Pissed about Super Tuesday? Suck it up: Beating Trump means supporting the Democratic nominee

[dajoki]

Pissed about Super Tuesday? Suck it up: Beating Trump means supporting the Democratic nominee
https://www.salon.com/2020/03/05/pissed-about-super-tuesday-suck-it-up-beating-trump-means-supporting-the-democratic-nominee/

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In a new essay for the New Republic, political scientist and pollster Rachel Bitecofer describes this moment in political history:
https://newrepublic.com/article/156402/hate-ballot

As the electorate is currently constituted, there are more potential Democratic voters out there than there are Republican, and not just in California. There are more in the Midwest and in the Sun Belt. There are so many more in Virginia and Colorado that both states have moved off the swing state map.

The 2020 election will be a battle of the bases, with nothing less than the country's survival as a functional democracy on the ballot. Partisanship is a hell of a drug — especially when it's cut with a heavy dose of existential fear.

There are eight months to Election Day. Much can and will happen that is outside of the ability of the pundits, the pollsters and the commentariat to predict. But one thing is certain. There will be Democratic and independent voters who are upset that their preferred candidate is not the party's presidential nominee. Some of these voters may choose to stay home, to vote for a meaningless third-party candidate or even to support Donald Trump in some ill-conceived protest against the system.

Such impulses are dangerous. Instead, these angry and disaffected Democrats and independents must vote with their heads and not their hearts, must embrace a new maturity, and must abandon childish purity tests that are best suited for halcyon days and a time of "normalcy" than for the nightmarish crisis of the Age of Trump.

Not to support the Democratic nominee — whoever that may be — is to aid Donald Trump and his authoritarian movement in their quest for a second term.

Moreover, not to vote against Donald Trump is to betray American democracy and the very values that so many disaffected progressives, Democrats and independents claim to embrace. Is the Democratic Party perfect, or even fully functional? Of course not. But to sabotage it now is to embrace darkness.

[turbinetree]

1. K&R +1

[DanTex]

2. This is true, although "suck it up" is probably not the most useful way to express it.

Better would be something like: Bernie and his supporters have accomplished great things, and his ideas will play a major role in the party going forward, but for now we need to unite to defeat Trump, otherwise there will be no future for any of Bernie's young supporters to be able to carry on his message in.

[we can do it]

4. How bout put on your big boy panties?

[lindalou65]

3. Indeed we must vote for the Democrat nominee no matter who wins

I totally agree. We will have to wholeheartedly get behind the nominee and GOTV for the sake of our threatened democracy. Trump must go!