The young are more difficult to predict. Those under 30 see a lifetime of elections in their future. To many of them, 2020 was the year the Democrats had multiple candidates who would change the status quo. Democrats had the chance to make a bold choice, to move in a forward direction, to excite and bring a new generation of voters into the party. Instead, they fell for the bait put out by Republicans that the progressive candidates were radicals and leftists and Marxists and they rejected them, one by one, leaving the oldest and least progressive candidate imaginable.
And then Joe Biden chose Kamala Harris, who spent her career as a prosecutor working inside our arbitrary and unfair criminal justice system without bringing any real change to it. She could have chosen to be one of Liberty's Last Champions, working as a public defender, a fighter against the death penalty, a lawyer representing the powerless and the downtrodden, fighting in the trenches every day. But instead she chose a career which put those same powerless and downtrodden people in prison. You can't change a system like the criminal justice system from within. You only end up becoming the system. (h/t to Bernie Sanders, talking about our economic system).
But here we are. As Donald Trump says, "It is what it is." So, what are you going to do about it? Run and hide, like Donald Trump does when faced with a difficult choice? Or put on your big pants, hold your nose, and vote for the politics of yesteryear?
Don't follow my lead, because I will never vote for Joe Biden based on his 35 year record on crime legislation in the Senate. Most people have other priorities.
So use your head and watch out for third party candidates in your rear-view mirror. Not the trivial, mentally unstable Kanye West, but the Green Party candidate who has the values we needed in a Democrat candidate (and who chose a woman of color for his running mate before Joe Biden.)
