Democratic Primaries
In reply to the discussion: MSNBC's Joy Reid is getting desperate, pushing for Joe to leave race. She's getting lots of backlash [View all]Garrett78
(10,721 posts)People have convinced themselves that only Biden can win, based largely on a false narrative about what happened in 2016 and why.
Some honestly seem to think the key to winning is flipping Trump voters in PA, MI and WI. As opposed to boosting turnout among our base. Hundreds of thousands who showed up for Obama didn't show up for Clinton in key battleground states (it isn't that they voted for Trump; it's that they didn't vote at all or voted 3rd party). But people think flipping Trump voters is the key (and that nominating an old white male will do the trick). It's madness. This will be a base election. We need to boost turnout among POC, youth and white suburban women. That's what wins us the White House.
By the way, Jamelle Bouie wrote a good piece about the Obama-Trump voter that I've posted several times before: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2016/11/why-did-some-white-obama-voters-for-trump.html
People can't seem to grasp that A) some racists voted for Obama (like the racists who are married to a person of color and, therefore, can't be racist) following 8 years of Bush-Cheney and B) some of those Obama voters had become completely blinded by racism after 8 years of racist attacks on Obama (and are never coming back). Instead, they insist that a key to winning in 2020 is winning back a fraction of a fraction of voters who happened to vote for both Obama and Trump (due to *white* economic anxiety, 'cause - you know - POC don't experience economic anxiety--yeah, that's sarcasm). And, therefore, we need to nominate an old white man to defeat an old white man. Again, it's madness.
Jamil Smith of Rolling Stone is exactly right that non-racism isn't enough. We need someone well-versed in anti-racism. That ain't Biden. And Biden has made comments that suggest he's not even versed in non-racism.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided