If you're sad about it beyond just a "reminder of how bad things are," then that means one or both of two things.

  1. You must have harbored some kind of small belief that US electoralism could facilitate anyone other than a ghoul at the level of the presidency. Even if you think electoralism is good and cool, this isn't even electoralism. This is a VP pick. No mass movement is going to decide that. Biden (or more accurately whatever ghouls around him) decide that. This brings us to 2.

  2. You must have harbored some notion that Biden could be swayed into adopting your positions. This one is vastly more stupid that #1. Stop believing in these people or that pressure works on them. Biden is bad, he will always be bad.

Keep your eyes on the fucking prize. Both the doomer shit and the weird "this is reminding me how bad things are..." shit aren't helpful. We knew this was happening. Did we all just forget Biden is bad? Like come the fuck on.

Yeah, Biden's a capitalist ghoul who benefits capitalists and was selected by capitalists. He's not for you. Whoever he picks would never be for you. Don't delude yourself. The fight is as much with him as it is with all the other capitalist ghouls.

Tl;dr: stop trying to pressure these people to be what you want them to be and actively fight them.

  • darkcalling [comrade/them, she/her]
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    4 years ago

    It's definitely up there with the most amusing outcomes given BLM and all.

    Anyone who still thinks they can make the Democratic party get on Bernie's platform and page is delusional. Anyone who still thinks they can get it to anything left of Bernie is even more delusional. Anyone who thinks any "compromises" or "bold pledges" that come out of Biden's mouth are worth anything more than a piece of rat shit found in a gutter are delusional.

    Entryism into the Democratic party has been foiled for a century now. They will defeat you each time, a handful of house seats are not going to change that and will only serve to constrain the positions your candidates can take out of fear of the party.

    Even if you are a soc-dem your best way to get results is not voting Democratic, it is helping build an insurgent communist party that gets enough votes and power that it scares the Democrats into compromising down to your positions.