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Biden, and the democratic party more broadly have two roles to play (outside of maintaining capitalism).

1. Oppose Trump and the republican party
2. Crush, discredit, or co-opt any other organizations that could threaten their monopoly on opposition to the republican party.

When it’s time to fulfill role 1. the party always hedges, because they fear that taking any strong actions will alienate centrist voters, or more importantly donors. This means that on many issues, any progress made is not enough to undo the damage done under a republican government. On other issues the situation declines under either party. There are very few significant issues where the democrats are actually able to overcome the republicans long term.

All of this is very disappointing, but on its own it would still be preferable to republicans ruling completely unopposed.

The problem is when you factor in role 2. The republicans are not an unstoppable force of highly competent and well liked people. A party that was dedicated to taking serious actions to improve the lives of the average voter could easily beat the republicans electorally, if they wouldn’t also have to take on the democratic party and all of their media influence. When the democrats pursue role 2. they have no reason to hold back. Their continued existence relies on giving it their full effort. They will try to prevent any organization from accumulating enough power to push them left, while actively pushing the republicans to the far right to strengthen their own position.

Having to choose between two terrible candidates isn’t something that’s happened on accident. It’s the result of the ongoing actions of the democratic party.

At this point, with the ticking clocks of climate change and rising fascism, a democrat in the white house is not remotely adequate to make a difference. We’re headed to multiple simultaneous catastrophes either way. The only thing voting for Biden accomplishes is supporting the party that brought us here in clinging to power until their last breath.

Right now there is no ‘realistic’ alternative outside of the two party electoral system. I don’t know if there will be one in the future, but there’s certainly no hope in helping to reinforce it.

My guess is if you can tell you’re about to wake up, that means your imagination had a great idea for a premise, but didn’t know how to write a satisfying ending for it, and you noticed things were starting to unravel. You could try, as soon as you wake up, start workshopping what a compelling conclusion to the dream could have been. With some practice, your dreams might start to incorporate those ideas. Or just enjoy the sex, and don’t worry about your dreams needing to be complete works.

Friends have been using my pronouns. My family stopped using any pronouns for me. I’ll take that as a win.

A few years ago there was a study where something like 20% of Biden voters said they where “not sure” whether he’s the head of a pedophile cabal.

I think it’s something like “shaved with the national razor”. Maybe?

That means they also failed to desecrate a Navajo sacred space.

Does anyone want to share what music they listen to while reading? I never really did ‘study music’, but now I have background noise I need to deal with, and could use some suggestions.

Yeah, not the worst year overall for climate disasters, but it’s a vague enough description there were definitely going to be things like all the temperature records that were broken you could point to as the ‘worst event’. Also the Canadian wildfires were definitely big enough to qualify as at least ‘a big ass fire’.