#BernieOrBust2020

[Rev. Rye]

What's a major issue that Biden has stood for, for a decade or two, that would make you want to vote for him, if the other guy wasn't practically the worst president to ever sit in the oval office? What do we have to vote FOR, in Biden, and not AGAINST, in Trump?

Well, as much as I criticised Biden, here are a few redeeming qualities: Campaigning for the Violence Against Women Act, supporting free college, supporting gun control to plans that, if implemented, would mean more change than the US has had in decades, and championing DACA.

To be fair, damn near all the other Democratic nominees have done most of those things and more (Biden's virtues are mostly those of most every other nominee, but his failings are all him), but that only drives my point further home. Since 2001, the Republicans have been doing shit so horrible that having a Republican candidate be the lesser evil is practically the stuff of alternate universes. Obama's presidency was a wash. Didn't stop me from voting for him three times. Don't regret it.

Ian Hislop once said that in America, "you have the Democrats, who are right-wing, the Republicans, who are very right-wing, and the Tea Party, who are mad." There's a lot of rights Europeans have taken for granted that Americans are still either not ready for or are only just starting to come around to. Societal change moves slowly, but at least the Democrats are just moving slowly and not speeding in the wrong fucking direction. You can't keep that perspective in mind, you can't understand our elections. You can't understand our elections, you can't change them for the better.