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Texin

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10. I made a decision late last week to support Biden.
Mon Mar 2, 2020, 02:19 PM
Mar 2020

I had been uncommitted simply because I wasn't able to gauge which one of these capable people had the best chance to win. I started out believing Warren might be the one. She has the right message and the temperament, along with the ability to communicate that message convincingly and on a human level. But week in and week out, she wasn't rising in the polls, and it became pretty clear to me that she had the same problem that Hilary did. And Kamala. And Amy. That problem?: She wasn't born with a dick and a set of balls. The misogyny in this country astounds and stupefies me, actually. It's ingrained. Endemic. It's been reinforced and enforced throughout this society through the "balm of the masses": religion. Especially evangelical Christianity, by using one of Jesus's charges to his followers (on only one occasion that I'm aware of) for, "women to yield to their husbands". It's kept women as lowly chattel for centuries, and the remaining vestiges of it linger on today.

That said, as I began to consider whom might be a more formidable opponent for tRump, I began to think Bloomberg might have been the one, with his financial wherewithal, but his debate performance was so woeful and Warren's so powerful that I had pretty much made up my mind that I'd vote for her in the Texas primary. That's what I fully intended to do, until I started looking at the poll numbers and consider the deep misogyny of the American electorate and resolved to vote for Biden, which I did last Friday and after considering his very sound debate performance that week as well.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
Okay I'm in for Biden [View all] Kerrycrat Mar 2020 OP
I'd have done it for Pete too. nolabear Mar 2020 #1
Welcome aboard. Great things are in store for Pete! Skya Rhen Mar 2020 #2
Great things are in store for Bernie as well. dubyadiprecession Mar 2020 #6
Do you really DownriverDem Mar 2020 #13
That's why I ended up regretting voting for him in the 2016 MI primary. I felt like a fool. catbyte Mar 2020 #14
I'd expect him to do this time what he did when up against HRC. calimary Mar 2020 #15
Me, too. He'll lose again at the Convention. MineralMan Mar 2020 #20
Welcome...I like Pete too. And I believe he has a bright future...I thank God he ran as my daughter Demsrule86 Mar 2020 #3
i liked him cuz he was so damned smart!!! Hes wasted on a mayorship..he needs to be Gov or more! samnsara Mar 2020 #5
He may need to leave Indiana...maybe Illinois would be good. Demsrule86 Mar 2020 #24
Go Joe, yortsed snacilbuper Mar 2020 #4
Welcome aboard Kerrycrat! blue-wave Mar 2020 #7
Kerrycrat, thanks for switching to Joe Biden! :) Sloumeau Mar 2020 #8
Do it for the country. Pete would approve. beastie boy Mar 2020 #9
I think he would be. Mayor Pete has class. calimary Mar 2020 #17
I made a decision late last week to support Biden. Texin Mar 2020 #10
I like Warren too Kerrycrat Mar 2020 #12
Wonder if Vegas has odds on Biden taking a swing at Trump if he is the candidate and they Pepsidog Mar 2020 #11
Thank you! MLAA Mar 2020 #16
Thank you, Kerrycrat! And thanks to everyone else doing what you've now done. calimary Mar 2020 #18
Thanks! MineralMan Mar 2020 #19
I'm sorry Pete didn't work out for you. He's great and has a bright future. We always have to Karadeniz Mar 2020 #21
I went from Pete to Biden too amuse bouche Mar 2020 #22
Pete just announced his support Kerrycrat Mar 2020 #23
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