[Peace] Biden’s Apparent Victory Proves that Pelosi Democrats Are Wrong to Blame the Left

[Robert Naiman]

Biden’s Apparent Victory Proves that Pelosi Democrats Are Wrong to Blame
the Left

There’s a finger-pointing blame game civil war going on now in the House
Democratic Caucus. Yes, it looks like Biden might eke out the election for
POTUS. But Republicans beat Democrats in the Congressional election.
Democrats didn’t take the Senate. And Democrats lost seats in the House. In
a presidential election year, with high Democratic turnout, with zillions
spent on ads and mobilization, with the Democratic candidate for POTUS
apparently eking it out, Dems lost seats in the House.

Of course, the Pelosi Democrats are blaming the Left. That’s their go-to
move, isn’t it? School children claim that the dog ate their homework.
Pelosi Democrats blame the Left. We lost because the Left was too radical!
With their wild claim that health care is a human right, not a privilege!
With their Green Dream or whatever! With their wild promises that young
people could go to public college for free, the same way that people in the
Young At Heart generation did when they were young! Trump and the
Republicans tied us to the wild ideas of the Radical Left! That’s why we
lost! Not because of our own failures to inspire anyone to vote for us!

Here’s why that story is Donkey Doo. Because apparently Biden won, even
though Trump and the Republicans tried to use exactly the same tactics
against Biden. Trump and the Republicans tried to tie Biden to the “wild
ideas” of the Radical Left. How come it worked against the Pelosi
Democrats, but not against Biden?

Here’s why. Because Biden had something to offer voters besides not being
Trump. Because, to borrow a word from a dark chapter of American history,
Biden “triangulated.” He stood halfway between the Pelosi Democrats and the
Left. Unlike the Pelosi Democrats, Biden is a real “centrist.” A real
“centrist” doesn’t just trash the Left. A real “centrist” listens to the
Left, in case the Left might have any good ideas that might get more people
more excited about voting for Democrats.

That’s what Biden did. Unlike the Pelosi “my way or the highway” Democrats,
Biden listened. After he beat Bernie in the primary, Biden didn’t do
scorched earth like the Pelosi Democrats do. He listened. He tried to
figure out how he could get as many Bernie Democrats as possible on board
the Biden train.

After Jim Clyburn helped Dem Establishment stomp on us in the South
Carolina primary, Jim Clyburn did something very righteous. When Bernie
conceded to Biden, Jim Clyburn said: it would be great if Biden could adopt
as much of the Bernie agenda as possible. That was pretty righteous. As a
BernieBro, I noticed that. “Good on your father,” as the Irish say. Clyburn
had Big Chits with Biden after he helped Biden and Dem Establishment stomp
on us. He used his Big Chits with Biden to push Biden to make peace with
the BernieBros by trying to adopt as much of the Bernie agenda as possible.

Biden listened. He listened to Clyburn. He went to his basement in Delaware
with a copy of the Bernie Agenda and he locked the door. He pored over the
Bernie Agenda, he scratched his head and he stroked his chin. And as he
pored over the Maximum Agenda of the “Radical Left,” he asked himself the
reasonable question that any real “centrist” would ask themselves:

“How much of this here Bernie Agenda can I do and still get elected POTUS?
What will the market bear?”

And Biden moved. No, he didn’t embrace “Medicare for All.” But his health
care plan is a BFD, as Biden himself might say. It’s a yuuuuge expansion
and advance over Obamacare, see Krugman’s analysis in the NYT. He didn’t
embrace “Green New Deal.” But his climate plan is a BFD. He got it from Jay
Inslee! For free! “Can you patent the Sun?”

So in fact, Biden WAS influenced by the ideas of the “Radical Left”! The
Trump/Republican accusation was MORE TRUE OF BIDEN than it was of the
Pelosi Democrats! But apparently Biden won and the Pelosi Democrats lost!
What does that prove?

What it proves is that listening to the ideas of the “Radical Left” is a
better electoral strategy in America than stomping on the “Radical Left.”
Most of the “Radical Left” prefers half a loaf to no bread and getting
stomped on in terms of the embrace of their ideas by Democrats.

This is another reason why Nancy Pelosi should retire as Speaker of the
House. We need a Biden Democrat who listens to the “Radical Left” instead
of only stomping on us as Speaker of the House, not a Pelosi Democrat who
only knows how to stomp on us.
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