Author unknown:

"I WAS SCOLDED RECENTLY BY A BIDEN SUPPORTER for pointing out negatives about Biden instead of positively promoting Bernie's policies. I want to clarify some things about that.

FIRST, please believe me that Bernie supporters would greatly prefer to have an election be all about policy. In fact, one of the main reasons why you become a Bernie supporter in the first place is because Bernie is the most issue-oriented politician we have.

HOWEVER, Biden, his supporters, and MSNBC have all made this cycle about Biden's electability, and have urged us that we can't even think about policy, because removing Trump is the only thing that matters, and even that we are "privileged" for still wanting to base a vote on policy. In fact, many Biden supporters have bought into this to the point of readily admitting that Bernie's policies are better, while still supporting Biden "because we have to beat Trump." You all have otherwise conveyed and demonstrated to us that you are not going to listen to policy arguments if we made them, because you only care about Biden's relative electability in a general election.

So if you don't like us talking about Biden's relative strengths and weaknesses as a candidate, instead of Bernie's policies, please understand that Biden and his supporters have chosen that terrain for this battle. It wasn't my idea. And you simply cannot expect to make the entire focus of your campaign "I'm electable," and then object when your opponents point out your negatives as a candidate. It can't work that way.

In the practice of law, we have a rule that you cannot attack the character of a witness UNLESS the witness himself makes it a point to assert what good character he has. Then he has "opened the door" to attacks on his character.

Biden has chosen this battlefield, and Biden has opened this door. If it's the only issue we're allowed to talk about, rest assured that we are going to talk about it. If you don't like what we're saying, you should have thought about that before you made the issue the electability of someone who can't successfully attack Trump's lying because he lies nonstop like Trump about his own record, who has credible allegations of rape against him like Trump, who is in clear mental decline like Trump (but more advanced), who can't successfully attack Trump's corruption because of his own family's nepotism, who falls apart and calls voters names and tells them to "vote for someone else" when he's questioned, who has the same problems as Hillary matching up against Trump in the rust belt swing states because of his votes on trade, and who does not contrast well with Trump on a belligerent foreign policy. What am I forgetting, because there is so much awfulness here.

And don't even act like I'm helping Trump, as if ANYTHING listed above is a top secret opposition research file. It's all laughably and pathetically in plain view, no matter how much the establishment-friendly corporate media tries to ignore it, and the Republicans have already started using it all against him.

We still have a chance to nominate a candidate who is at least honest, cogent, and creates a clear contrast with Trump.

Moreover, COVID-19 is about to put us in Great Depression conditions, and we need the FDR agenda that got us out of that, which is the agenda Bernie has been fighting for for 40 years. Bernie was made for this moment."

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