
Democratic Primaries
In reply to the discussion: Sanders stays, so his movement can live on by dragging Biden leftward [View all]delisen
(7,110 posts)I am not a Sanders supporter-never have been; but I think Biden has indeed been pro big corporations, such as DuPont (a disgusting and poisonous corporate giant), as well as colleges snd universities which have grown fat on the student business, and the big bank industry which destroyed our economy for a decade.
The fact that we have credit card rates of up to 30% interest and people who cannot bankrupt out of ruinous student debt and even have their social security checks reduced for student loan payments is a Biden responsibility.
Sanders got shot down because of the electability issue of a Democratic Socialist and how the would make us a Democratic Socialist party - a mill stone round the necks of all our candidates for office. We were in danger of losing the House we had just regained after losing it a decade ago when Biden was Vice President.
Joseph Biden is far from an ideal candidate but for the above reason is preferable to Sanders.
Many of us no longer have a margin in our lives and we are soon to face the full force of pandemics for which we are unprepared and climate change which can devolve into a living horror.
I am not willing to stick my head in the sand and go all rah rah for any presidential candidate. Biden however will receive a lot of support as president; Sanders might continue to be at war with the party even if he should get elected-which I doubt he can, and would surround himself with the authoritarian people he has drawn to his campaigns.

primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
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