Democrats have shot themselves in the foot

By SJ Otto

I received the article below in my e-mail. Since I got it, I can’t remember or find its source. It is well written and I like what it says. Unfortunately I have been talking to my friends and family and so far most of them will not support or even vote for Joe Biden. This is not much different from the last election we had. Many of my friends and family said they could not bring themselves to vote for Hillary Clinton. I supported Clinton and I had good reasons. Donald Trump was promising to get rid of Obamacare (Affordable Care Act). Hillary was promising to fix it. There were some other reasons to support Hillary—for example she would have been the first woman president in the US. But it was the health care issue that encouraged me to support Hillary. There was also the suspicion that Trump would be as bad as he turned out to be.

This time around the Democrats have chosen Joe Biden, who so far has not promised to change anything. I really don’t want four more years of Trump. But even I have a hard time promoting Biden for president. He has not promised to fix our health care problems. In fact he has been laughing at the idea of “health care for all.”

“Imagine what that would cost us,” he said a few months ago, in response to “health care for all.” My wife and I are spending a lot of our income on her diabetes medicines. He just laughs it off. We are not laughing. It is costing us a whole lot of money.

Once again most of my family and many of my friends will not support Biden. This time around I have even fewer reasons to encourage my friends and family to support Biden. I have one brother who has had trouble with his Social Security and he blames Biden for that.

So far Bernie Sanders and Biden have been in contact with each other. There are several months before the next election. If Biden is smart, he will meet with Sanders and come up with issues that will draw in some of the young people, who have worked for Sanders. If he doesn’t, I honestly don’t think he can win in November.

Too many pundits and politicians have tried to convince the Democrats they need to move to the middle or even to the right. Biden is very far to the right. A lot of young people are not interested in conservative politics. They can influence this elections and my guess is they will kill any chance that Biden has to win. The Democrats could have chosen between a number of candidates and they could have chosen some one with SOME progressive reasons to draw in the younger people. They picked the oldest and most reactionary candidate they could. I keep hearing people say: “these two are the same!”…. “I don’t want Trump, so why should I vote for a Democrat who is just the same?”

A lot could happen between now and November. Unless things really change a lot, Trump can expect four more years in office. And we can be sure he will be much worse after the next election if he wins.   

This web site can not seriously ask people to vote for Biden as things stand right now.

One more point I want to make and it is in response to this portion of the below article:

“All in all, we don’t know what party is going to take up the mantle of center-left and leftwing politics for this presidential election. It could be the Green Party (GP), Socialist Party USA (SPUSA), Party of Socialism and Liberation (PSL), Communist Party USA (CPUSA), Party of Communism USA (PCUSA), etc. We will keep you posted.”  

The one party I can not endorse is the Greens Party. It is an anti-socialist party. It is not progressive or leftist. I can not endorse any Green candidates.

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