I would for vote Kamala. I would vote for a cactus with sunglasses if it had the Democratic nomination. You would do yourself well to consider anything that is weaking the resolve of the anti-trump sentiment straight poison to your brain. We have only one job this novemeber and that is to stop trump. The Supreme Court has given him the status of king. Quit acting like your vote is sacred and start realizing your vote is your final cry before your rights are forfeited.
I am an unapologetic leftist, and, like most other leftists, I do not believe that engaging in the liberal democratic process will, or even can, bring about my ideal society. However, while I don't think voting is likely to make things meaningfully better, I do think it can prevent things from getting meaningfully worse. Maybe fascism can't be defeated with votes, but I can't see how anything is lost by trying. I mean, why make it easier on the fascists? I'm sure the fascists won't just give up because they lost an election, but that's not a reason to hold the door open for them. Again, I don't think voting for Biden (or whoever the Democratic candidate ends up being) is going to make things much better, but I do think not voting for him could make things much worse. So, we (leftists) should all vote for the Democrats this November. Not because it's going to get us nearer to our ideal, or our ultimate goals, but because it might help prevent the US from being taken over by fascists.
Change requires sustained momentum. Bouncing back and forth between Republicans and protest voting against Democrats. Is a sure fire way to see no change. If we were to say, show solidarity and dedication to keep all Republicans from elected office. Republicans would lose relevance and slink away. They might try masquerading under a different name like economic liberals playing Libertarian that generally vote Republican. But they will lose influence.
Once that happens. Then we focus on the worst of the Democrats, primarying every single one and driving them out. That sustained momentum and push is what's needed. To keep the fascist and the wealthy scattered and disorganized like they've kept the left. Though the left has done a fair share of that to itself. The right will eat itself as well especially once they're not winning.
Yeah, basically if the Republicans can be crushed in an election or two - Not just defeated, but absolutely demolished - then it could lead to them dissolving, and lead to the Democrats splitting and pushing the Overton window back left
We don't need to wait for the Republicans to stop existing before we get representation in exchange for our votes. With a more representative electoral system like Ranked Choice voting, people would be free to vote for those that best represents them, secure in the knowledge that their vote would still be counted even if their preference didn't win. Still counted against the republicans.
You see, we can have democracy and freedom at the same time. How we vote is controlled at the state level, so we should be able to make these changes in blue states where republicans have less influence.
Unless of course, the democrats in power in those blue states aren't interested in democracy.
How sustained are we talking? We ushered in the Biden presidency with a huge mandate in 2020, and snuffed out the alleged “red wave” in ‘22 due to republicans’ reprehensible views on denying women bodily autonomy.
Biden and the establishment Dems have squandered this time by telling Americans who are suffering economically that the economy is doing great. That Biden is better than FDR, while our public infrastructure crumbles and our most popular social programs are at risk of closure.
When should we expect the Democrats to actually do something meaningful that improves the vast majority of normal people’s lives?
I always like to point out that the people on the far right are always going to vote, and they are always going to vote for the Republican candidate no matter what. Even if you feel like there aren't any "good candidates" you should still vote because even getting a less than ideal president is better than just doing nothing and letting Trump become a dictator for life
The only real solve is for several people to devote their lives to seeming like milquetoast centre right Democrats, getting into a majority of high ranking committee positions, and then all turn left at once and effect sweeping reforms to the entire platforms
It's impossible. You would have to be able to fake "real housewives" type social discourse and be able to social climb in that environment. It guarantees only dumb, thoughtless, bite backing, people will ever hold seats of power. Else you risk GOP game of thrones style politics where the GOAT is a spray tanned ballsack with a golden comb over.
IMO, the solutionis changing how we vote so the disenfranchised are encouraged to participate. More voters equals more democratic votes. So why arent democrats taking these easy votes? All it takes is passing electoral reform in the states they control.
I'm hoping Biden steps down and is replaced, but if he doesn't, as concerning as that is to our chances, I will still be voting for the Dem ticket against literal fucking fascism and encouraging everyone I know IRL to do likewise.
