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]Hortensis
(58,785 posts)only one that counts, and there's still a lot of campaigning to go. However, people who know we must win this election simply don't try to take out the currently most redoubtable candidate -- at any time.
As for the reality that racist attitudes are pervasive among every racial group in every nation on the planet, including the Democratic Party, and are always exacerbated in anxious times, is this supposed to be new? Or suddenly such a compelling problem in our party that we must turn our backs on the Republicans to stomp it out -- right now, starting with our currently strongest candidate?
No one should ever turn their backs on these Republicans. I wasn't being frivolous in pointing out that everything that happened after the far right took control, and we couldn't get it back, would happen worst to minorities. These people are mean and their racism isn't the ingrained "white liberal" thoughtlessness type, it's aggressively vicious.
The Repubs can't win free elections any more, so at most they'd put on phony ones, which they are already doing where they can. And with that minorities would lose the power of the vote that all rights and protections depend on. AAs above all know that'd be true, of course, but maybe past time to consider just how bad it could become.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden