Betteridge's Law?
As the challenges facing the nation mount and fatigued base voters show low enthusiasm, Democrats in union meetings, the back rooms of Capitol Hill and party gatherings from coast to coast are quietly worrying about Mr. Biden’s leadership, his age and his capability to take the fight to former President Donald J. Trump a second time.
Interviews with nearly 50 Democratic officials, from county leaders to members of Congress, as well as with disappointed voters who backed Mr. Biden in 2020, reveal a party alarmed about Republicans’ rising strength and extraordinarily pessimistic about an immediate path forward.
“To say our country was on the right track would flagrantly depart from reality,” said Steve Simeonidis, a Democratic National Committee member from Miami. Mr. Biden, he said, “should announce his intent not to seek re-election in ’24 right after the midterms.”
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Still, public polling shows that Mr. Biden is at a low point in his popularity among Democratic voters. A survey last month from The Associated Press found Mr. Biden’s approval among his fellow party members at 73 percent — the lowest point in his presidency, and nine points lower than at any point in 2021. There is little recent public polling asking if Democrats want Mr. Biden to seek a second term, but in January just 48 percent of Democrats wanted him to run again, according to The A.P.’s polling.
Democrats and regret, name a better pair:
Elizabeth Guzmán, a member of the Virginia House of Delegates, said Democrats in her caucus regret not passing a sweeping abortion rights law last year before they lost control of the state House and governor’s mansion to Republicans. “We wanted to codify Roe vs. Wade, and look what happened,” she said.
She conveniently forgets that they didn't pass the law because their caucus went on vacation.
Shelia Huggins, a lawyer from Durham, N.C., who is a member of the Democratic National Committee, put it more bluntly. “Democrats need fresh, bold leadership for the 2024 presidential race,” she said. “That can’t be Biden.”
It’s not about “like” or moralism. It’s a question of strategy and pragmatism. Neither bourgeois reactionary parties will be able to handle the oncoming crisis of capitalism. It is the role of the advanced of the working class to create a separate, proletarian party that is not tied to the dying rightwing failing Democrats, but opposed to it and alternative to it. We must be ready for the crisis and with active solutions and ties to the working class and labor movement.
Ditch the Democrats there is no solution there, no harm reduction. Going off the edge of the cliff at 40 mph instead of 80 mph doesn’t help anything. Grab hold of the wheel and stop trying to confuse the situation by saying “no don’t grab the wheel the good driver who wants to go 40 mph finally has it!!”
Do you want to drive off the cliff immediately, while the left is small and unorganized? Or later, after we've had more time to grow?
You don’t get to control that, and if buying a bit of extra time entails selling your soul to the bourgeois and being forever entwined in their systems of power, then you do you bruh by I’m no lib reformist
You aren’t going to twist me into being Kautsky dude. Give it up. Why are you even on this site if you are effectively an anarcho-bidenist and a Liz Warren DNC harm reductionist liberal?
:jesse-wtf:
It's simple: drive off the cliff now, or drive off it later. What is so ridiculous about choosing "later" because growing the left in the interim will give us a better shot at success?
No those aren’t the only two options, and your fixation on them and refusal to accept other alternatives is the problem
The status quo is driving off the cliff later, handing Republicans the keys is driving off now. You said as much yourself. What other realistic option is there? A split Democratic Party is not going to produce a meaningful socialist party immediately.
The alternative is class struggle and forming a Marxist party, agitating to grow it and form a line to prepare for collapse