It's not just having elections. It's having enough breathing room to enact fundamental change at all. We need to unionize every workplace, and start insisting that politicians of any party work for us. The path forward will be hard enough under Biden, but basically impossible under Trump. Voting is not sufficient by itself.
Something INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT that no one talks about is how when real pressure is laid on the table, Biden almost always bends. Having him stay in office, while not the best possible scenario, is also not the worst IF we all continue to pressure him. Granted, it would have to be done in different and more nuanced ways as he is then again the sitting President. However, I feel with the right people at the forefront and the correct pressure, we can enact change through him more significant than anything he has done these last four years.
And make no mistake my dear dissidents, he HAS done a lot of good.
If biden wins you get none of those things and another „last chance” election in 4 years.
Nobody wants to fix anything anymore. There are only people who want to destroy what remains for even more power.
Every election is going to be a "last chance" election until there's another GOP win. Then either they were right, the Dems will learn and pivot to another tactic or they'll lose several more times because losing the last chance and still having another "last chance" right on schedule makes you look especially dishonest.
I'll do my duty and vote for Biden, but we're going to lose with Biden.
37% approval-rating matching Jimmy Carter; no candidate in history won with those numbers.
Biden has the most catastrophic debate performance in history, proving long-held fears by 75% of the electorate that Biden is too old 3 an immutable, worsening attribute.
Biden was already hemorrhaging black and hispanic voters.
Biden was already losing youth vote in part due to his position on Israel.
Trump's polls hardly budge after a full-blown criminal conviction.
Trump seizes the narrative for the first time positively with a VP pick and TIME-cover magazine shots of him pumping his fist, defiant with a flag in the background as he's covered in blood from an assassination attempt.
Trump campaign has barely spent a nickle of their war chest money while Biden has been dumping their cash just to stay afloat in the polls as damage-control post-debate.
Biden campaign team has ZERO strategy to change the trajectory of his terrible polls, including the 6 battleground states, all of which he trails in.
Ultimately it's not me you have to convince; it's the low-info battleground state swing-voter who now is either not voting or leaning Trump once again.
I will continue to advocate for Biden to step down until post-Convention; after that, well, I'll probably bet money against his victory. That way, at least it's win-win for me.
Even if he didn't, which it certainly won't hurt him, Biden is already underperforming not just his 2020 run by a full 10 points, he's doing worse than Hillary's 2016 run. I'm glad Trump chose Vance as it doesn't help him, but again it doesn't change the bottom-line.
We need to jump ship while there is still time.
Adam Schiff now just publicly called for for Biden to step down.
Even if Trump is defeated. Trumpism isn't over and we ill be in a endless loop of corporatists Dems will leave us in this same situation. This is the fork in the road for Dems to actually change and voters to demand better. Time is ticking, they have to figure out the best path forward.
Trumpism is over as soon as Trump stops running for office. No one else can hold his torch. Ramaswamy and others try but they suffer from a terminal syndrome called maturity that Trump can never have. As immature as Ramaswamy pretends to be he is still a mature adult underneath it all and is incapable of behaving like Trump.
There are no educated public figures, that are supposed to be taken seriously, as immature as Trump in the entire United States. He is on a level of underdevelopment all in his own.
Biden is just one in a line of status quo. How has anyone's life gotten better in the last 10 years? 20? 30? I'm only 36 so maybe going back 30 years is tough for me to say, but since I joined the workforce I've watched the rich get richer, and at the end of the day that is the battle that needs to be fought. If this is a turning point, maybe Dems put forward an actual progressive.
Exactly, it is going to be awful if Trump wins but the social contract has been so thoroughly broken by austerity politics and democrats who campaign on how shitty republicans are (they are) and then don’t do shit when they get into power that I don’t think there is anything to save really if Biden refuses to step down and looses the election. The collapse was inevitable in the US, the Democratic Party would have kept only allowing older and more conservative politicians to effectively access the nomination until this very thing happened and the rest of the centrist Democratic Party would be too concerned with careerism to be the one to pull the fire alarm before it was too late.
