Democratic Primaries
Showing Original Post only (View all)Donald Trump is not far right. [View all]
A supposed young, centrist social studies teacher I work with asked me what I thought about Joe Biden and his poll numbers. My standard answer at this point is it is 6 months too early for poll numbers. He then went on to say that he thought Biden had the best chance of beating Trump as he was a moderate. I asked why couldnt a far left candidate win against Trump when Trump won as a far right candidate.
That is when he stated, Trump isnt far right. He then asked me to tell him how Trump was far right. I brought up Trumps position on immigration, separating families, and how he negatively responds to all minorities. This teacher then switched his attack to Trump has never said anything racist, people say he has but he has never specifically said racist comments. When I replied with all Mexicans are rapists and murders this teacher said Trump said some and some are. I said Trump only said some after the fact, trying to clean it up. I also mentioned When Trump said there are good people on both sides. This teacher tried to downplay this statement.
Republicans always like to tell Democrats who they should run. If they lose they do want a moderate democrat to win instead of a progressive. I hear from Democrats who are so scared to lose that theyre want a moderate also, thinking it will peel off centrist votes and ensure a democratic victory. We cant be afraid as a party to be who we are. Republicans never are. When they lose they think its because they werent far right enough. Why cant we be more like that.
We had a blue wave last election because our people showed up, not because we peeled centrists off to vote for us. It will be the same next year if we give them a candidate that excites them.
Im not against Biden, and would vote for him, but we dont need to choose a candidate based on the political spectrum. Instead we should pick a candidate based on his or her positions and then work hard and pull together to make sure that candidate wins.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided