So a friend said, "But the Democrats are just as bad"

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I was under the impression that Bernie Sanders and parts of his team are Biden.Advisors. Maybe even AOC. I don't suppose you remember when noted don't count Bernie out after losing the nomination.

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Intrinsic wrote:I was under the impression that Bernie Sanders and parts of his team are Biden.Advisors. Maybe even AOC. I don't suppose you remember when noted don't count Bernie out after losing the nomination.
No, they aren't advisors. He was able to select a few people to sit on platform commities for a few weeks. They're already done, and the report has already been submitted...their input has ended.

Pramila Jayapal co-chaied the healthcare committee, but she was not even permitted to bring M4A to the table for discussion.

AOC co-chaired the environmental committee, but she was not even permitted to bring her 'green new deal' to the table for discussion.

And real progressive champions like Nina Turner weren't allowed a seat on any of the committees.

These committees' recommendations still have to be approved by Biden before being accepted as his election platform. And even if he uses the recommendations, he is not bound to actually implement them if he is elected. They were simply an attempt to pacify progressives, to help secure their votes.

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Where do you get that idea?

Bernie doesn't think so. AOC doesn't think so. Both Progressives disagree with your hypothesis on equal evil.

Gotta clip any hint of progressiveness in the bud. It defeats your bizarro equal evil, 50/50 hypothesis.
Joe Biden gives the progressives a seat Under his Tent.
Trump: no way - no how - never.

This alone tips the scale.

Trump is out. Biden now is the only hope for Progressive change.
The Lincoln Project, and other Republicans against Trump, agrees. Since Bernie's team been on board the LP has been actively supporting Biden. Pledged to work with the Democrats after the election no matter what the outcome, to removeing the racist trumpians from Congress. Seems only the Die Hard fascists still support Mitch McConnell et al.

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If you think Biden will do anything progressive you are out of your mind.

Pay close attention to Bernie's interview with Chris Hayes when he qualifies everything he's saying with the phrase "...if implemented..."

Will be the most progressive president since FDR?...really?
He's going to have to go hard to beat LBJ's civil rights and M4A.

Keep drinking your kool-aid. :p

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Yabetcha. Yummy
Beats the hell of gagging on four more years of covid-19, reduced to jes an epidemic in the United States.. only. Joe Biden's point of bringing Bernie in was because of the pandemic, his health care rhetoric .. yanno science back. This ain't Politics as Usual this is covid-19.

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