Biden will still be sliding backwards. Harris will still be sliding backwards. The insane next Republican successor to either will be sliding backwards. The inertia is not behind us, it is behind rampant privatization, colonialism, border patrol, the police state, that is where the inertia is. If that inertia continues to be met with absolutely nothing, there will not even be a return to “normalcy” only a rapid descent into catastrophe.
So, once again, you’re saying there is no solution to our problems that can exist through liberal electoralism? Honestly a very revolutionary statement to make. I don’t know if I fully agree with just giving up on electoralism altogether.
No, they actually will not be sliding backwards if Biden/Harris wins. Biden and Harris are not going to reduce Obamacare, they are going to expand it. That means we save more lives and give more people access to treatment they would not have access to otherwise. Currently, we have GOP states like Texas, that refused the medicaid expansion, this means they very well would refuse the medicare expansion as well since the Supreme court ruled they could not force the states to accept the medicaid expansion. This means we currently need to expand Obamacare to cover the loopholes created by the GOP attacks on Obamacare expansion for healthcare to the poor. This can only happen in we have a Democrat house, Senate and White House. Biden is against private prisons, not for it and it is silly to suggest that he would be for increased privatization when he really isn't. The US is corporate run, that isn't going to change this election, or next election, so in order to increase the chances for those most at risk to survive we have to be strategic about every tiny step we make at this point in order to get anything done at all in our lifetimes. Of course we should still push for liberal candidates, but considering every seat matters here, you have to also be realistic and strategic about what you can realistically accomplish in the immediate time frame with what we currently have to work with, where you can realistically accomplish it and when. Having ideals is great, as long as you have an actual workable plan to get from point A to point B. Without a workable realistic plan, ideals are irrelevant.
Saying we want something to happen and not having any realistic plan to actually make it happen with what we have to work with is useless and pointless and isn't helping the situation at all really. It is as useful as saying " it would be cool to have a unicorn." Without the votes, it isn't happening. If you want the votes to make it happen, you have to have the districts needed. If you cannot take those districts with a liberal candidate, you take it with whoever the people will vote for in those districts by catering to that district. In the US, not everyone's vote is equal. In addition to that, not even everyone is willing to take the time to vote at all. Liberals have to win by much larger margins to win at all due to the rural vote being worth so much more. If the rural voters will not vote for " urban liberals" you either have to 1) have the liberals MOVE to the rural districts until they outnumber the current voters in the rural districts or 2) Offer a candidate that the voters in those districts will vote for. Since we have not had enough liberal voters move to the rural districts, they are forced into option 2 in order to do anything at all. In the end, if the dems do not have a majority, no one in their own party, liberal, mid or conservative have a chance in hell of passing anything. As long as Mitch McConnell runs the senate every single liberal bill passed in the house will never see the light of day. The majority is everything by whatever means necessary to get it there or our Senators such as Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren will never be able to get anything passed at all.. Once you take those districts, you then still have to BRIBE those representatives to vote for something they may be to the right on but are willing to do so because you give them something else they want more than the liberal thing you want them to vote for. That is how you get things done. People who complain about the bribes will likely not get anything passed at all and will have wasted their time entirely when they could still have gotten at least something done by willing to do whatever it takes to get the necessary bills passed.
I ranted a good deal about Obama's " back room deal with Pharma" , but the reality is here, he only made that deal because if he had not, many more people would have died. It isn't that he wanted to make the deal, he just understood the reality that he would not have enough votes, even among his own party without Pharma on board. Those are exactly the deals in our current political environment it takes to get anything done and without them, our ideals of " universal healthcare' will never be achieved within our lifetimes, no matter how much I dislike them. In the end, even deals I completely despise, like the Pharma deal, are necessary in our current environment in order to move forward at all in the long run. The pharma deal was temporary, the Affordable care act was not.