While rebutting another post here on Lemmy, I ran into this. This says exactly what I want to say.
I am not a friend of Biden’s Administration. I think they drug their feet over a variety of things ranging from holding Trump and his goons accountable for January 6th through rulemaking on issues like OTC Birth Control and abortion rights, and yes, I think he’s too quick to please big business. But then I remember what the alternative is, and … well, disappointed in Biden or not, I’m voting for him. Because my wife is a Black bisexual goth woman, four strikes under Team Pepe’s tent. And I have my own strikes for marrying her as a White dude, and respecting her right to not have kids since she doesn’t want them is another strike against me. And I care about my Non-Christian, Gay, Transgender, and Minority friends, and will never willingly subject them to Team Pepe.
I agree with a lot of what you’re saying. And yes, he’s been more progressive than Obama on a lot of things, not that that’s saying much.
I’ll have to look into him getting the rail workers what they wanted after the dust settled, I hadn’t heard about that.
I’m not sure how his loss would push the Dems further right, care to elaborate? In 2016 just having Bernie debating with the other candidates pushed the conversation a little left. And I think the loss he’s about to face might help wake up the Dems in terms of pushing that Overton window. I share your concerns about Christo fascism etc but I feel like him winning would only make Dems more complacent in giving zero shits about anyone but the donor class. And I also see the Republican party fracturing so I’m not as convinced that the country will instantly begin to burn if Trump wins again. It won’t be better for it for four years, but I’m not compelled by the democracy is on the line and everyone is going to go into handmaid’s tale territory argument. That’s putting words in your mouth I just don’t have time to reword it right now.
To that point, and I’m not saying you agree with their approach, the Dems betrayed their “party of democracy” rhetoric the minute they decided to conduct this campaign the way they did by rigging the primary and refusing to let Señor Senile debate. The reason he’s the only one who can beat Trump (which at this point is true) isn’t necessarily because he would’ve won in the primary or that he’s someone people genuinely believe is the most fit for the job. I’d bet my balls to a barn dance that if one of the other candidates would have won in the primary against Biden, this election would be a shoe in for Dems. And I could say that about more than one of the candidates who wanted to debate in the primaries. Edit: or even be allowed on the damn ballot.
And then there’s well, the fact that I just can’t bring myself to vote for a guy who’s enabled this genocide the way he has. I’ve heard people say that no matter what he does at this point, that one issue is why they refuse to vote for him under any circumstances, and I don’t blame them. I don’t know how I’ll feel when the time actually comes, but my heart physically hurts at the thought of helping him in any way.
Edit: Bernie in 2020 debates. And a word.