I hate to say it, but I don’t see the point in voting for Biden if he refuses to budge on fucking virtually anything, we are going down with the ship and the sooner the Democratic Party collapses in a heap the sooner we can actually build something productive here.
A lot of people are going to suffer, but it isn’t the voters who aren’t convinced by Biden’s fault, it is the democratic parties fault for not giving us any choice but Biden type politicians and then expecting us to keep dealing with it indefinitely. Whenever progressives start to bring up concerns centrists just scream in our faces “NOW IS NOT THE TIME YOU ARE SO SELFISH” and guess what now it is wayyyyy to late for progressives to have any control or ability to save this, centrist democrats let republicans send this country off a cliff because they were too busy shaming progressives for yelling about how we were about to drive off a cliff.
We are off the cliff, sorry to all the Biden fans and centrists that have always treated me condescendingly like my views were unrealistic or naive, but y’all never listened to us and treated us like children and now we are locked into this ride. It’s your fault, not mine.
I feel like voters have gone above and beyond to get Biden to win the first time. If he really delivered or at least instilled enough confidence for people this wouldn't be as hard. Not being Trump becomes less effective overtime when people become numb to his actions.
I can only hope things turn out decently or everyone supports each other if the bad ending happens. Everyone gets shouted down until some type of exposing moment happens like that Debate. Even Trump voters actually vote for what they believe in, even if it is lies.
I agree with your assessment of the problem but not necessarily your proposed solution. The problem is senior Democratic leadership, including members of Congress and powerful hidden figures in the DNC. Those are the people we definitely want to get rid of as soon as we reasonably can.
My vote will be against Trump the Pedophile, no matter who it is, but I am beyond done with the dems. I agree that Joe needs to pass the torch to someone younger.
The person who wants Biden to be the nominee the most is Trump. Notice he's gone completely quiet on him, not blasting him for his age like some democrats are, because he knows he can win against an 81yo Biden. As soon as he's confirmed as the nominee, Team Trump will turn around and try to make him look as old as dirt
Here's the thing. Many of us on here agree with you, but there are many Americans who are not terminally online or politically charged as we are. Getting them to vote for an old man who is often incoherent will be difficult. We need a candidate who can get those people to actually vote, and I am not sure Biden is that guy in his current form. At the end of the day, I don't care if it's Biden or Harris or someone else, I just want to ensure that we put the best chance to win forward, and I am not convinced Biden is that person.
The real question we should be asking is, how do we motivate as many voters as possible, shit posting to people who have seen posts like this 700 times this week doesn't do that.
His supporters aren't rational, trump could be older and less coherent than Biden and they wouldn't care. We can't measure them in the same ways, as their supporters don't look for the same things. People who will vote for trump don't care what trump sounds like, as long as it's trump. The people we need to show up and vote for Biden do care what he sounds like and how cogent he is.
This is the real problem we face. The problem isn't getting people not to vote for trump, because people will, we need people to show up and vote for someone else.
Republicans win when no one shows up, Democrats win when everyone shows up. We need to make sure the candidate for the Dems is worth showing up for.
I've answered this one. We have to seriously hammer home how bad trump is. That doesn't mean hit on every thing that makes him bad. Pick out the glaring ones, the ones that will impact your audience on a personal level.
Rule 1: Dont waste you're time on trumpers but if you do just hammer home how trump and epstein are intimately connected. It won't accomplish much but should leave every other talking point moot.
Suburban women: Trump has destroyed abortion rights and isn't finished. They will lean heavily on the economy but just remind them Trump is responsible for more debt then any president before or after him. You can also make the appeal that the strength of the dollar is dependent on the US stability and Trump is nothing but unpredictable.
College educated: Trump is a threat to democracy. Sight how his Supreme Court Justices are running a muck.
Working class: ... sorry gtg for now and watch game of thrones.
