Democratic Primaries
In reply to the discussion: Trashing the Democratic front runner [View all]NNadir
(33,574 posts)I have never been concerned about the alleged "right" in the Democratic party. Not once. Ever.
The fact is that many Democrats here, myself included, express open hostility to Sanders because he is a divisive figure.
I love my country, and to me the most important thing is that there is now a Nazi in the White House. I don't give a shit about people with their heads up their asses about abstractions like "New Democrats."
I'm an old Democrat, and have been one for more than half a century. I'm disgusted by boring fixations on some kind of nebulous purity.
I would think that anyone who gave a shit about this country would recognize that some of the country isn't embracing people's vision of ideological purity. Therefore they would reject a divisive candidate.
I really, really, really, really am tired of old white men - and I'm speaking of as an old white man - running around with intellectual inflexibility.
Replacing Trump on the far right with a tired old leftist attached to a nearly extinct ideology has no appeal for me. Different ways of being incompetent and inflexible does not change the fact that it is still incompetence and inflexibility.
The Sandersnistas used to complain endlessly about having to vote for "the lesser of two evils" with their nonsensical view of reality.
If I had to vote for Sanders to get rid of Trump, I would do so, but it would be as appalling to me as the whiny bastards on the Stein/Sarandon front - some of whom refused to vote for an intelligent and decent woman in 2016 - claimed it would be for them.
A choice between TwittleTrump and TwittleBern would complete the destruction of the US intellectual infrastructure, a process that needs to be stopped, not furthered.
Now maybe you think that "New Democrats" need to be confronted more than we need to confront the Nazi in the White House.
I strongly disagree.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden