My biggest opposition to Biden comes from many factors, but the main ones are:
- Trump could literally run to his left on trade and some parts of foreign policy
If
Trump of all people could run to your left you know it's a problem. Biden thought NAFTA was a
good thing, and still does. He would continue to go for trade deals that would devastate the working class. Additionally, there are places in foreign policy, for example Venezuela, where I don't doubt Biden would have gone even harder in the regime change effort (which is why I'm honestly so confused as to why Tulsi endorsed him recently). As a reminder he was one of the key players in whipping votes for Iraq and when questioned about it he literally just... lies? Trump foreign policy is not good, believe me. But I honestly fear Biden's foreign policy would be just as bad or worse.
- Trump at least pretended to want to "Drain the swamp." Biden doesn't even pretend to care. The swamp is his BFF.
Politics operating as a "one party" system essentially due to the donor class controlling both repubs and dems, administrations full of Goldman Sachs and billionaires and their allies, the interests of a few quashing the interests of the people... This is one of the biggest problems in politics and one of the reasons why nothing seems to change and if it does it's to bail out or benefit those on top and screws over the American people. Biden basically seems nothing wrong with this. "Nothing will fundamentally change." He rubs elbows with the people who are the problem. Seeing those insurance stocks rise up after Biden won was truly disheartening. Time are terrible now, and they have been for people, especially young people, for years. The Biden administration would do nothing to substantially change that.
which kinda bleeds into my next point, of...
- Biden represents no change/incremental change. That is not what we need right now.
People NEED big change. This is a time of crisis. The fact that he would literally veto M4A if it somehow got onto his desk... The fact that his plan doesn't address climate change as the disaster that it is, the fact that his worldview informs him politics to the point that he thinks young people need to just suck it up and deal with things rather than recognize and try to change these systemic problems... It's sickening
- Biden represents everything wrong with the democratic party and how out of touch they are with the needs of the future of this country and how young people specifically, who feel disillusioned, disenfranchised, left behind, broken... are simply left for dead because of the rigidity of the system/establishment/late capitalism/whatever you want to call it.
And on top of all that (which, there's more in his record for example that's terrible but those are the main things for me)... the guy is a huge liar (which like, politician I guess). There's literally tons of contradicting evidence especially when he addresses his terrible record or makes up whack stories trying to paint himself as a hero or when he takes credit for things he didn't do or positions he didn't have. He's entitled, another "it's my turn" candidate. Literally barely campaigned and went off of grabbing rich people's money, saying "obama" and "black people like me" and saying the hopes and ideals for the future that progressives champion are too unrealistic. He's going senile or at the very least becoming incomprehensible compared to a few days ago. I would be lying if part of my dislike toward Biden was his character, which is ironic since he's running on character vs Trump lol yet has such a shitty character.
In short, Biden is America's hawkish and destructive foreign policy. Biden is corruption and proliferation of the swamp. Biden is the donor's, billionaire's, corporatation's friend. Biden is destructive trade deals. Biden is not taking climate change seriously. Biden is business as usual despite the changes needed. Biden is the symbol of the moral bankruptcy of the democratic party. Biden is suck it up and deal with the shitty world. Biden is, simply put, bad.
And I get it, Trump is terrible. But I can't bring myself to validate Biden and what he represents in continuing the democratic party's disregard toward the working class, developing nations abroad, and the future of this planet all for the favor of wealthy elites and donors. I don't want the conditions which rose to Trump in the first place to continue. I don't want the conditions that keep the working class and young people hopeless in their misery to continue. I don't want myself and thousands of others to be left behind again simply because the alternative could be worse.
I will repudiate Biden and what he represents just as I repudiate Trump and what he represents.
If that makes me deplorable or a stupid person or naive or whatever, then fine continue thinking that way idc. Think about that of all the other working class people who have expressed similar sentiments and in 2016 about Hillary too. Think that about the other latinos who realize the foreign policy implications of the increasingly hawkish democratic party players like Biden and Hillary. Perhaps the party elites should have more power in picking the nominee then, since all these stupid uneducated voters like me after all don't wanna unite by abandoning everything they care for to take down Drumph tm.
I also understand the importance of voting in progressives elsewhere but when people like Jessica Cisneros get beaten by Cuellar (Trump's fave democrat), by the same voters who choose status quo Biden on the grounds of him beating Trump it really highlights how rotten everything is and how damaging the status quo candidate is in getting real change.
The last thing I'll say is that Trump is not an aberration, he's a symptom and perpetuator of this hostile late capitalist system that spits on the working class of this country. Biden is also a symptom and perpetuator. I have no interest in letting another person in like that.
Also
fanyfan I'm responding to your post in general but I don't mean to be combative, I'm kinda ranting a little too especially at the end. Other people have been really annoying and I've even gotten the Russia Asset allegation already which lol