I'm just saying there is an angle to credible attack trump on every front because the main is a shit human being.
I agree. So we should all rally around a candidate who actually has a chance to beat Trump rather than blindly following some guy who's comfortable handing over the White House as long as he, "tried his best."
Just mark whoever has (D) on your ballot in November and stop paying attention to the presidential race. Your votes for your representatives and senators are FAR more impactful, and a United Democratic Congress is far more capable of stopping fascism than a Republican one
It's not about that. It's about sleep walking into fascism. Before the debate it was metaphorical. If you keep voting for the lesser evil you still get evil. It just takes longer.
Now we're being asked to vote for someone who clearly cannot handle the duties of the office and is nothing more than a figurehead. Rubber stamping this does not protect democracy. It proves they can manufacture consent to put whoever they want in that office and you guys will keep pulling that lever thinking, "it could be worse".
Come November, I will not be voting for an old guy named Biden. I will be voting for the Biden administration, an administration that rejoined the Paris climate accords, has made progress wrt medical debt, has seen decreasing levels of uninsured Americans, and made progress on myriad other issues. Because the alternative is...well, you know.
I am not voting for my ideal candidate, or my ideal administration, but that's because 1) I'm not an accelerationist, and 2) I'm smart enough to know how this works given our deeply flawed voting system.
I'm not sure you can really have it both ways --- the only alternatives for someone who doesn't want Trump but won't vote for Biden that I see are accelerationism, or complete and utter naivety...which is functionally equivalent to accelerationism.
I don't agree that those are the only avenues left. Biden is vulnerable to a replacement campaign now. We can sidestep the entire thing. Get a good admin and a president strong enough to fight the inevitable reactionary shit from red states.
The risk of doing nothing becomes the greatest risk of all. It absolutely could be worse, we all lived through 4 years of Trump (and the aftermath re:Supreme Court appointments). We don't need hypotheticals here, there's a clear comparison between 4 years of Trump and 4 years of Biden, and not voting out of principal doesn't stop anything.
In full transparency, I'm not voting for Biden in November because of the Palestinian Genocide and because I believe he's already ineffective at protecting LGBTQ rights in red states. But I'm not here to tell you not to vote for him in November. I should have been more clear above. We have the momentum to replace him and vote for someone that isn't just a figurehead. Biden and his allies are using the "vote blue no matter who" rhetoric as a club to stop people from talking about replacing him on the ticket. We can cross that bridge on August 23rd though, the day after the convention. Right now we need to fully and faithfully have the conversation about replacing him.
After November we need to better organize to prevent the mega donor class from steering us into a full Oligarchy. Something that's on the plate for both old guys.
Yes, you can manufacture consent. That was obvious. What will you do about it? The question being asked isn't, "how do we rebuild america." It is what do we do in novemeber. Any thing else is purposeful obsfucation.
Short term, pressure for replacing Biden. November, vote if you can stomach it. Thereafter, get involved with your state party. March. If you're in a red state then you have a unique position of running on more progressive things that are actually people oriented. That's what led to Democrats taking state wide offices in Arizona. You aren't beholden to the DNC's mega donors.
If you're in a blue state plan to help primary an establishment Democrat.
Don't shirk away because you can't do it yourself, that's an unrealistic expectation. Organize your friends, your coworkers, your commuter bus, etc.
Nothing in politics is "over" if you can get a critical mass of people to agree to change things. And it's really the only way off this manufactured consent treadmill for corporate power and profits we've been on for the last 40 years.
Edit to add- Confining the question to November is a logical fallacy. We aren't that close to the election that we can do nothing but vote. So that's pretty much just another attempt to get people to turn their brain off, vote, and then sit around waiting for the next thing their told to do. If we don't "activate" and start acting independently of big money then we aren't going to have a democracy come 2028, no matter which person is elected now. Biden is a vote for an Authoritarian Oligarchy. Which isn't "Fascism" in a technical sense, but it's not going to feel much different for you and me.
