Every time you imply that a person who disagrees with you is either your intellectual inferior or that you are entitled to lecture that person on the subject you are discussing with that person-every time you post in that tone of entitlement and “above-ness”-for want of a better word, you personally attack everyone you are debating. I’ve seen you do this in thread after thread after thread and it’s always inappropriate. As human beings we all have an obligation treat each other with a baseline level of respect and you fail in that obligation. And you simply make yourself look like the stereotype of a wealthy white male elitist every time you take that tone with people-especially when you decide that, as a man, you are entitled to tell a woman what feminism is and isn’t. The fact is, if the Dems do nominate Biden, we will be giving the GOP attack ad after attack ad to use against the ticket-we will be giving Trump a chance to win votes with women he wouldn’t have with anybody else we could nominate.
And here’s the thing-I know you’re taking this as an argument to nominate Bernie instead, which it isn’t-Bernie’s not going to be the nominee and he is simply keeping his campaign going to talk about the issues-it would only lose us votes if the discussion was now reduced to “nothing to the left of Biden’s ideas will even be considered from now on”, and people who want to vote for Sanders should get the chance to do so and to elect Sanders delegates in every state, out of simple small-”d” democratic fairness-but it’s actually about the idea that somebody else might be worth considering.
My own suggestion, as a compromise “draft” candidate, would be Sen. Tammy Baldwin(D-Wisc). She’s between Biden and Sanders on the issues, has stayed neutral in the primaries, would make the “firewall states” a lock if nominated(Biden can’t come close to guaranteeing that), and would both be generally acceptable to Biden supporters as someone who does not self-identify as a “socialist”(not that there was any good reason for the party establishment to ever make that a dirty word like they did) and Sanders supporters as a person who cares about what they support, most of which is popular with the electorate as well. She has no baggage and no skeletons. Why not consider her as a possibility if it looks like Joe’s not up to it by summer?
