I’ll vote for whomever is the nominee coming out of the DNC, and neither were my first choice, but I’m going to focus my giving and volunteering energy on other down-ballot races.
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Replying to @bkeegan @lorenterveen
This video clip is going to be massively weaponized by disinformation campaigns to split the vote. But it reveals a troubling tendency for Biden to punch down and romanticize the past:https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/joe-biden-no-empathy/ …
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Replying to @bkeegan
Right... just to be clear, he did not say he had no empathy for younger people ('today'), right? His point was that things were tougher / worse in the late 1960s, correct?
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Replying to @lorenterveen
That’s the gist of the larger conversation, but good luck explaining a clipped video where he chose to punch down on the struggles young people are facing right now:https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/08/millennials-are-screwed-recession/596728/ …
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Replying to @bkeegan
I can't figure out how to refer to a tweet here, but I think the thread by
@mattyglesias from 12:11 PM (Central Time, I guess) today stated the big issues very well.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @lorenterveen
There’s a fundamental cognitive dissonance in play when the argument boils down to “we face such an existential threat that you must vote for the candidate who says things aren’t so bad right now.”
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Replying to @bkeegan
OK, you got me. I totally disagree with Biden that Trump is *the problem*, and that once you get rid of him, Republicans will be willing to work with Biden. They won't. Their party is broken. That's why the candidates who argued the need for structural change were my top choices.
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Replying to @lorenterveen @bkeegan
But I still say that beating Trump is so important that, damnit, I'm going to be enthusiastic for Biden, and I think everyone else should be too.
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Replying to @lorenterveen
There's enough time to the day of the election for the party to come together. There should be space for people to grieve over the time and effort they invested in other campaigns. My parents had 3 Warren staffers living with them for >6 months.
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Replying to @bkeegan @lorenterveen
But there's a real generational split between boomers whose political imaginaries are haunted by the landslides of McGovern '72 and Mondale '84 and millenials whose imaginaries are haunted by close misses like Gore '00, Kerry '04, and Clinton '16.
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Huh... My thinking is absolutely dominated by Gore 2000 and Clinton 2026, and the role of 3rd party spoilers.
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