The Case for Biden
Facing the prospect of a Trump restoration, elements of the American left have taken to spurning a Democratic president and pushing for uncommitted votes in our Washington presidential primary and other states. A bad idea.
These voices are pursuing a politics of grievance, overreach, tin-eared choice of issues, and above all self indulgence. It threatens a repeat of recent history when Ralph Nader drained just enough votes in Florida to send George W. Bush to the White House, and the nasty Jill Stein campaign directed all its fire at Hillary Clinton.
The pretenders are back in 2024, putting a target squarely on the back of our moderately reformist Democratic Party while failing to fathom the threat posed by a would-be strongman with scant knowledge of or respect for the Constitution.
Lately, for instance, weve watched pro-Palestinian protesters follow New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (a leading reformer in Congress) into a movie theater. Her alleged sin: failing to accuse Israel of genocide for its actions in Gaza. AOC insisted she had used the term. She had it lucky since Arizona Sen. Krysten Sinema was followed into a bathroom.
https://www.postalley.org/2024/03/07/the-case-for-biden/?mc_cid=df57747983&mc_eid=a0c4847065
Walleye
(31,044 posts)Dont understand why this simple concept is so difficult to grasp. They want to make a difference, let them run for office, let them write editorials, but dont fuck up the election. Please
usonian
(9,857 posts)My daughter's response was WOW.
And I make the case, too.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=18754657
Hear me well!
The politics of grievance are self-defeating
This is how Orange Shitler convinces losers that they are "winners" as they are taken to the chicken plant to be plucked.
And I tell the "abstainers" that they are "stainers" of their shorts and of the future if they allow a deranged hater of everything and everyone not kissing and fattening his golden hind, to take more power than a 5 watt lightbulb.