So, Ken, have you never been able to recall a word you know, or a name, although it’s on “the tip of your tongue”? I thought not. Have you ever felt the pressure of being on a stage in front of thousands knowing that millions of people are watching at home? I thought not. Biden has a stutter and doesn’t hide that fact, although he has come a long way in overcoming it. When he needs to speak clearly he does and does it impressively. Trump won’t “chew him up” or whatever the phrase you used referring to debating Trump.
Biden lost in the first 2 primaries and didn’t win as many delegates in the 3rd. The first 2 states were Bernie’s to lose and he won both, although not all of the delegates. Nor did he win all the delegates in Nevada, despite the fact he expected to. Young people didn’t turn out in the numbers he’d predicted but those who did turn out to vote chose Biden over Bernie in every primary after that.
Bernie did the responsible, civic-minded thing, dropped his candidacy and fully backed Biden and asked his supporters to do the same. Bernie is still accumulating delegates because that will give him a stronger case to make at the nominating convention- a smart move that Biden fully backs. Didn’t you see Biden thank Bernie for the endorsement and telling him he wanted Bernie’s help in governing? Or did you just not watch that because you couldn’t bear seeing your hero endorsing the clear leader in delegates?
He said that his Revolution was never about him but about change and I suspect any of his supporters who don’t back and vote for Biden were never supporters of the change he wanted but mere anarchists determined to destroy the Democratic Party. Just as Ralph Nadar cost Gore the election in 2000 by using convincing his supporters, “purists”, that there was no measurable difference between the Party's. And guess what came of that? 9/11, the Iraq war and half a million or so deaths of Iraqi civilians and thousands of American military deaths. And don’t forget the tax cuts for the rich and the housing crisis that led to the 2008 Great Recession.
The same “purists” who crashed the 1968 Democratic convention and gave us the neo-liberal Nixon. Biden is not neo-liberal despite claims by those wo want Bernie, and Bernie only rather than a chance at true progress rather than 4 more years of regress in most of the progressive rights gained since FDR.
Bernie is smart enough to see that Trump would put an end to liberal progress by continuing to appoint ultra-right Federal Judges to lifetime terms- and most are not only unqualified but will be around for the next generation or two. The Supreme Court will become a 7–2 majority of right wing Judges and SCOTUS has the final say, whether you like it or not. So much for the Revolution.
Bernie’s apparently far smarter than many who claim to support his vision and that’s a sad thing to see for anyone who truly supports his vision of change. It borders on anarchy to ignore his reasoned advice but you’re not an anarchist, right? Which means you’ll take Bernie’s advice, vote for Biden and continue the Revolution IF you truly believe in creating a better government and society.
