No, my attitude is “either is an enemy, and either will have to be fought accordingly.”

He’s not. But Biden offers nothing positive in comparison. The thing he hinges his campaign on — a return to “normalcy” — is exactly what enabled a Trump presidency in the first place. Normalcy didn’t work before and promising its restoration is a million times more unlikely than the most “radical” plan offered up by…

It’s mindboggling to me that anyone’s response to this moment would be to recreate the conditions that led us here, which is what Biden is literally campaigning on. He’s been on the wrong side of almost every single issue of the modern era, and displays nothing but contempt for the problems of oppressed and working…

Good piece. It’s a particularly sinister narrative that the candidate with the most diverse base of support is framed as a stand-in for the white male vote, but that’s the way this was always going to go.

an actual human with the capacity for empathy, the ability to take responsibility for his actions and admit when he’s wrong, and a genuine interest in trying to do what’s best for all of America

Biden also said he’d consider a Republican for VP, so maybe Sarah Palin’s got another shot at this thing. 

Capitalism is killing us but we don’t have to let it

Seems like this would be a great time to make healthcare universal and free at the point of service, cancel debts and evictions and guarantee housing as a human right, nationalize utilities (including the internet), channel trillions of dollars into public infrastructure and building an actual workable social…

Has it ever been more obvious that these are literally fake, self-invented obstacles?

Personally, I’m kind of sadly loling at the fact that by fiat we have $1.5 trillion — the sum total of outstanding debt in this country — to inject into the financial markets and shore up Boomers’ retirement accounts, and we can waive whatever healthcare fees we want when we decide it’s politically expedient, but the…

Lol try that line on the many, many, many vulnerable people whom Biden’s election wouldn’t help at all and see where it gets you. He’s gonna lose. 

Sure. Biden’s horrific record: pro-war (Iraq and many many other imperialist US interventions), pro-financial deregulation (the Senator from MNBA), pro-mass incarceration (the literal author of the Crime Bill), anti-drug decriminalization, the reason Clarence Thomas sits on the Supreme Court, key part of the…

What he stands for is, in his own words, that “nothing will fundamentally change.”

Don’t you understand that if we simply avoid mentioning Joe Biden’s horrific record and absolute lack of appeal to anyone under 45, those issues will simply go away in time for a general election?

Well, Biden’s going to struggle with voters under 45, not 30, and while youth turnout has been consistent with prior elections the Dem primary field has been absolutely swamped by Boomers looking to keep the reins of a crumbling system. It is what it is, and it’s a lesson the left has unfortunately had to learn over…

Whoo boy, this is Kerry ‘04 all over again huh? An electorate of the aged clamoring for a return to “normalcy” getting spooked and rallying to prop up an obviously deficient blowhard who offers nothing to anyone under the age of 45, with the added bonus of this year’s model literally sundowning in front of the entire…

The demographics hit hardest by that were college students, Latinos, and Black voters — two of those three being among his biggest bases of support. It’s not just gamesmanship either; older Black voters heavily favor Biden but it’s fucking disgusting to see them denied an easy vote.

Excuse me, got your avi confused with a different person’s! Sanders is the only candidate in the race whose aims are even close to adequate to address the scale of the issues we currently face — on climate, economics, debt, education, healthcare, racial justice, ICE, reproductive freedom, US militarism — he’s the only…

I don’t think Bernie is a guaranteed win. I do think Biden is a guaranteed loss. 

That’s all well and good, but you’ve been talking about a) your familiarity with the various policy differences and similarities between the three and b) how your primary concern is electability; the fact that Biden will lose to Trump should be a pretty salient point, no? If you want to go into the superiority of…