Those people are not just disappointed; they are enraged by what they perceive the party has done and will keep doing. From now until November, the must-vote-for-Biden folks are going to have to convince enough of those disillusioned people in enough swing states not to stay home or vote for a third party that really does support their positions on important issues, but to go out and vote for Joe Biden to save us from the fascist apocalypse. In trying to fulfill that moral imperative, will they really "lose no opportunity publicly" to say: "Joe Biden is indeed an imperialist, functionary of finance capital, sexual harasser, compulsive liar, and cognitively challenged." Or will they take the tack some on the VBNMW "left" took about Obama, telling the "rancid sector of the far left" to "please stop your grousing!" and shut up and vote for Biden?
We all know the answer. It was given by those old SDS-ers themselves. The closest they could come to a criticism of Biden was their remark that the DSA leadership "see[s him] as a representative of Wall Street capital" (which reads a lot more like a criticism of the DSA leadership) and their grudging reference to him as an anodyne "capitalist democrat". It's a discourse that disappears Joe Biden, and is all about Trump.
As it has to be. You can't really "work hard to elect" Joe Biden and avoid unironically endorsing him. Once you decide you have to choose sides in the two-horse American electoral race, because "the very existence of American democracy is in jeopardy", you cannot continually acknowledge to enraged Bernie supporters and other leftists what a dog your nag is. If you do, you will not get enough of their votes, you will lose, and American democracy--whatever that is, "You know, the thing"--will come crashing down. To prevent that from happening, your fellow travelers on the Biden bus will discipline you. They will browbeat you to fall back to focusing on the apocalyptic evil of the Republican and to hide or avoid the truth about your terrible-in-his-own-right Democrat, because the truth hurts your cause.
Get Off Of My Cloud
If that's your position, so be it. I won't accuse you of some moral failing for voting for Biden.
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