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If Biden loses in November, don’t blame voters who are angry over Gaza | Arwa Mahdawi
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 28 Feb 2024
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The top of the wishlist of any reasonable and rational American should be, "Don't permit a fascist demagogue to become a petty tyrant." Biden fulfills that order handily, and if that's not enough for someone to get them to vote for him, then the blame lies with that voter.
If Biden can't beat a fascist demagogue and petty tyrant and Trump ends up winning, then I'd argue it's your fault for backing a losing candidate over someone who actually might have actually defeated Trump. The blame would fall squarely on your shoulders.
Who, exactly, is this mythical figure that could beat Trump at this point in the game? C'mon, give us a name.
Haley.
All you care about is beating trump right?
Sanders.
Once Biden steps down all the nevertrumpers will jump on board.
The blame will fall squarely on the voters who stood idly by navel-gazing while a fascist took power.
Oh, not the party loyalists like yourself who would rather back a losing candidate than allow a winner to run in their place?
Have you ever stopped to consider how someone could find a bloated, orange maniac more appealing than the guy you're trying to shame everyone into voting for and what that says about your political views?
Which person, specifically, would be better to vote for than Biden that has a reasonable chance of winning?
Sanders would bring in the most, make him the nominee and you would keep the never trumpers, bring in some moderates, lose some moderates.
The math comes down to would the amount of moderates/independents you lose to apathy or trump, double points for the ones who would vote trump instead of sanders since the other team gains 1 and you lose 1, compared to how many moderates/independents and how many leftists you get.
I'd love to have Sanders, I voted for him last primary, and I'd vote for him again.
He's not running. You don't win with a candidate who's not running for election.
Idk what to tell you friend, that sounds like something we have 9 months to fix.
At every opportunity Biden has had he has continued to support Israel’s genocidal actions.
He says differently, and god do I feel for people like blinken and the UN lady that has to be the face of support for things like that.
Maybe it is the rest of humanity that is wrong and we should be supporting the deaths of innocent brown kids.
It is the American way after all
No, it's not. You don't sub out a candidate with someone who, nine months before the election, has no interest in running for the office. That's a pipe dream doing nothing but distracting you from the reality that it's going to be Biden vs. Trump, and despite how imperfect you feel Biden is, you're going to have to vote for him, because the alternative is fascist authoritarianism.
Come November, Sanders will be voting for Biden. I suggest you follow his lead.
Whose vote is more important to you, the people who would disagree if Biden kept supporting Israel’s genocidal actions or the people who support them?
You only get to pick one group.
Absolutely irrelevant. The fact of the matter is that Biden will be the nominee against Trump, regardless of what happens in Palestine. Doing anything besides voting for him is holding the door open for fascism to take over when Trump takes power.
You either do the bare minimum to stop Trump by voting for his only viable opponent, or you let him come to power with your blessing. Those are the only two options in November.
I might vote for Haley, I haven’t heard her calling for genocide on either side.
Besides she’s not Biden, not trump, and pissing off and trolling trump.
Last time I voted with my head I chose the wrong guy and he said yeehaw to killing him some brown folks
Friend I don’t care who the democratic nominee is, I went independent after Clinton 2
Right now, today, supporting Biden any further is handing Trump a W.
Biden has lost the election at this point. It would be the biggest election upset of ALL TIME if he came back to win it. No incumbent this far down in the polling has EVER won an election.
If you truly want to stop Trump, stop brow beating people into supporting a lost cause and work to have a conversation around how we can get a better candidate. I think Shawn Fein.
Oh god, finally gave a name. Who the hell is Shawn Fein? If I haven't already heard of them, it's a lost cause too - because they have no brand recognition. This is the dilemma and one I've been banging on about since before Obama. It's kind of insane the Democratic party seems to hope for a repeat of that once in a lifetime basically out of nowhere candidate / win. For reasons I don't get, Democrats are not building up people in advance to be candidates. So people have at least heard of them.
The problem is as far as I know there aren't any well known middle aged democrats who could run that have any national stance. Schumer is also too old, Bernie is also too old, and then there's the sexism that makes me question if Warren could run, and then there's the racism that makes Kamala and Cortez pretty unlikely to get far either.
I thought the entire four years that Democrats needed to have someone in the news and convince Biden to back them a year ago. That didn't happen. We already lost this years ago if Biden can't win it. I'm just still amazed that there's any support for Trump (well, ever, but certainly after the facts of his first term).
Point taken on Shawn Fein. He is the UAW president, and got Biden to come down to the picket line.
But overall, almost 100% agree. I don't see any current Democrats with 'enough' of the right stuff to get handed the reigns and win. Its why I'm looking outside the party. I really think if Jon Stewart were to throw his hat in, he could win. He's young enough, he doesn't have the baggage that an existing candidate has, people know him, he's a darling of the left. He's been politically active although he hasn't run (point against I supposed, but not a deal breaker. Didn't stop Trump did it?).
Biden has blown this campaign with his position on Israel. He needs to drive voters out, and he's pulling a classic Democrat move of just assuming that the support for him is there. The ship is sinking. This is a five-alarm fire moment. He has no opponents in this primary and is losing support. You don't win elections like that.
If the liberals are going to keep insisting that we support Biden even though it becomes more and more clear as time goes on that he isn't going to win, I don't know where that leaves us. I don't want to suffer through what Trump will do to this country. If Trump wins, I'd be shocked if we even have elections again. Expect every non-cis person in this country to be rounded up and executed. I don't think its hyperbole to suggest that. I think the right would do that today if they had the power.
And Obama solidly lost his election against Romney if you looked at polls this far out. A strong case can be made that polls at this point are not predictive.
Ignoring the fact that mine and most American's immediate reaction to this is "Who?", the fact that he has zero experience in elected office will be disqualifying to most people. He seems like a decent guy, and I'd love to see him in some sort of office some day, but this is not a serious suggestion.
Also, to quote him:
https://twitter.com/ShawnFainUAW/status/1758917912318902276