Thanks for sharing your opinion, Jeff. It's illuminating but I don't fully agree with all of it:

"I’m a leftist who deeply loathes Biden and his policies; I see him and the neoliberalism he embodies as just a smidge preferable to the outright fascism of Donald Trump". Biden isn't a 'neoliberal', Trump and the current Republican leadership, Republican politicians as a whole, are neoliberal.

"Neoliberalism or neo-liberalism is the 20th-century resurgence of 19th-century ideas associated with laissez-faire economic liberalism and free market capitalism, and is generally associated with policies of economic liberalization, including privatization, deregulation, globalization, free trade, austerity, and reductions in government spending in order to increase the role of the private sector in the economy and society. Neoliberalism constituted a paradigm shift away from the post-war Keynesian consensus that had lasted from 1945 to 1980."

Biden's policy proposals are the polar opposite.

Also, "I don’t think a Biden presidency would bring about anything other than slightly less atrocious policies than a second-term Trump would..."

Do you really believe that Biden is only slightly better than having an autocrat in power? You don't seem to have paid a lot of attention to what's being going on in Trump's America and how he, with the pre-approval of any action he takes is, step by step making this nation an authoritarian state.

I'm glad you're voting for Biden even though you'd rather not. To not do so would mean you don't really care about the goals of the Left that you purport to support. Like hi or not, Biden's the only one who can stop Trump and his minions from making this nation into a total train wreck that it may well be too late to salvage after our autocrat-in-chief (for life, along with his children to take his place) completes his & Putin's destruction of the climate and pillaging of the natural resources we have left.

Al the best, Blaine