Making my way through this video... @6:40 he is arguing that Biden is not a BOLD enough candidate to unite the low-income, low-education voters. But didn't Biden get the poor, non-college educated voters in the primary?
The left in America, especially the moderate sort who play up the #resistance hashtag as being the epitome of activism, are just as susceptible to the romanticization of the country as anyone.
An era existed within our lifetimes, in which things were good and we were the moral center of the planet, and it's only those other guys who've taken over recently who are fucking things up. Once we're rid of them, things will be better. It will save all the people who
used to be comfortable but are suffering under these new guys' rule, these idiots who have all the power but none of the accountability. And we need to take drastic actions to do so, like sending out Biden.
If that sounds uncannily like
Eco's outline of facism, well, like I said in the primary thread, this is MAGA for liberals. One of the most common explanations for the wider Black community in the south rallying around Biden from Black leftists in those same regions is that they are voting for Biden out of hopes that he will be more palatable to those in the status quo -- an interesting point, because these communities surely know more than anyone that such a romanticized view of America
never reflected this country's reality.
The answer to all of this in my mind is that Trump's regime has indeed paved the way for a subtler, savvier fascism, and it's happening right now, and it's hiding on the left in plain sight. And it's just as popular, because we need to do get Trump out of office by any means necessary, or so they say. I break ranks slightly with my leftists (such as this video) in thinking Biden is electable for this very reason. That utterly terrifies me; I don't see it as an optimistic viewpoint. Biden normalizes a sort of fascist relationship with this country more than he presents active resistance to the egregious behavior of the Trump administration.
This is part of what people mean when they say that Trump is a symptom of a larger cultural dysfunction in our society.
