Democrats need to pull themselves together and remember: Biden is still better than Trump
Democrats need to pull themselves together and remember: Biden is still better than Trump
Democratic strategists, liberal pundits are making a living off doubting President Joe Biden's viability in the 2024 presidential election. Why?
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.
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"No no, enabling fascism will definitely cause a swing to the left this time. After Trump, our turn!"
"I'm rich and white, so Accelerationism isn't going to negatively impact ME, just those vulnerable sacrificial pawns known as minorities, poor people, the disabled, and the LGBTQ+" - Tankies
I actually got kicked out of my local Socialist Party USA chapter for pointing this out. Leader of it claimed it was because I was a "Rape Apologist" to discourage allies I had in the party from speaking to me.
The leader was a white cishet who was a higher up for a local cable company, ironically enough his workers actually went on strike under his leadership.
Eh I was thinking of leaving anyway, my proposals for "Actually do something on the municipal level to benefit the local community and win people to our side." kept getting shot down in favor of "Get everyone to vote for a nutjob third party for President, yes, that green party wacko who keeps going to bat for curing autism with crystals and transphobic dogwhistles!" and every other discussion was "China good actually!"
Honestly I had my suspicions about the guy when he disavowed Bernie for, get this, "Refusing to advocate for violence against police officers in recent campaign speech" (As if that was a realistic expectation, imagine if Bernie had done that. Guy would have left the podium in cuffs), dude was a total nutcase.