Here’s two question for the “it HAS to be Biden, DAMMIT!” crowd:

1. If we reject even watered-down social democracy, how can we have any degree of large-scale humane values, any real sense of broad human connection at all? Empathy can exist on a tiny, individual level under “market values”, but it can’t really reach outside of anybody’s door. What good is going to come of what seems to have been a vote to give up on social empathy, on any sense that we owe each other anything or have any real obligation to be there for each other as fellow human beings?
2. If Bernie’s campaign is crushed, how do we keep young people with humane progressive values in political life at all? There’s no possibility of anything they strive for ever being realized under a system in which short term gain for the few matters more than anything else.
3. If young people give up on politics, how will the Democratic Party survive? The country can’t function with TWO parties of greedy youth-hating cynics…TWO parties of perpetual war…TWO parties that treat higher education and healthcare as privileges and not rights. What is there for young people at all if that’s what this primary cycle leaves us with?