BidenHarris2020: Open thread
What do you all think?
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My belief, as I discussed on my SiriusXM show today, is that the party voted in primaries and decided on Joe Biden. That may not have satisfied everyone, but he is the candidate and we must defeat Donald Trump. Our future, and the lives of future generations, are on the line. There is no debating this. We must defeat Trump.
Powerfully, a lot of the Democratic Party came together, with Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren working with Biden on issues and advising him. Ultimately the most important thing is to defeat Donald Trump. But if they can make the new administration as progressive as possible, all the better.
Biden has chosen Kamala Harris as his vice presidential running mate. Again, some will dislike her positions in the past or whatever — as I heard from a few callers on the show today (while many others were very excited). But among the choices before Biden, she electrifies the ticket the most, gives it energy it needs, and makes history. And like others, she’s shown she’s both committed to defeating Trump and moving forward with where the Democratic Party base has moved — where the country has moved — and where it is going.
Let’s do this!
But what do you all think?
Michelangelo....like you...I am 100% behind Biden & Harris, any of the women would have satisfied me. I hope that all Democrats stay united & not “nit pick” at Harris.
We are at an historic transition time in history. Whoever Biden picked would be the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee in 2024.
Our country has been challenged by a White Supremacist as we are becoming a White-minority society. The White Supremacists are Hell-bent on maintaining White minority rule.
What Biden-Harris represents is a peaceful transition to that more egalitarian society that the white supremacists are resisting. Biden is an old white man; Harris is a younger African American and South Asian American woman. If successful, that old white man will eventually pass the torch to a new generation of Americans.
If we can manage to overcome all of the obstacles to a “free and fair” election that the white supremacists are putting in our way, we can elect a man who knows that the future lies with the inheritors of the American promise: the children of immigrants who have succeeded at achieving the ever more elusive American Dream.
Harris selection repudiates all of Trump’s rhetoric and policies targeting immigrants, women, minorities and PoC. For choosing her, Biden has already made history. Harris’ ascendency is a victory for all immigrants and their children. She and her sister are first-generation Americans, and she is now poised to become our first female and second PoC president.
Now, we must brave the pandemic and vote in person if physically able to, in order to defeat their sabotage of our great Postal Service. History demands that we reject White-minority rule. Now, and forever.