Progressive Democrats' political success depends on a second Biden Presidency.

[lees1975]

https://signalpress.blogspot.com/2024/03/whats-matter-with-progressive-left.html

Trump managed to win a very narrow victory in 2016, precisely because the infighting and bickering over "this and that" kind of issues among Progressives led to a lower voter turnout, and to votes going to third party candidates that were, frankly, a waste of time and effort. A second Trump presidency would kill whatever progress the Green Party thinks they have made by running Stein and "getting their issues out there." He was opposed to everything they stood for. The best thing Jill Stein could do now is come out with a public statement recognizing the danger to democracy of a second Trump presidency, dropping out of the race and endorsing Joe Biden's candidacy. That will do more for their pro-worker, anti-war, climate action agenda than her run for the White House again could ever achieve.

The results of a second Trump Presidency are easy to see, since he's filling us in and gets whatever time in the news media he wants to tell everyone exactly what he would do. Progressives like Santita Jackson and Rainbow Push, who is pushing the candidacy of Cornell West are the first targets on Trump's list, and whatever political progress they've made, which has been hard fought and hard earned, will be ended. This man is a white supremacist bigot, and if groups like Rainbow Push stand alone, they have no power at all to stop him.

I actually agree with Stein, that the two-party system is broken. But her efforts to fix it have not only failed miserably, but they've actually caused further regression because they give control to far right elements who don't believe government works, and who deliberately sabotage its efforts. On the other hand, President Joe Biden, with marginal, but with Democratic control of Congress, got more done in two years than any other President since the Johnson administration. And that success was built on an alliance that came together against a common enemy, and defeated him.

A second Biden Presidency will be the foundation of progressive political success.

[TwilightZone]

1. Biden can only sign what makes it to his desk.

If progressives and others on the left really want him to push for a more progressive agenda, they should help elect enough Democrats to be able to get those items passed.

For people like Stein, grandstanding appears to be more important than political success.

[lees1975]

2. We have to win this election in a big way from top to bottom.

We have the numbers. We just have to get them out there.