>People are going to tell us to give up. Don't give them
>anything. Any durable left movement in the United States is
>about recognizing the material demands of poor and working
>American people, and putting those aside because you're scared
>of Donald Trump or of being yelled at by people who are scared
>of Donald Trump isn't going to get anything useful done. When
>Biden talks about his long track record of getting things done
>in DC, he's talking about getting things done for credit card
>companies, student loan providers, pharmaceutical companies,
>and NatSec ghouls. If that isn't the world you want to live
>in, don't concede to live in a bad one because there's an
>election in eight months. Make him work for it. The same
>coalition building that everybody demanded of Sanders - now
>demand it of Biden. Or force him to say "I can win without the
>left." They're going to blame us when he loses anyhow, so you
>may as well extract something from it.

At least his speech writers seem to be incorporating some of the left's platform, because since when has Joe worked for unions, the lower class, and 'the existential crisis of the environment', or against corruption and war-profiteering?


>One thing to be happy about is Bloomberg flaming out. Having
>the truism "you can't buy a presidential election" be tested
>to that extreme degree is sort of gratifying, and I don't
>spend a lot of time being proud of American voters but
>rejecting Bloomberg is one of those moments.

This was a bright spot