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1) A Harris/Biden ticket represents everything wrong with the Democratic party today: on the part of Biden, the absence of real progressive reforms (corporate regulation, healthcare for all, dismantling of private insurance), and on the part of Harris, the pandering to wokeness.
2) It’s the absence of the best of progressivism and the presence of the worst of it, the absence of the best of leftist economic policies combined with obsequious catering to the worst of cheap leftist thought and emotion.
3) One could make the case that Biden's record is to the right of Trump's when it comes to a number of issues, such as cutting entitlements, increasing punishments for criminals, supporting foreign wars, etc. Biden's record on these is outlined here: https://www.currentaffairs.org/2020/03/democrats-you-really-do-not-want-to-nominate-joe-biden
4) I've spoken to multiple Bernie supporters who, following the party's concerted efforts to undermine the one candidate about whom we could get excited, told me that they will be voting for Trump. To go from Bernie to Trump may seem odd (and it's not an option for me), but >
5) it reflects the sense of utter frustration that accompanied the way that the party leadership and left-leaning media did everything they could to curtail Bernie's momentum and undermine a powerful campaign, only to foist upon us the least exciting candidate of the primaries.
6) And voting for the wokeness that Harris displayed during the primaries is to vote for a cultural trend and a certain politically correct language, but without any support for economic policies that bring healthy change to our society.
7) Contrary to the language she uses (but unsurprisingly), Harris—like Biden—is not a real progressive and aspects of her track record mirror facets of Biden's problematic past, as detailed in the article shared above.
8) We’re now in a situation where we have to choose between voting for an actual racist or for the new wokeness that is similarly antithetical to liberalism. Either option means choosing a nearly incoherent person to represent us. For me this is a nearly impossible choice.
9) Perhaps the only alternative is a third party. People love to say that a third-party vote is a thrown-away vote, but I simply cannot accept the assertion that I must perpetually choose between the lesser of two evils.
10) The Democratic party betrayed its own constituents this year and in no way deserves a win. But then… the alternative is 4 more years of a man who has consistently undermined our democracy & basic institutions, & fomented hatred. It's an impossible dilemma. Good luck America.
11) By the way, my assessment of Biden was pre-Tara Reade, but additionally, I do believe her. There are the divorce papers where her ex comments on how the assault destabilized their marriage, there's her mother's call to Larry King, etc.
12) An assault did happen. You could make the case that Reade has transferred her memory of it onto an entirely different figure—just so long as you're comfortable maintaining that the narrative of an apparently sane and rational woman is entirely imaginary and untrustworthy.
13) (And wasn’t that the Republican response to Blasey Ford’s allegations? I.e., that she was assaulted but just got mixed up about who actually perpetrated it…)
14) The eagerness to pursue Kavanaugh’s past juxtaposed with the uncomfortable avoidance of Tara Reade reveals how the supposed care for victims is instrumentalized for partisan agendas. Not sure how Kamala will square that circle.
