I took you as a centrist, or at least I think you were the person that made a centrist argument on why biden was a better pick than bernie...and I agreed with that argument, whomever made it. The farther left people don't have anywhere to go and the biggest gains were to be made in the burbs.
Big party with diverse views. It really is "hey...do we exist on the same planet and view stuff like math as existing? ...well cool, we can sort our differences out later once the demon sperm people are gone." Given that wide net cast for voters, I do think the criticism of people criticizing biden (for normal real stuff...not Brandon gas price criticism) is off-base.
Gotta kick out the demon sperm people, then we can have grown up conversations about actual issues. Don't alienate people.
I'll test my assumptions every now and then when I feel the need. The picture that xtso posted in his complaint about Gov Brown showed Brown with a trans woman and I pressed the question to him to find out if that was what was bothering him. It was a dick move on my part. But I wanted to know what kind of person I was talking to. Misunderstandings and testy replies directed at me happen sometimes. Just about everybody here has gone through it. I've seen people who posted here for a long time all of a sudden flip their wig and become almost a different person. So it's not as if I'm being paranoid without cause.
So, I was testing to check my assumptions. I get that this can be uncomfortable to others. As soon as I saw that I had jumped to the wrong conclusion, I admitted it and I hoped I didn't hurt anybody's feelings. Then again this is a political forum. Discussion regarding difficult topics are part of the zeitgeist.
Regarding my political bent, I absolutely support many of the issues that Bernie promoted. Active and healthy stewardship of the environment, universal access to healthcare in the US, paying people living wages, free education for those who earn it through academic excellence, more progressive tax system that takes more from the wealthy than it does now. To those who lack the ability or don't want or need a degree, we need an economy that offers good jobs and choices for them too. The problem I saw with Bernie was that he had no political skill and didn't even work hard. He had charisma but his work was mostly symbolic. The "Medicare for All" bill was an empty promise. To people who call themselves "Progressives", I ask -- how many difficult elections did they win? When "Progressives" start winning in contested districts, then I'll take them more seriously. What Bernie in 2020 represented to me was four more years of Trump. Biden is socially to the right of me and he wasn't my first choice but he was the only one in the field of Democratic primary challengers who could beat Trump. Elections are about choices, not simply what I want.
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