Progressive Politics

The choice is between having an opportunity to make a difference and being actively prevented from doing so.

Because they didn't want to say lower class, so they say working poor. The middle class has been gutted and demolished

bigger thing is no surprise billing came directly out of bidens administration. that and the non compete thing are big for me.

In other words, protest votes are an expression of privilege.

how we can snap the Democratic Party out of this corporate controlled mediocrity.

You can't "snap the Democratic Party out of this corporate controlled mediocrity" because "corporate controlled mediocrity" is the point.

What? You actually thought they "represented" you?

We literally cannot. We need a new party and we need to start making a lot of noise about that.

When Trump wins we need to kill the Democratic party entirely and start something new, but I have no idea how to get the money for that... The ultra wealthy that support Democrats aren't going to help, they know the Democrats protect them...

All I know is there is no future for the Democratic party, or at least there really shouldn't be...

If the Democrats ran Wacky Waving Inflatable Arm Flailing Tube Man I'd rather vote for him than Trump.

yes, but everyone is worried too many idiots won't vote for her. it's risky. those idiots have stupid reasons like "because she's a woman" and they suck, but you can't ignore them this time.

You had your adorable little protest non-vote in 2016, with your “Hillary Clinton just doesn’t ‘do it’ for me” and the result was Donald farking Trump.

Here is my problem with this mindset. I didn't have "my adorable little protest non-vote". I was energized and hopeful for Bernie's campaign, but the Dem's and their moderate voter base had their adorable little "Bernie couldn't possibly win enough votes because Socialism, so you have to vote for our candidate that no one is excited about" push, so I sucked it up and voted for Hillary. And the result was Donald farking Trump. Because moderate Dem's would rather have Trump than meet Progressives even half way in the middle.

And now here we are, with another run of a candidate that fails to inspire passion amongst his voter base, going against Donald Farking Trump. And once again, I'm being told that I need to vote for the Dem candidate that I mostly just disagree with less than Donald Farking Trump.

So when does it stop being the fault of progressives who get disillusioned with the status quo? When does the fault start to lay with the Dem's and the moderate voters for preferring a Trump presidency over trying to meet the Progressive voting bloc halfway?

I'll vote for Biden (again), and I absolutely recommend that everyone do so just to do damage mitigation, but I'm getting so tired of the blame game moderates try and run just to deflect legitimate criticisms of their lackluster candidates.

Edit: To any on the left that are feeling really jilted by comment's like NutWrench's, please try and ignore the bullshit blame Dem's try to fling our way and remember that the key to long term success is solidarity, including with those who would blame and ridicule us. We need to play the hands we are dealt the best we can, and Biden is currently our "strongest" hand.

Republicans and interests in minors (pelling mistakes)