I voted for Biden because he wasnโt Donald Trump.
this post was submitted on 16 Sep 2023
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So did I, but I have to say he's done better than I expected. I almost think because he's another Old White Man he can slip stuff through that would have gotten shot down by the rest of the Old White Men if Obama had tried it, or a woman, or even a progressive OWM. Maybe it's because they know he's not going to press for more progressive goals so they don't see it as a slippery slope and dig in their heels. At least in his geezerly way he seems to have the best long-term interests of the people at heart.
Hmmm, a center-right candidate who seems to believe in the political process to achieve what he thinks is best for the country, even if I don't agree with much of it, versus a demagogue cult leader grifter whose followers want full-on authoritarianism? Tough choice, tough choice.
Yes, I have warned for years that the Democrats' triangulation and lesser-evilism would get us here, but here we are, and democracy is awful hard to regain once it's gone, so there it is.
Remember back when these candidates were the moderate republicans? That tea party crap was something.
I'd vote for a bag of Biden's toenail clippings if the other option is Trump (or one of the neonazis that have surfaced in Trump's wake).
It's like asking if you'd rather eat a plate of raw spinach; or be shot in the mouth with a 10 gauge. Whether or not I like spinach is moot: gimme that fucking plate!
...cue the army of morons proclaiming that "I dOnT likE sPiNaCh OR geTtInG sHoT, sO iM jUst goNna LeT tHe OthEr vOteRs deCiDe fOr mE!!1!"
For 15 seconds of goddamn peace and quiet. I'd gladly take another 15, maybe even a full minute.
Locking this thread per rule #2; we don't have the bandwidth to moderate political discussions.
I didn't. I was in California, so my vote was irrelevant anyways. I've been living with my mom, so I decided to use it to make a point.
I was like, "look Mom! I don't approve of Biden's hair sniffing, so I'm voting for Jorgenson! You can do the same! That's an option!"
It didn't work. She voted for Trump. (Don't worry. She was also in California so her vote was also irrelevant). You'd think with her personal history, she'd have been AGAINST serial sexual predators... but I guess his cult of personality was just too strong. She still genuinely believes he "stood up to the globalists."
But now I live in Nevada. I will be voting for Biden because
- the CHIPS Act is going to put chip manufacturing at the mercy of union labor
- and with the solidarity whipped up by places like Antiwork? It's going to be a bloodbath.
- his bans on slave labor solar panel imports will do the same thing. Union laborers won't need to compete with slave owners.
- he halted ICE worksite immigration raids, which were basically used to terrorize migrant workers and keep them complacent (hence lowering their wages, and by extension, lowering the market price of labor)
- he "played the long game" and helped win rail workers those sick days they were fighting for.
- he kept student loan payments paused for the first 33 months of his term and tried to get a decent chunk forgiven
- he appointed trust-busting advocate Lina Kahn to the FTC, where she is now a chairwoman
- he appointed pro-labor lawyer Jennifer Abruzzo to the NLRB, where she recently set an anti-union-busting precedent that, according to Harold Meyerson at Prospect.org, "makes union organizing possible again"
He's silently, steadily, baby-stepping us in the right direction. And that's worth a vote of support, not just a vote for a lesser evil.
As much as I hate liberals they're still meaningfully better than fascists, and nobody I agree with had a meaningful chance of even being noticed.
4 more years of Trump seemed just a little less appetizing than 4 years of a geriatric capitalist lame duck.
Recent elections I'm familiar with have all been against something or someone rather than for. People generally seem to prefer a bullet to the knee to a bullet to the temple.
I voted third party.