in YOUR primary
...while it was still possible to prevent the unfolding of the worst scenarios of the climate crisis
…while it was still possible to combate the worst excesses of economic and social injustice
...while it was still possible to prevent an authoritarian executive branch from ursurping Putin-like or Erdogan-style power and stacking the courts full-scale with right-wing ideologues for decades to come…
...and your answer would be:
“During primary season our heart was for Warren and/or Sanders. But most of us were afraid, very afraid of the President being reelected. Our progressive candidates seemed not electable... because… well… because the media said so. Therefore we voted in our primary for that old centrist establishment guy who seemed most electable back then, who seemed to be the safest choice.
Little did we know that he wouldn’t excite anyone, and that he would lose in a very similar way, nearly the exact same states, as our establishment female candidate four years before.”
And if your grandchildren dare to ask: “But Grandma/Grandpa, didn’t you learn anything from 2004, where your party already nominated the presumably safest establishment candidate, because he seemed the most electable choice?”
And your only answer would be: “We… actually we didn’t have that in our minds… we simply felt that the party leadership thought that the nomination was his turn”.
So on this Super Tuesday in 2020, ask yourself this one question:
“Will I be able to look in the mirror after I will have cast my vote today?”
Therefore my recommendation:
If your intention a few days ago was to vote for Sanders today, then vote for him!
If your intention a few days ago was to vote for Warren today, then vote for her!
If your intention a few days ago was to vote for Biden today, then vote for him!
If your intention a few days ago was to vote for Bloomberg today, then — well then all hope seems lost for you, and you probably are not a Democrat anyway.
If your intention a few days ago was to vote for Buttigieg or Klobuchar, then think again who might be able to attract independent voters best, and choose wisely.
But if you supported Sanders or Warren all the way up to now, and now seriously consider switching to Biden in the last moment:
1) Think about it if you would be able to look into your own eyes in your mirror with a clean conscience
2) Think about answering your (grand-)childrens questions why you might have squandered a chance of a generation, if not a lifetime
3) And please never ever complain if Biden fails to unseat Trump in November, after Hillary failed to defeat Trump, and after Kerry failed to defeat G.W. Bush.