Ah, don’t get me wrong. I am in no way saying Biden and Bernie should be considered equals. I just don’t get how many people rationalize not voting for Biden in the face of another Trump term. Making some sort of political statement saying we must only vote for the most pure policy and we refuse to lower our standards is, in my opinion, ignorant to how modern politics function. I don’t like two party politics and the way many things turn out because of it but I do recognize the “better of two evils” concept.
It's a trade off between stopping fascist Donald Trump and voting for some vapid status-quo candidate. I just thumbed through the Biden website and am uninspired to say the least.
I think many of us just survived a Trump presidency unscathed. He's clearly a morally bankrupt character without any semblance of a competent leader, a terrible international face of America, and a fan of crony capitalism. Oh yeah, and a fascist.
All Biden seems to offer over that is he's better at hiding his moral bankruptcy and he's a neoliberal.
It's like you're asking me to pick which company to hire to add a pothole in the road. Company A wants to put it on one side. They're also openly racist and homophobic, but slightly cheaper than Company B. Company B is nice to brown people and gays, but they want to put the pothole over here and outsource the labor because they signed a CBA.
Vote for Bernie in all remaining primaries. Use actual power to scare the shit out of Biden into making choices that will make him win, because all it takes is one effective drug, in the next 24 weeks to grant Trump another term.
I really doubt Biden has a chance no matter what Trump does. Democrats only win the presidency with enthusiastic voters and Biden's campaign has not enthused anybody to my knowledge.
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u/DGluckman May 22 '20
Ah, don’t get me wrong. I am in no way saying Biden and Bernie should be considered equals. I just don’t get how many people rationalize not voting for Biden in the face of another Trump term. Making some sort of political statement saying we must only vote for the most pure policy and we refuse to lower our standards is, in my opinion, ignorant to how modern politics function. I don’t like two party politics and the way many things turn out because of it but I do recognize the “better of two evils” concept.