āThe guy is not a democrat with a small d,ā the president told CNNās Erin Burnett.
PresidentĀ Joe Biden said in an interview Wednesday he is all but certainĀ Donald Trump, his predecessor and presumptive 2024 rival, will reject the results of the November election and called Trump ādangerousā for the nation.
āThe guy is not a democrat with a small d,ā Biden toldĀ CNNās Erin Burnett during a visit to Wisconsin this week.
āHow many court cases do they have, Supreme Court cases? Theyāve all said this is a totally legitimate election. ā¦ HeĀ mayĀ not accept the outcome of the election? I promise you he wonāt. Which is dangerous.ā
The president went on to say other world leaders had expressed to him their fear of a second Trump presidency and pointed to Trumpās pledge to prosecute his political opponents if he enters the Oval Office once more.
Who said do nothing? Iām saying your suggestion of continually rewarding corporate dems with power has failed.
If your political strategy has brought us to the point where weāre literally condoning genocide with our vote then itās a failure. You understand that, right? If the Chosen One the Dem establishment has forced on us is nevk and neck with Donald Trump then that establishment is a failure and continuing to reward them with power for these pied piper bullshit strategies is not going to lead to progress.
Theyāve been doing it for forty years and all weāve gotten for it is a tightening noose around our freedoms as they jerk off to corporate lobby money and insider trading, playing grab ass with fascists.
Thatās your āprogressā.
And your solution to the problem is literally not vote, which is doing exactly nothing. I have a really hard time seeing how you can expect yourself actively not influencing the system to somehow influence the system.
Itās literally the only way you can can communicate that you will not play the game theyāve rigged. And yes, that has an influence whether you are willing to admit it or not.
Because hereās whatās going to happen if Biden gets his next term; Democrats will take that as a signal that they can be complicit in literal genocide and voters will still vote for them as long as they keep propping up worse options on the otherside. And so they will keep propping up a worse option and acting with complete disregard to their base.
You are not going to āturn things aroundā at some point in the vague future, there is not going to be āslow, generational progressā, thereās going to continue to be a choice between Fascist and Fascist Lite because Fascist Lite understands they do not need to change anything about how theyāre doing things in order to win elections.
Is it a terrible and costly choice to call the Dems on their game of chicken? Yup. But thatās where your politics have put us. Itās degraded our democracy to the point that our only remaining choice to stop the vehicle from going off a cliff is to veer it into a tree.
We couldāve hit the brakes earlier, there were plenty of opportunities and warning signs where the road was going, but people like you kept saying āoh no, pressing the brakes isnāt viable, the corporate media told me that brakes are extremist. Just keep going this next mile and then we can slow down a little after. Just go around this one last bend and itāll turn into a U-turn.ā
Your politics donāt work and the threats and condescension have simply lost the effect, I cannot emphasize this enough; itās not a viable political tactic any longer. If you think itās that important that Biden win then you need to be doing everything you can to influence him to radically change his behavior, not sitting here trying to convince other people to deny what they see with their eyes and hear with their ears and play make-believe with you that ājust a little genocideā is ok for Democrats to support. Enough of the trolley problem bullshit, no one is buying it.
I never said the current system is great: But given the choice between driving off a cliff and veering into a tree, your response seems to be to not tough the wheel and letting whatever happens happen.
You seem to be ignoring the fact that someone will win the upcoming election. By not voting, youāre leaving it up to everyone else to choose.
By all means: Something needs to be done to fix the broken system, but saying that we should have pumped the brakes long ago, and then doing nothing about the most immediate issue - who the next president will be - doesnāt help. We need to ensure that we get some president that doesnāt persecute political opponents if we want to have the option of electing an actually good president in the future.
By all means: Start or join a movement to get better candidates in the future, vote for other candidates in local elections and primaries to lift them up. The fight youāre talking about has to be fought long before the final two candidates are locked into the ballot, and complaining that itās lost wonāt effect who wins in the end.