Flash 2: The Democratic Party is not a party of, or for, the working class. It strains--and only intermittently--to attract working-class support, precisely because its programs and politicians do not advance working-class interests against those of corporate and finance capital in some way that is significantly, let alone catastrophically, different from the Republican party. Despite any conjuring of the ghost of FDR-past, the Democratic party is, as I mentioned above and as increasing numbers of Americans recognize, an enemy of the working class.
So, The Democratic party is not a party of the left. The idea that there's any natural connection between the left and the Democratic party, or that someone on the left is a Democrat or should be expected to vote for a Democrat, by default is--well, a figment of the MSNBC bubble universe.
In any given circumstance, a leftist decides whom to vote for, or whether to participate at all in a corrupt capitalist electoral system, not based on their assumed Democratic identity, but based on an analysis of whether and how it will advance working-class power. A leftist does not betray their position by not voting for or supporting a Democrat; they betray their position by voting for or supporting an enemy of the working class.
Did I mention Joe Biden?
As a leftist, I'm pleased to count myself among the majority of voters who are equally independent from, and tendentiously dismissive of, both the Democratic and Republican parties, and owe no allegiance or vote to either. And when you tell me Biden will lose if he gets fewer votes than Trump, my response, too, is: "Thanks for spelling that out for me. What else you got?"
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