counting of ballots.

The fact that the Biden team picked it is is either a Freudian slip, or a poke in the eye to everyone that questions the outcome of the 2020 election.

So what is the purpose of elections if they are not to determine who the governed want to hand the reins to? Lets take a look at the definition of credible from Webster:

credible: offering reasonable grounds for being believed

The Biden team is saying that elections are to provide a reasonable grounds to believe the result. Maybe Joe thinks as the Burmese military does. The election was a farce, but was good enough to look credible.

Maybe that is what the elections are for in the US as well.