And don't forget, domestic issues only! To browbeat leftists, invoking the specter of Hitler, that it's "our high moral and political responsibility" to vote for the Democrat, we have to put aside both Joe Biden's war-mongering history and disposition, and the now-banal observation of such analysts as Ajamu Baraka, Glenn Greenwald, and Robert Parry, that the Democratic Party, which impeached Trump for not sending deadly weapons quickly enough to actual Hitlerite fascists (whom Biden helped bring to power!), is "now the aggressive war party". That's excluded from the calculus of our high moral responsibility.
Bur for those leftists who have a different conception of who rules the polity--that it's actually not a party that rules but a class that both parties serve--the lack of catastrophic difference between the two parties' actual programs is quite understandable, even evident. Real catastrophe has and will come from what Republicans and Democrats together, ignoring anything that they said during the election, continue to do to increase the power of capital, extend U.S. imperial power, and perpetuate the inherently unjust domestic and international system. Real prevention and resistance will have to come from outside the Democratic-Republican family feud.
Isn't it ironic?
Let's also consider how honest the I-know-how-bad-he-is pundits can be about their promise never to let up on, "to lose no opportunity" to make their thoroughgoing left critique of the war criminal and Wall Street tool they are insisting we must vote for. Pundits like the old SDS-ers who wrote the appeal in The Nation, and who also "think 'endorsing' [their scare quotes] Joe Biden is a step too far", and just want to "work hard to elect him".
After all, those who are not-really "endorsing" but only demanding votes for Biden, know very well they are addressing a lot of passionately committed people who are pissed off at Joe Biden's sudden ascension to the nomination and Bernie Sanders literally forfeiting his campaign with half the country left to vote--people who: a) do really support the basic social-democratic platform of single-payer, medical and student-debt forgiveness, free public colleges, strengthening not cutting Social Security, etc., that the Sanders campaign purportedly stood for; b) do really support an end to imperialist war, including the war (and sanctions) on Syria and Iran and Venezuela, and an end to U.S. support for Zionist colonialism, etc.; c) do really support a fair, transparent, unbiased election process, and are extremely suspicious of one that results in wins contrary to exit polls for a candidate who did not have a single office or canvasser in state; d) do really support as fair a hearing for a woman accusing a Democratic senator of sexual abuse as one accusing a Republican judge; e) are really repelled by the multiple incidents of "hugs, kisses and touching [of women and children] that women ... said made them uncomfortable"; f) are really repelled by a politician who constantly lies about his involvement with the civil-rights movement and its iconic figures; g) are really worried about a man who struggles to make coherent sentences and mistakes his wife for his sister, etc., etc.
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