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in reply to @Snao's post:
If there's one constant in American politics, it's that anti-war protesters and voters are ignored. We don't even talk about them anymore re: the Iraq War; it's just how Americans were in favor of invading Iraq because aluminum tubes
Yeah, it's true. At the same time I have no idea how they expect to win by suppressing protests. My cynical view of this is that they need to fully allow and embrace the protests in public, to at least introduce more plausible deniability for the delusion that "we can push Biden left".
Because people do want to believe that very badly. It is extremely painful to typical liberals that Biden is actually bad, which he is, but he doesn't even want to pretend to win.
I dunno, I think about how the DNC basically installed Biden as the candidate precisely because he wasn't left-leaning.
My take on this is that Trump and Sanders were symptoms of the same thing, regular people being fed up with establishment politicians because of how hilariously obvious it's become that they aren't responsive to the needs and interests of the public. The Democrats kind of put this in a holding pattern by getting Biden elected, but the problem was always going to come back, and now that he's actually been president it's unambiguous that he's a centrist establishment hack, exactly the kind of candidate almost nobody wants.
Yeah prettttty much.
The only thing I'd add to this is the holding pattern meant maintaining, instead of reversing, the changes Trump made before Biden's election.
Yeah, it's kind of shocking how little he rolled back. Obama didn't close Guantanamo, either. n.n;
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