I’m dumb, but the lot of you Biden fans seem incapable of pointing to a single damned thing to get excited about. Tell me, how well did barely campaigning on the single issue of not being Trump work for Hillary? Y’all are going to be mighty shocked and pissed when this replay of 2016 inevitably leads to the another Trump victory. And the worst part of it is that it is such a shitty outcome that I will take no pleasure in saying “I told you so”.

Maybe you can help me out then instead of just insulting me. Can you give me one single policy that Biden is proposing – nothing that is a mere nullification of something Trump has pushed/stood for, mind you – that has you excited to vote for him?

Yeah. I do see the difference. You think “orange man bad!” is a good enough platform to win the election. And you could be right. Trump has shat the bed so insanely much that it might even cost him the next election. But I don’t get all the vitriol whenever I suggest that maybe, just maybe running a campaign that gives people something to vote FOR rather than just AGAINST might be a good idea. Not to mention the fact that while a Biden presidency may well manage to reverse at least some of the wrongs committed under Trump, it will do sweet fuck all to address the fundamental rot at the core of the system that allowed a piece of shit like Trump to rise to the top in the first place. A Biden presidency will, with 100% mathematical certainty, seed the ground for something even worse than Trump not very far down the line. Forgive me for giving a shit about that,.

First, you give me a list that includes zero actual policy items. Then you link to his website. What, you expect me to do the work and find out what has you stoked? I mean, I know it can’t be universal health care, full student loan forgiveness, a UBI, the green new deal, or anything else that actually had people on the left excited since none of those are on the table. But I’m not a mind reader. YOU tell ME what has you excited. Is it really that hard? (spoiler: yes. yes it is)

And this is why I worry that Biden will lose. When asked for one simple policy item that you get excited about, you fail to do so and instead obfuscate and say “no, no, YOU do the work”. This is the Democratic campaign writ large. Are people phone banking? Are they campaigning hard? Are they doing their dogged best to convince anyone not already convinced to get out and vote for Biden? (spoiler alert: nope, except for the all-important fence sitting centre-right voter still out there. I hear there might be three of them in the entire country)

The campaign seems trapped in Groundhog Day, 2016 edition: Smug certainty that their team will win. Unwillingness to propose anything significant or meaningful that will actually help people. Refusing to entertain ANY criticism of a wildly imperfect (downright shitty, really) candidate. Touting the endorsements of monsters like Rick Scott and the Lincoln Project. Maybe Trump has gone so far that this will be enough and he’ll lose. But with the stakes as high as they are, it’s a fucking stupid gamble to take.

And which of those 200 policies has you excited to vote for Biden? Jesus Tiki, y’all keep calling me thick and an eejit, and yet you seem incapable of answering a simple question. Give me something to get excited about. Give me something other than “orange man bad”. Why is this so fucking hard for you that you have to punt and insult me every. motherfucking. time? ONE THING. It’s all I ask.

And your anecdotal assurances about the campaign aside, no. No, people are not campaigning hard. For fucks sakes, the Dems aren’t even opening ground offices in swing states. WHAT THE HELL!!?? Sure, pretend that you cannot possible door knock AND keep a safe social distance. But that’s bullshit, and you know it. A big chunk of the country is terrified (rightly so) of another Trump victory. But that doesn’t translate into ANY enthusiasm for Biden. No volunteers. No ground game. No issue(s) to rally around and get people excited about. Nothing.

Meanwhile, Biden himself is doing as little as humanly possible publicly, maybe a proof of life video every few days or so, because everyone on his team knows what a porridge brain he is and they are just hoping and praying he keeps it together long enough to get elected.

But what the hell. Get mad at me. Shoot the messenger. Because that’s what really matters right now. And if Biden loses, y’all can blame it on voter stupidity, or a third party, or disenchanted Bernie bros, anything, just as long as no one thinks to blame a terrible party, with a terrible, tone deaf campaign, with a terrible candidate.

How the hell can I reject your answers when you have yet to give me one? I asked for one policy position that has you excited to vote for Biden. ONE policy. ANYTHING. But instead of answering, you keep pointing me to links of 10,000+ words of focus-grouped pablum to sift through. It’s not what I asked for. And when I call you on it, you get mad-not-mad at me over your inability to find one lousy thing to get stoked about. So you dissemble. You insult. And you refuse to acknowledge that there is a problem. Your inability to come up with a single damned thing is no surprise, though. According to a Pew Research Poll, only 9 percent of Biden supporters support him because of his policies. Considering what he’s put forward, or more accurately NOT put forward, it’s shocking that the number is even that high.

www.pewresearch.org/politics/2020/08/13/election-2020-voters-are-highly-engaged-but-nearly-half-expect-to-have-difficulties-voting/

But hey, nothing to see here. (actually, that’s rather accurate, come to think of it) I’m going to pretend there is a groundswell of enthusiastic support for Biden the man and the platform! Everyone is going crazy for “no medicare for all”, for example. His “let’s acknowledge climate change and do laughably little to address it” is generating massive support. And if “I have no empathy for the suffering of young people. I mean give me a break” won’t win him the millennial vote, then nothing will. Likewise with his desire to train cops to shoot people in the leg instead of the fucking face. If that isn’t enough to satisfy BLM and its supporters, well sir, who knows what possibly could then! The entire nation is going gaga for Joe, and anyone saying otherwise is a fool and a liar. Speaking of lies, here are some more lies for you from the NYT and Washington Post, among others….

“Biden’s team conducts no in-person campaigning and has yet to open a stand-alone office in any swing state”

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/campaign-of-contrasts-trumps-raucous-crowds-vs-bidens-distanced-gatherings/2020/09/08/8633e69a-f1dc-11ea-b796-2dd09962649c_story.html

www.nytimes.com/2020/09/17/us/politics/joe-biden-campaign.html

time.com/5889093/joe-biden-michigan-campaign/

www.commondreams.org/news/2020/09/17/recipe-disaster-democrats-worry-biden-campaign-missing-action-battleground-states

Fuck it. I’m just a troll, what do I know.

Thanks Old Tofu. Finally someone with an actual answer, and more than one actual position even. Mind you, he’s not going to increase corporate tax rates, not ever. He only wants to decriminalize pot, which is not legalization. Rejoining the WHO is hardly something to excite the electorate… but the minimum wage thing is good. Not super exciting, mind you. It’s no green new deal or universal health care. And given Biden’s track record, I won’t hold my breath expecting him to follow through. But at any rate, it is indeed a policy, and one that can even garner a modicum of enthusiasm among voters. Thank you for a real answer.

So another question if I may: is it nearly enough?

I worry that it may not even be enough to win the election. Or that it’ll be a marginal victory that the alt-right and Trump crowd will label illegitimate and things will go to shit right fast. And while the DNC probably doesn’t care all that much if they lose to Trump, (they were much more worried about “losing” to Bernie, hence the ratfucking), I dunno if the country can survive another 4 years of Trumpism. Here’s hoping the Reagan Democrat wins resoundingly, and we slow the inevitable swirl down the drain some.