Is just as bad as the figure head of a fascist, xenophobic, racist, authoritarian, nationalist, religious zealot party because they are both figureheads. You're right.
I'm not even going to start with a list put together by his base. The news can't put one together that doesn't get ripped to shreds once you actually look at it. I doubt his base has put together anything like a list that says what the policies actually do. And no the title of the bill or the PR elevator pitch has no relation to what it actually does. For example he actually severely cut EV subsidies and you all fell on your knees to thank him for it.
You’re right, and I’m getting real sick of the “shut up and fall in line” demand from democrats.
In this current system, EVERY election now will always be “the most important one ever”, with fascism at the front door and our democracy being at stake.
When the options are between (insert every terrible adjective that accurately describes him here) Trump, and ‘guy with obvious mental decline’ Biden, the blame doesn’t lie with the voter. If Joe Biden can’t earn people’s votes, the responsibility lies with Joe Biden and the Democrat establishment.
There are millions of leftist voters in this country who are being ignored by the two parties, and the democrats are hostile toward them and don’t want to move left to gain their votes. The leftist voters then get villainized by dems for seeking out a third party that better aligns with their values. “How dare you not fall in line! A vote for a third party is a vote for Trump!” No, it’s not. It’s exercising what little democracy we have left. The only vote for trump is an actual vote for trump.
The Democrat establishment simply doesn’t offer enough to anyone left of them. I don’t want the status quo; the status quo sucks. It’s a deregulated capitalist hellscape full of cruelty, slavery, wealth inequality, and planetary disaster.
I wish the dems could step back and realize what they are advocating for. The best and only choice for president is currently an 81-year-old man dealing with cognitive decline?! No, that’s not okay! That is not acceptable!
That’s why we’re voting for the administration, not the man. And we’re voting AGAINST Trump, not FOR Biden.
But you tell yourself whatever it is that makes you feel good about turning your back on those who’s lives are going to essentially be made illegal. Because beneath it all- knowing what’s at stake, and choosing not to vote anyway, is admitting that none of the shit you’re “concerned” about really matters.
Well they're already being made illegal, and all of the homeless people are going to be made illegal too. Don't be surprised when they start going into camps together, no matter whose president. Because Biden isn't fighting for them. He's going tooth and nail to make sure GM isn't pressured by actual competition and to make sure Landlords can still kill you for rent. But LGBTQ rights? shit, don't make me laugh.
At any rate my comments here are about replacing him so we have a chance. Because Biden is losing this election. The people who actually elect the president are responding to pollsters and they're telling everyone they won't vote for Biden. It doesn't matter if every democrat in every other state turns out. If they don't get the 100,000 or so undecided people in swing states, it's over. And we have a chance to avoid that.
That figurehead happens to be surrounded by people who aren't fascists and support policy that I mostly agree with, so I guess I'll take my chances with them.
I am curious who this is directed at. I think most people on Lemmy (excepting the Tankie minority who I mostly avoid) agree that voting democrats is the best political strategy in this election.
However, there is a separate and more contentious question of who the person we’ll be voting for should be. I don’t think the answer to this is obvious at all and it’s very strange to me that some people react with so much hostility to asking that question.
If this is about the first topic, I don’t see the need for it, and if it’s about the second, then it needs to be clearer and better articulated to sway anyone or spark useful discussion.
Good news, turns out some of the polls, especially those coming out of Georgia are misleading as they are failing to account for the Overwhelmingly Pro-Biden black vote
I'll rely on polling the day I have a fully stocked bunker, with all the amenities, that I can sneak away into until my inevitable death while eating cheetos on the shitter.
I'm sorry, but this really isn't true. Almost everyone here, leftist or liberal, is going to vote, and the vast majority of them are going to vote for Biden. There will be some protest votes, especially in safe states, but if you care enough to post on a left-leaning political group, you care enough to try to block Trump.
