âThe guy is not a democrat with a small d,â the president told CNNâs Erin Burnett.
President Joe Biden said in an interview Wednesday he is all but certain Donald Trump, his predecessor and presumptive 2024 rival, will reject the results of the November election and called Trump âdangerousâ for the nation.
âThe guy is not a democrat with a small d,â Biden told CNNâs Erin Burnett during a visit to Wisconsin this week.
âHow many court cases do they have, Supreme Court cases? Theyâve all said this is a totally legitimate election. ⌠He may not accept the outcome of the election? I promise you he wonât. Which is dangerous.â
The president went on to say other world leaders had expressed to him their fear of a second Trump presidency and pointed to Trumpâs pledge to prosecute his political opponents if he enters the Oval Office once more.
Listen-
If you donât vote, someone is still getting elected. Because that is how elections work. Not voting doesnât make the bad things go away.
And folding your arms and pouting, hoping that that the other guy winning sends a message will only end VERY poorly for a lot of people- and the message will fall on deaf ears. Because that is how it works. Youâre not NEARLY as relevant as you think you are as a collective. Because youâve already been counted as a non-vote. They know every election year that SJWs arenât going to vote. Itâs already factored in.
But if you DO vote, you can help ensure that something exponentially worse doesnât happen.
Then, over the next four years you can get off your ass and actually do something that will matter come 2028. Or, you could just do as your lot does, and not give a fuck until the election year and then suddenly become outraged by whatever is happening then.
Either way⌠your call. Youâre not making the waves you think you are. You never do. Remember Bernie? Howâd that work for you? And you people were actually TRYING then. Hell, I donated several hundred dollars to his campaign when I could.
Youâll learn, or you wonât.
Look, itâs really important that you understand this; what youâre doing right now, this political strategy, is an abject failure. People have done things just how youâre arguing, have gone along with it for literally decades it it has failed. So the only reason I can think that you continue is because you want that failure to continue.
Also, you canât on one hand write an entire essay of a response to something and then claim itâs no big deal and ânot making wavesâ. Remember Clinton? Howâd that work out for you?
Your suggestion to fix this failure of a system is literally âdo nothingâ. Please try to recognise that: You are advocating for fighting the status quo by doing nothing.
It will not work. If you want change you need to take action. Not voting is the exact opposite of attempting to change things. Use the influence you have to push for a change in the right direction.
Who said do nothing? Iâm saying your suggestion of continually rewarding corporate dems with power has failed.
If your political strategy has brought us to the point where weâre literally condoning genocide with our vote then itâs a failure. You understand that, right? If the Chosen One the Dem establishment has forced on us is nevk and neck with Donald Trump then that establishment is a failure and continuing to reward them with power for these pied piper bullshit strategies is not going to lead to progress.
Theyâve been doing it for forty years and all weâve gotten for it is a tightening noose around our freedoms as they jerk off to corporate lobby money and insider trading, playing grab ass with fascists.
Thatâs your âprogressâ.
And your solution to the problem is literally not vote, which is doing exactly nothing. I have a really hard time seeing how you can expect yourself actively not influencing the system to somehow influence the system.
Itâs literally the only way you can can communicate that you will not play the game theyâve rigged. And yes, that has an influence whether you are willing to admit it or not.
Because hereâs whatâs going to happen if Biden gets his next term; Democrats will take that as a signal that they can be complicit in literal genocide and voters will still vote for them as long as they keep propping up worse options on the otherside. And so they will keep propping up a worse option and acting with complete disregard to their base.
You are not going to âturn things aroundâ at some point in the vague future, there is not going to be âslow, generational progressâ, thereâs going to continue to be a choice between Fascist and Fascist Lite because Fascist Lite understands they do not need to change anything about how theyâre doing things in order to win elections.
Is it a terrible and costly choice to call the Dems on their game of chicken? Yup. But thatâs where your politics have put us. Itâs degraded our democracy to the point that our only remaining choice to stop the vehicle from going off a cliff is to veer it into a tree.
We couldâve hit the brakes earlier, there were plenty of opportunities and warning signs where the road was going, but people like you kept saying âoh no, pressing the brakes isnât viable, the corporate media told me that brakes are extremist. Just keep going this next mile and then we can slow down a little after. Just go around this one last bend and itâll turn into a U-turn.â
Your politics donât work and the threats and condescension have simply lost the effect, I cannot emphasize this enough; itâs not a viable political tactic any longer. If you think itâs that important that Biden win then you need to be doing everything you can to influence him to radically change his behavior, not sitting here trying to convince other people to deny what they see with their eyes and hear with their ears and play make-believe with you that âjust a little genocideâ is ok for Democrats to support. Enough of the trolley problem bullshit, no one is buying it.
I never said the current system is great: But given the choice between driving off a cliff and veering into a tree, your response seems to be to not tough the wheel and letting whatever happens happen.
You seem to be ignoring the fact that someone will win the upcoming election. By not voting, youâre leaving it up to everyone else to choose.
By all means: Something needs to be done to fix the broken system, but saying that we should have pumped the brakes long ago, and then doing nothing about the most immediate issue - who the next president will be - doesnât help. We need to ensure that we get some president that doesnât persecute political opponents if we want to have the option of electing an actually good president in the future.
By all means: Start or join a movement to get better candidates in the future, vote for other candidates in local elections and primaries to lift them up. The fight youâre talking about has to be fought long before the final two candidates are locked into the ballot, and complaining that itâs lost wonât effect who wins in the end.
Youâre part of the problem, not the solution. Single issue nonvoters got us Trump once already. Now youâre about to do it again.
And just like in 2016, youâll all disappear when it comes time to own up to it.
THIS is what youâre getting with your non vote.