No, those were your exact words - "Trump is almost preferable to Biden." There is no spin out of that. The direction of the United States on November 4, 2020 is more important than the progressive street cred of the Democratic Party.I can see you obviously cherry-picked, I specifically said it was the lesser of two evils argument meaning while Biden may be better he he is almost less preferable because of another reason you obviously didn't read. Many people don't want to see our party becoming a Bill Clinton Party all over again. I could state that in different terms of course if you didn't understand the first time. Despite what you think hardcore Bernie supporters actually aren't trump supporters they're just too "Extreme to be called democrats" which is nonsense. Want a higher minimum wage like every other country in the world, too bad we say, just continue to get profited off of your boss at McDonald's. The Main Reason why Biden is less preferable is simply so our party doesn't become more moderate in a time where tougher measures need to be taken. Like the guy that I quoted was saying it is better to wait to make a final last push against big things like climate change and racism instead of making a flimsy push that will be replaced with a Republican when we most need a reliable Democrat.
I understand the argument- Biden is better than Trump, My couch would even be a better president than Trump. But voting Biden could do considerable damage to our party which most people just look straight over. And considering his horrible voting numbers on this page most people don't have any enthusiasm for him whatsoever(No one that would be good for president just gets lower than Tulsi Gabbard(I can say however that Pete Buttigeg probably would've been 100x worse ))
Dude the President isn't as influential in policy-making as you're suggest. The difference between a "moderate" Democrat and a "progressive" Democrat in actual governing has little to do with ideology and more to do with how good of a deal maker that particular person is. Nancy Pelosi and whomever the Senate Majority Leader is run the ship legislatively; the President is just an advocate.Exactly, his whole platform is I can beat Trump, once he does that he might have plans for climate change and other problems, but those plans probably aren't going to do shit. He clearly doesn't have a plan for anything else, as he still hasn't stated what he is going to do about such major problems. He just says that he has the plans. Following a recent thing I talked about is if he picks a young progressive to be his VP that person could be like the actual brain of the presidency and Joe Biden is still the face of it, which is still bad but progressive things could actually get done. As I said, in the Dick Cheney-George W Bush presidency, George W Bush was like Biden, not in touch with the world, and Dick Cheney was like the hidden brain of the presidency doing many horrible things that are all attributed to George W Bush. If we could form a progressive form of this it would still satisfy the Biden supporters while all the progressive things that needed to get done are still done. The downside of this is all the good things get attributed to Biden further increasing the moderate voter-base which would suck quite a lot. What do you guys think?
As for not getting anything done - there are over 400 bills sitting on Mitch McConnell's desk. They'll continue to collect dust as long as he is Senate Majority Leader. We can do the rhetorical circle jerk all day long but it won't change that reality. Elections have consequences.
What makes "progressives" entitled to big support for "progressive policies" when they couldn't even get 40% of the primary vote? All that energy sure as hell didn't translate into votes. Just to put that in perspective, if it were the Senate "progressives" wouldn't even be able to filibuster.Biden's victory in the primaries is just a demonstration that you could literally make zero concessions to progressives despite a huge grassroots excited progressive energy and big support among democrats for progressive policies. You could literally say "fuck you" to what is not only popular but drastically necessary (M4A, fixing climate problems, etc).