Biden is not better than Trump… he’s much worse
To win the election, Democrats desperately need to secure the support of our country’s rising progressive voices. Here is what we can do to help the party free itself from the neoliberal clutches of its establishment.
By Amir Baradaran and Denton Callander
In recent months, many members of the political, media and industry elite have taken to advocating for the defeat of Donald Trump in the upcoming Presidential election at all costs. Predictably, the Democratic Establishment has gleefully taken up this message with calls for ‘unity’ behind their presumptive nominee, Joe Biden, all the while branding those who would argue or ask for something different as ‘radicals’.
In the current world of politics, to be positioned as ‘radical’ is to be positioned as disloyal and dangerous. We must ask, however, to whom are radical viewpoints dangerous? To be radical means to demand systemic change, and politicians and political actors whose power relies on such systems are threatened by any suggestion of reform lest their power diminish. This resistance to reform is spurred on by America’s corrupt campaign finance system and the well-resourced, highly organized and incestuous world of professional political lobbying.
Fear and financed resistance has, for far too long, motivated the Democratic…