The people that will cost Biden the election are the people who don't argue online. They support the Democrats (or at least oppose the Republicans), but they don't always vote. They probably live in a state without mail-in voting, they probably live paycheck to paycheck, and they really just don't have a lot of spare time. They'll go to the polls if they think it's really important or they're very enthusiastic about the candidate, but if not, they'd rather rest or get a load of laundry done before work tomorrow, because it's not that important anyway. The Democrats need to find a way to get those people out if they want to win.
We all live in the same ecosystem. The people who argue online are the same people who might inspire their dipshit friends to have an opinion. Those people might convince their families to come with them to the polls. Troll farms demonstrated in 2016 and continue to demonstrate that they don't need to convince anyone. They don't need to tell lies or trick anyone. They just need to keep everyone at odds with each other. They do that with media loops and feeding negative discussions.
When I post in opposition, I'm not really having an effect. I get to diffuse some of the disinformation upfront which is still pretty good in my eyes. But really I'm just swinging because I have fight in me.
I mean, fair enough, and it's not like trying to get leftists and liberals to work together will hurt. I'm just saying, don't worry too much about those divisions, as they tend to work themselves out; worry about voter turnout. There are also things you can do to help with that, like volunteering to give rides with Souls to the Pools or Carpool Vote.
We should help work towards passing electoral reform in each of our states. Then you can put all those people upset with the democrats into the game. Let them to participate in the electoral process.
More people voting means more democratic votes. Don't you want more votes for the democratic party?
While I will vote Biden/Kamela I gotta make a slight correction or addition. Our vote is voiceless. We don't vote for president, the electoral college does. Between us and the electors there is a sea of shit that allows the final outcome to not represent what we want.
I want 1vote=1vote. Ladies and gentlemen, we have the technology.
I want to be able to vote for longer than 1 day. I want if possible a constant...1vote that I can take back and switch at will.
The problem with this meme is that it's written by a shelter middle class white person. Minorities and poor people HAVE been dying due to Democrats' capitation and appeasement to Republicans for years now.
That's extremely simplistic. The complicated truth is:
It's a law of political science (Duverger's specifically) that a first-past-the-post system leads large, mass-appeal parties, and parties that don't go for mass appeal will fail.
In the US, the political balance is further pushed to the right by a) unequal representation that typically favors rural states and districts, most egregiously in the Senate, and b) denial of representation to particularly blue parts of the country like PR and DC. This means that relative to the country, Democrats cannot be as far left as Republicans are far right and still hold power. This can be observed in the simple fact that in the 21st century, Democrats have won 5/6 national popular votes, but have only controlled the Senate in 4/12 sessions.
From 1 and 2, it follows that Democrats would effectively lose what little political power they have by taking a firm leftist stance, leading to effectively a one-party far right state.
You're right, minorities and poor people have suffered and some died while Democrats were ostensibly in charge. What do you propose an American does on election day?
Barring a cataclysmic reordering of American politics, it's still true that voting for anyone but the Democratic candidate will increase the odds of Trump winning. Trump is a blatant liar, corrupt, rapist, and racist. He's promised to enact revenge on those he perceives as his enemies, and his proposed policies will cause suffering an order of magnitude more than what is already unjustly inflicted on minorities and the poor.
It sucks. We should have good candidates to choose from. We should have ranked choice voting and a multi-party system, but we don't.
It's inflicting harm on yourself and many others to do anything other than vote Democrat in November. There's more we can do than vote, but that's a bare minimum.
So… to summarize, conservatives are killing people, the democrats AREN’T killing people, but not doing enough to stop the people from being killed, sooooooo….
It’s best to just not try and stop the conservatives from killing more people?
the democrats AREN’T killing people, but not doing enough to stop the people from being killed
Biden is actively aiding and abetting the genocide by sending munitions and tens of billions of dollars of war funding to Israel, and using America’s UN security council veto to prevent the UN from acting.
I think we should do what that California town did Seth they're mayoral elections... Let's elect a dog. If we can't do that, then I'll just vote for anyone who isn't Trump.
