Defeat fascism, vote your democracy, USA
The threat posed by the wrecker and his magats is grave. To be able
to say, "I opposed them", is not enough — we need to defeat them. I
want to contribute to defeating them, to saving my country from
repressive rule of lies. I hope you do, too.
Biden is not my ideal president. I rate him as
about 1/3 progressive, and I criticize his
failure to
pressure Israel to cease its war crimes
in Gaza.
If I had my druthers, I would help elect an honest, progressive president, such as Bernie
Sanders. But there is no opportunity to help elect him this year. A write-in vote, for him or
anyone else, would be a mere protest. We need to defeat fascism.
What about third parties? The Green Party has become too extreme for me. As for the
self-styled "Libertarians", that name is misleading because their priority is not civil
liberties but empowering the wealthy by eliminating the regulations and government spending
that help and protect the non-rich. They call those things "socialism". I call them
"Antisocialists", and I don't support them.
As for RFK Jr, he is an anti-vaxxer, and I have no wish to support pseudosience. I expect I
would choose him over the corrupter if those two were the only choices, but that is not the
situation this year.
The specific details of those actual candidates are secondary matters because none of them has
a chance of winning. Voting for any of them would be a mere protest, not a way to defeat
fascism.
There are still primaries to be held this year. I urge you to vote for progressive Democrats
in primaries if you have the opportunity, and vote for Democrats in November.
I myself will be happy to vote, once again, for Representative Ayanna Pressley — but
reelecting one progressive representative will not by itself be sufficient to preserve
democracy in the US.