A few days ago my wife put this on the Local Resist Facebook page:
At this point this should be fairly non-controversial on our side of the great divide. I’m no fan of Joe Biden or Seth Moulton, and their ilk, but I’ll vote for any one of them if it’s the only way to get rid of Trump. Rather predictably the post drew a response from a (probable) Bernie dead ender. I won’t reproduce the unhinged rant here, but boiled down to its essence, it came down to this: rather than vote for someone who is not perfect, I will not vote at all. Another way to state it is that rather than vote for someone who is not perfect, I will cast a shadow vote for Trump.
I say he was a “probable” Bernie dead-ender not because he so identified, but because folks with this attitude tend to reside in that camp, though some are ready to de-camp to the Greens and waste their vote there.
These folks are doing us all a disservice, and they’re doing Bernie a disservice in particular. He wasn’t a Bernie dead-ender in 2016, as he campaigned for Hillary, and he isn’t now, as he’s taken the Indivisible Pledge (he was first) along with most of the other candidates. The likelihood is that they’ll all sign on in the near future. You can take the pledge too.
We really do need to pull together when the time comes. A health primary debate is more than worthwhile, as I believe that it will lead to a realization on the part of the Democratic establishment that it can no longer do business as usual. Whatever the outcome, we need to pull together.
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