If you're not presenting Democrats who've already voted with a candidate AND a plan, you're just trolling them

[bigtree]

...knocking and yanking voters around, gaslighting Democrats who already chose Joe Biden to run in this election like you're in the opposition.

You might as well be, if you're on a whispering campaign trying to slyly undo the results of a primary election they had every chance of running in or challenging Joe Biden with their candidate.

As Joe Biden reminded Democrats in Congress in his letter which every one of them opened in their inbox and read Monday morning:

"This was a process open to anyone who wanted to run. Only three people chose to challenge me. One fared so badly that he left the primaries to run as an independent. Another attacked me for being too old and was soundly defeated. The voters of the Democratic Party have voted. They have chosen me to be the nominee of the party.

We had a Democratic nomination process and the voters have spoken clearly and decisively. I received over 14 million votes, 87% of the votes cast across the entire nominating process. I have nearly 3,000 delegates, making me the presumptive nominee of our party by a wide margin.

Do we now just say this process didn’t matter? That the voters don’t have a say?

I decline to do that. I feel a deep obligation to the faith and the trust the voters of the Democratic Party have placed in me to run this year. It was their decision to make. Not the press, not the pundits, not the big donors, not any selected group of individuals, no matter how well intentioned. The voters — and the voters alone — decide the nominee of the Democratic Party. How can we stand for democracy in our nation if we ignore it in our own party? I cannot do that. I will not do that."

What President Biden left unsaid was the outrageous reality that NONE of these politicians who worked up their statements of regret, reconsideration, or remorse at the voter's choice in this election asked our opinion or permission, they're just roiling democracy in their own individual interests, not in some defense of the party or presidency.

We don't establish or defend presidencies in the U.S. by fiat of the political class. It's not populism to align yourself with the political elite as they work to undermine votes cast and won, many of those agreeing with their efforts even more amenable to their entreaties to undo the votes of millions of Democrats the more prominent and famous the opposition.

This movement against Joe Biden is without question, openly anti-voter, but it's also a tyranny against the democratic system of elections. It's an end run around the primary election system which was supposed to represent OUR participation in choosing our candidate in this election.

We already chose, but these pols and others are addressing Joe Biden as if he's supposed to give them cover for their sly scheme. We see them out here. Voters see these people who believe our votes are to be traded away by millionaires both in and out of office who use their elevated positions, OUR offices of government, as well, to attempt to speak over Democratic voters and down to them.

That's who these folks who are whispering that all of this undermining of democracy is normal and necessary are sidling up to, and cajoling others to just give in on behalf of.

Not the American people, but a handful of elite millionaires in and out of government who never asked one voter for their permission or support to relinquish our democratic rights. They never asked one of us if it was fine for them to meddle with votes cast (and it's too damn late now).

They just got in our faces and insisted it should be done.

That's not democracy in any form. It's authoritarianism and worse, and they will have to live with THAT abomination of democracy they participated in, whatever the outcome of this election.

[Walleye]

1. Have any of these smart asses talk to Joe about it? Or just written public op Ed pieces? Why do

They feel they have to put all of our business in the street

[LisaL]

2. Lets say each of them even has their own favorite "candidate."

I don't think any of them is even going to agree on the same person.

[Grolph_]

3. It is the wealthy that are kicking our party around

A sad truth of multi-million dollar school board races and billions of dollars spent on national races is that the money has to come from somewhere.

While most of us donate to campaigns from home (on-line) or directly out of our wallet, politicians have learned that they can get more with less work from the wealthy. That makes the wealthy believe that they are better suited to be making decisions for all of us. Think Calvinism, it's just another cult.

And all that money goes somewhere. Mostly to the media companies. The same media companies that are telling us that they have a better idea for us.

While the donors and their friends contemplate accepting Trump and Fascism in order to get some more tax cuts, I am supporting the most progressive president in my lifetime. I continue to support President Biden and VP Harris.

[bigtree]

4. what they do

Link to tweet

[Deek1935]

5. Excellent Post!