Democratic Primaries
In reply to the discussion: The idea that Democrats should make it their priority to get us back to "normal" is worse than naive [View all]Perseus
(4,341 posts)It is a great article that spells out the deficiencies of Biden, and like the author, I will vote for Biden if he becomes the nominee, but am I pulling for him to be the nominee? No, and some of the reasons are spelled out in that article.
His fantasy that he can negotiate with Republicans is one of his biggest weaknesses, he did it once and we lost, it was a win-win for republicans, he gave the house to "Mitch", etc. Why was it that he could not negotiate with Republicans when he was VP and now, though magic, if he becomes president he will be able to do it? He now has a secret formula? His biggest weakness being that he wants to be liked by all, and he will do things he should not do to try to gain that acceptance.
I am not sure who you referred to as "unelectable ultra left" candidate (I call them PROGRESSIVES), but maybe because Beto is one of the candidates who wants to remain in the status quo that you find other people too on the left. There are experiments in the World that you may consider "unelectable ultra left" that have proven that the ideas of the Scandinavian countries that have yielded solid societies, well educated societies, and some of the happiest people on earth implemented those ideas many years ago and the results have been nothing but fantastic, those are the progressive ideas you seem to think are too on the left.
People at DU are always complaining about other people when they express their opinion about a candidate they don't want, and if there is any bashing I have heard is "unelectable ultra left", that is a good one republicans will use a lot, that will scare a lot of people even when they don't understand what it means, which to me is nothing but "progressive ideas".
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided