“I think what you’re reacting to is that, at the moment, Biden is an unpopular president seeking a second term while Trump is a popular figure inside his party who is winning primary races. I wouldn’t necessarily compare the two.”

Credit to @JoshuaHolland

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      And then she still lost. Why? Because she was a conservative running as a Democrat because her husband gave her an in with the party.

      We do not currently have a liberal party in America. We have a bunch of dunce christian conservatives on the red side and we have a bunch of brainwashed not-christian conservatives on the blue side.

      We have VERY few that are anti-war, anti-genocide, anti-cash-in-politics, pro-working-class politicians because Hilary and her circle murdered the moral compass of the Democrat party.

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        Look, you have two choices:

        • You stay home and wake up in a nightmare where Trump uses his power to usurp the presidency and end democracy, because that’s exactly what he and his followers want.
        • You get your ass to the polls and vote for Biden.
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          I can’t support genocide from the Democratic party. I simply cannot morally vote for Biden, and you cannot demand or shame others into voting for him. That neo-liberal strategy is spent, we’ve reached the breaking point thanks to neo-liberal hubris, greed and tone deaf self-interest.

          Only chance the Dems have at reform is to let Biden fail, zionism needs to become toxic. We will never fix our government until the Democratic party is reformed and stops taking money from far right-wing groups like AIPAC.

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            So you will support it with inaction? There is no magic third door here. Both sides are pro-genocide, one can be worked on, one cannot. Vote blue to stop the worst, keep protesting to change the discussion. Sword and shield.

            My Republican family members are 100% behind the murder of all Palestinians. No aid. No ceasefire talks. Inaction will allow those people to call the shots. What use are morals if they don’t save anyone?

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              Both sides are pro-genocide, one can be worked on, one cannot

              Which is exactly what detractors are doing. Biden has shown zero motivation to budge on this issue, why in the hell would I think he’s going to get better about once he secures his second term? What on earth makes you think he will become more reasonable?

              No. The Democratic party cannot be “worked with” on this. Supporting genocide from Dems is a red line for me. The Democrats are not going to reform themselves, they’ve been getting further and further to the right. The only way they are going to change is through pain, as much as it takes to get them to stop. I’m willing to accept the pain myself to make it happen as well. AIPAC money needs to be treated like poison.

              Vote shaming doesn’t work anymore. 'The lesser of two evils" doesn’t work any more. “Gradual change” doesn’t work any more. The fucking idiots in this country will need to witness first hand where the GOP and Dems have led us, it’s literally the only way they can grasp it, when it starts to effect them.

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                I need you to understand this first—the slate is never clean. No one makes better decisions under increased chaos and uncertainty. Ever. They don’t learn. They don’t find their better selves. They use the hardship to justify atrocity. Why do you think rural communities are the way they are? People won’t suddenly open their eyes and say golly gee those leftists were right, we are all in this together and let us all put our best foot forward. Tomorrow is always yoked to yesterday. No matter how unfair, no matter how unjust, you can never raze enough of what came before to start again fresh. There is nothing that works but gradual change.

                Do not take my word for this. Start reading. You are ready for pain and death and to drink the hot blood of our enemies for the glorious revolution. But what the revolution really needs from you, is for you to suffer through some boring ass books. No shortcuts. No meme politics. No youtube activism. If this is not a thing you are willing to do, if this feels like throwing damp sand on the fire, I need you to think critically about that.

                Do you want equitable change or is it more important to keep that rage burning? If so how does that make you any different from a drunk on outrage MAGA fuckwit?

                Use all the tools at hand to save as many as you can. This means not letting the orange fucker back into power. You can vote blue and put a brick through the AIPAC’s office window if you so choose. All good lefties learn to walk and chew gum at the same time.

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                  Why do you think rural communities are the way they are? People won’t suddenly open their eyes and say golly gee those leftists were right

                  Again, if I wasn’t clear for some reason – this entire line of thinking that Democrats should be appealing to conservatives is why we’re in this position where you’re literally going to go vote for someone supporting a genocide. That’s *literally *what you are going to be voting for because your politics have put us all in this position.

                  Fuck gradual change. Where did that get us over the last 40 years? Look around you for christ’s sake, this is the result of your gradual change strategy, we’re living it right this very moment. Does it feel like our country is headed in the right direction?

                  I will never vote for anyone who supports a genocide. Period.

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                    So in summary because 70,000 Palestinians died… you think the lives of the million people sheltering in Rafah are forfeit? …Because once they started the genocide they might as all be dead anyways? What the fuck mate. Do you need someone to tell you that’s fucked up? That is fucked up.

                    And when did I say appeal to conservatives? Read mine again. You suggested plunging the worst off of America into suffering would magically cure them of their centrist tendencies. Reality is, where there is instability and inequality people grasp on to shitty xenophobic rhetoric to justify holding on to anything. I’m begging you. Read some history. Show me an example where dismantling the existing power structure in a time of instability worked. Not in the past 40 years. In the past 1,000.

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            Then you are pro-Trump, for all of the reasons that the rest of the replies have detailed better than me.

            Two choices! That’s it!

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          Agree

          I actually don’t even agree that Biden is a “lesser evil” in the first place, I’ve talked about it

          But even accepting for a second the premise that there’s nothing to support about Biden, I like how to these guys the lesson of 2016 and Hilary Clinton is “let’s refuse to support the establishment candidate against someone who’s clearly worse, what harm could come of it?”

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              I very much believe – I’m being completely serious about this – that 4chan making good memes about Trump becoming president, because it really is just inherently a funny idea, had a lot to do with elevating him from 0 support to a little kernel of popularity that could start to grow into something.

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                Boomers don’t pay attention to 4Chan. It’s such a small segment of the population.

                Gen X and Millennials pay attention to South Park, though. They see that “douche vs. turd sandwich” bit and think “Hey, that applies to our situation now!” Then they stay home in protest, because they don’t like certain aspects of Hillary’s campaign and ideals, as opposed to hating every aspect that Trump does or represents.

                It’s not about picking the “lesser evil”. It’s about having realistic expectations and analyzing the situation as a whole. During the primaries, you pick the candidate you want. During the general election, you pick the party you want, even if your primary pick didn’t win. That’s it.

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            The harm is being caused by Biden and his hubris, and by the establishments inability to learn from their utter failure in 2016.

            Neo-liberalism is dead. If dems want to win elections they need to stop propping up these empty suits and stop acting as if they can squeeze blood from the “disillusioned republican former-maga” stone. It’s really that simple.

            Millenials and GenZ simply can’t be written off anymore. They’re not going to vote for your Biden’s and Hillary’s.

            Bidens failure is his own, not that of voters.