Oh … He’s Not Progressive Enough For You?

I posted this response a few days ago to someone on Facebook who said they would never vote for Biden, and that Trump winning a second term as POTUS would “teach people” a lesson. I believe that’s an amazingly idiotic and insensitive response to your candidate not winning the Democratic nomination. What follows is my response:

Which people? The kids still in concentration camps?

The women who will lose all control over reproductive rights once Trump replaces RBG with another conservative ideologue?

I’m a Marxist. Bernie’s policies are more conservative than those I’ve been advocating for for 50 years.

This is my 14th general election and I’ve never had a candidate who really represented me.

But, as a Marxist my philosophy—dialectical materialism—is pragmatic, based on the reality we face, not how I would like things to be.

Apparently, you have nothing to lose if this country goes full-blown fascist, and you couldn’t care less about the millions who will needlessly suffer when that happens.

Biden is hardly an ideal candidate. Neither was Obama, Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter, or Hubert fucking Humphrey, but any one of them were head and shoulders above Trump.

I’ll vote for Biden.

I don’t expect to see this country become a socialist economy in my lifetime (which, at almost 73, is coming to a close sooner than later) but I don’t measure progress by how correct I am.

I measure it by how things change for the better, for those who need it most.

I understand your disappointment, but I have no patience for anyone’s privileged petulance.

Feel free to unfriend me.