While Education and Organizing is building the parts for a new engine the rest of the year.
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I think a lot of us are just scared right now. I know I've made some reactionary comments to people attacking Biden from the left out of my own sense of fear, and I'm a cishet white guy with a good paying job. I'm also a father of 2 daughters (one of whom may not be cishet, they're still figuring that part of themselves out). I feel sick to my stomach when I think about the Palestinians, and I feel sick to my stomach when I think of them inheriting a ruined planet, getting shot at school, needing or wanting a safe medical abortion at some point and a million other things that a vote for Biden is my only way to protect right now. I wish we had a more European-style, coalition-based party structure here, but we don't yet.
There are some powerful stereotypes about the Republican party being more homogeneous and the Democratic party being a big tent with lots of internal strife. The saying goes, "Republicans fall in line, Democrats fall apart." That and the unreliability of polls and all of those polls showing Trump way ahead mixed with the shit Project 2025 is talking about...its a lot, and it's scary. I think that's where a lot of the browbeating of leftists is coming from...the fear that a lot of them won't vote at all or won't vote for Biden and what the likely outcome of anyone besides Biden means...which is Trump.
Yep, that's why I gave a guide on how to properly talk to leftists. I'm about as left as they come, and will begrudgingly vote for Biden, because I understand just how pointless trying to vote America to the left is. Every major concession from Capitalists came from revolutionary pressure, such as the Civil Rights movement.