If you have what Joe McCarthy called "fellow travelers" as your Facebook friends, you've heard this narrative: "Omigod we all have to vote for Joe Biden because Donald Trump is a FASCIST!" I wrote a diary about this topic back in April: "The Trump-As-Dictator narrative." In this old diary, I wrote:
Friendship in a COVID World
A headline on my Facebook feed says:
White House campaign advice to jobless: "Find something new"
-- is using Federal Customs agents to drag people off the streets of Portland and take them to unknown locations.
Forbes:
USA Today:
So, let's see, Donald Trump is threatening to withhold funding for schools if they don't reopen in September. Why? Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti explore:
Folks, this is more or less a sequel to my previous diary, The Failure of Political Imagination -- if you haven't read it, you should read it now, and then come back to this diary. As such, this diary will be short and sweet, because what I really want is for more people to read my previous diary.
Let me get straight to the point.
Before Biden is crowned, we MUST ask the following questions.
Although I will vote for Biden (holding my nose,) I do not think he has a chance to win. The last several weeks have made it very clear that the Democrats must win the White House, as well as the Senate. I am certain that Biden won’t get us there.
What set me off was this headline that I saw on a Facebook profile, "Bernie Sanders Asks Supporters to Donate to Democratic Party, 'Show Commitment to Party Unity.'" I'm against Democratic Party unity, because the Democrats at the top of the party hierarchy are a bunch of corporate commodities masquerading as politicians.
Thursday we could go to the Common Dreams website and read this piece by Norman Solomon:
Some Progressives Are in Denial About Trump's Fascist Momentum
Some say preventing the re-election of Trump isn't important. That amounts to ignoring political reality, an evasion with potentially vast consequences.
Lesser of Two Evils II
“If they’d wanted to win, they wouldn’t have run Hillary Clinton.”
--my mom, 2016
