Biden electability

[Wanderfound]

@fnordius

I am actually seeing that a lot here, and not just from you: a gut dislike against Warren, or in @Wanderfound’s case Biden,

To be fair to Biden, I also think that most of the rest of the US ruling class are corrupt, racist, mass-murdering scum. He’s not the only one.

And there’s nothing “gut” about it; it’s based upon a lifetime study of world history.

@fnordius

which is demotivating, disheartening and just plain turning people off.

Which is part of my point.

@Wanderfound

General prognostications:

1. GOP control of redstate electoral administration renders the majority of states extremely resistant to democratic reform.
2. The only possible way to overcome that is via a turnout surge of sufficient magnitude that it overwhelms GOP efforts at voter suppression. “Likely” voters won’t cut it; unlikely voters are required.
3. None of the establishment candidates have the slightest chance of generating the required turnout surge. The working class simply will not come out in sufficient numbers for yet another neoliberal imperialist.

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@Wanderfound

Much more valuable than money is time .

Grassroots volunteers. Knock on doors, phone bank, support your local unions on the picket lines, show up for immigrant support networks, get involved with the DSA or your local anarchists.

Politics is not a spectator sport.

A Biden nomination would be absolutely catastrophic for volunteer and voter turnout. Almost every part of the Democratic Party’s supposed base has good reason to despise him.