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Originally Posted by rubecube
Again, if you're a Biden supporter, why does it matter if you're so sure you can get the moderate Republicans on board?
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I feel like people drove by this to give you the benefit of the doubt the first time, but are you actually suggesting that this is a reasonable argument? I don't even know what to say. The goal is to get as many votes as possible. Obviously Biden will position himself to try to secure people who aren't left wing, be they independents, swing voters, moderate republicans or people who generally don't pay much attention to politics until shortly before a presidential election. But the more people from the left side of the democratic base he can get to show up on election day, the better... obviously. Some of these states will be close, even in the best case scenario, so trying to get as many people as possible in as many plausible "might vote for the Democratic candidate" categories as possible is the right way to go. Broad appeal that's just deep enough to get you to go pull a lever, so to speak.
I like Bernie. I would have been fine with him getting the nomination had the primaries played out that way, as I think he could potentially have managed his own path to victory. He was the only other candidate that seemed plausible to me in a general election (aside from Yang, who never had a realistic chance at winning the nomination). However, as the process has gone on, it has become clear that his ceiling is a bit lower than hoped, and that Biden's path to the Presidency is somewhat safer.
In any case, Biden won the thing fair and square, unlike Clinton, so Bernie's supporters need to cut out the tantrums, do what they can to make the party platform as palatable to them as possible, and go and vote for the only guy who can end this nightmare of an administration.