OK, so I’m up on DailyKos reading all of this anti-Biden crap, anti-Bernie crap, basically taking the primary down into the gutter. And my instinct is to drop my usual analytical approach and let you all have it.
I don’t care if you’re in love with your candidate and you’ve been waiting decades, days or whatever for the “revolution.“ And I further do not care if your favorite candidate didn’t make it (mine didn’t). None of this matters now. None of it. It’s time for the left — old, young, moderate, progressive to get over itself.
Screaming, shouting old revolutionary…. Verbally clumsy old defender of the old way…. It doesn’t matter. Voting out Trump is a matter of life and death. In other words… STFU.
Understand this:
Donald Trump — mafia don in chief — has taken betraying the country and the American people to a place so horrendous and ugly that it’s hard to imagine even him doing it.
Faced with a national calamity that could kill hundreds? thousands? tens of thousands? And what did he do? Did he rise to the occasion? Learn from his mistakes?
Nope: Bad enough he had gutted the CDC and completely gutted the epidemic/pandemic protection group that President Obama put together.
Bad enough he oversaw an incompetent first response that allowed the virus to spread even further (particularly on the west coast). But Donald Trump… the leader of several hundred million people whom he is sworn to protect… intentionally, criminally, politically told his people to stand down. Don’t create tests for COVID-19. “Keep the numbers down.” Win the election at all costs. Your cost. Your loved ones. Your friends. The cost of human lives.
Call this sociopathic, psychotic, it doesn’t really matter. The pathological lying isn’t good enough for you? The constant bigotry? The lack of belief in the Rule of Law not enough? Russia? Ukraine? Emoluments?
Does this do it for you? This is criminal activity tantamount to murder. Trump didn’t create the virus, but his behavior, his intentional flouting of a smart, scientific response to this outbreak in favor of his personal political fortunes — that is going to cause sickness and death. And he did it on purpose.
To those of you who say there’s no difference between centrist Democrats and Republicans. For any of you who won’t be happy unless you burn it all down. And to all the snowflakes who have to have their candidate and nobody else: Guess what? There’s a huge difference between Donald Trump and anybody else. Donald is now actually killing us. He has to go in November. Above all else.
Peace out.