2020 Democratic Primary

Kamala Harris just endorsed Biden. A year ago she called him a racist.

 

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It's quite simple. Bernie is a nut that was talking about tearing down the economy and building a new one; an economy that (until this coronavirus panic) was doing very well for most people. Yes, some people slipped through the cracks, but for most people things are going quite well. It's a tone deaf message to come in and want to tear down something that is working for most people, and the people it's not working for (mostly the young) are the least likely to vote. The Democrats rallied around Biden because years of political science have shown that relying on young voters never works. They need to get Trump out of office and Bernie would not have done that, period. Biden has a shot.

 

One thing the last four years have taught me is there is a large contingency of Trump supporters that no matter what he does or says, they will stand by him and justify it. If he murdered 100 puppies in Time Square on national television, his core would smile and convince themselves that somehow the puppies had it coming. Bernie enjoys the same type of allegiance from his faithful. Despite praising stuff that dictators did, or writing stories about women's rape fantasies, or promising free stuff for everyone by taking however much he needs to from everyone else...if Bernie says it, it's gospel.

Identity politics has taken us down a road where people aren't willing to think for themselves and produce their own set of beliefs. They feel the need to belong so they instead rally around a set of beliefs as if they are a package deal and believing in one thing necessitates believing in all of it.

 

Biden can win. I personally won't vote for him or Trump. But Biden is the only person over there that has a shot. (Bloomberg might have if he had even a shred of charisma.) I don't think Biden will win, but he can.

 

Just watch the first 2 minutes. Cussing out voters.... no, he can't win. Dementia is a horrible disease. So is his attitude where he feels he can cuss at people asking questions in a mature manner.

 

I mean, Trump does the same sort of stuff in his tweets. I don't like Biden. I think he's a weak candidate. But I don't like Trump either. I wrote someone in last time. I will do the same this time. But to think Biden is going to be a pushover is severely underestimating how badly a great deal of the country hates Trump. Hillary got millions more votes than Trump and she was one of the most despicable people to run for office in recent memory.

You know I lean right/libertarian. But Trump vs Biden is 50/50 at this point. If Coronavirus gets a lot worse, I think Biden will win; fair or not as it pertains to the Presdient's actual impact (he has little to none).

 

Worst set of candidates ever? I think it’s possible, I can maybe remember equally lame, but not worse. It’s wild to me that there are all these super smart people in the country, truly great people, and we can’t get one of them to run. I guess it takes a lot of money too, and it wouldn’t really matter because the president seems largely a figurehead to me fulfilling the agenda of every person behind him with the real power whispering in his ear, but still. You’d think we could at least find a likable figurehead.