Do people not know that other elections besides president are going on? Republicans barely won the house in an midterm, no way they win it this time around. Also, no way Republicans get 60 senate seats. Supreme Court is going to SCOTUS regardless of the president, we just won't get to start fixing it for a while.
The only thing I worry about is Ukraine- but 6 more months of American help to shore up some good defensive lines and decrease Russian capacity and they could do without us for the next 2-4 years.
If you don't like Biden, just focus on your local and state races. If we win the house and senate but loose the whitehouse, maybe DNC will learn to push for exciting POTUS candidates (or to push for the interstate compact)
If trump wins he has 2 branches. The third branch has been effectively useless for years. No, I don't think it will protect anyone. Especially when the president has been given license to murder members of congress.
Republicans almost definitely win the house if Trump wins. They won't have 60 senators, but they could have a majority, there's more democrats up for election which a Trump victory could cause some to flip.
Yup, the centre and left needs to stop being so divided and just work together on things we agree with by voting for Joe Biden and supporting ranked choice.
Sad to say but if we vote Biden we'll stave off civil war for another 4 years but nothing will get done because Republicans will block everything as they've done.
If trump gets elected a lot of plan 2025 bullshit will be implemented, Republicans will setup a outright theocracy based on religion and put our laws back to the 1800's until the regular people (us) will protest and whine but we'll be the kindling that the right will use to ignite widespread instability furthering their reasoning to further put laws against the people.
Biden's position on Israel/Gaza isn't good, but it's entirely expected. Israel is the only real US ally in the Middle East, which means the US is going to side with Israel pretty much regardless of what Israel does for strategic reasons if nothing else. The odds we'd do anything more severe than asking nicely if they'd maybe tone it down a bit while still giving them everything they want is functionally zero.
And that's not really going to change regardless of who is president.
so genocide doesn't matter in the face of losing their tight grip hegemony over the middle east. isn't good is a bit of an understatement. i dont think this is a fair justification for what the us does around the world.
That stupid Adam Schiff keeps telling Biden to drop out. I think Schiff-head needs to shut the hell up. Is now really the time to undermine confidence in the incumbent?
Biden will drop out. Full stop. It's the people still defending him that are delaying the inevitable and lowering the chances of a Democrat president. Anyone who thinks Biden has the best chance to win is living in an isolated echo chamber at this point.
This is the closest real world example to The Emperor Has No Clothes that I've ever seen.
This additude is how we end up with a Weekend at Bernie's presidential candidate. Just like activism within national politics is essential to our country's vitality and growth, activism within party politics is essential for the party to stay relevant and effective. Just as our country will be lost to corporatocracy, oligarchy, and bigotry if no one fights for democracy, justice, and equality, our party will succumb to corporate donors, consultants, and myopic geriatrics if we sit on the sidelines.
Dems have a serious old people problem. We are the party of Dianne Feinstein, who clung to her senate seat until death despite being literally senile. We are the party of Ruth Bader Ginsberg. Hillary Clinton is another symptom of the same disease. She used the power she accumulated within the party over decades to foist herself on a reluctant party base by calling in favors and pulling strings that only someone who has grown old floating in the stratosphere of national politics can.
This country needs a revolution, and it needs to start within the Democratic Party.
There are a lot of hypothetical conversations in this thread about fascism and "November" but for me this election is about something actually happening right now. People are being exterminated by US weapons in Gaza. I will not be voting for an administration that sanctions genocide. There has to be a political price for this kind of behavior.
I can't acknowledge voting for the Democratic party as "the lesser of two evils." To me it looks like Americans are afraid of losing their country, while the rest of the world has been running for cover from American weapons for over a century. The era of American exceptionalism and impunity is over. It's time to rejoin the rest of the world. "Fascism or genocide" is not going to cut it.
Because for me politics is about principles and voting for my own interests and the interests of the greater good. There are people who are running who represent those interests. The duopoly is all about scaring people into voting for one of them, and I'm not going to respond to scare tactics.
Democracy is also about accepting multiple viewpoints and arguing your own. I won't be intimidated by this kind of thing.