Accepting the Lesser of Two Evils and the Problems that Brings to 2024

This was written on April 27, 2023. It is as significant a problem today as it was seven months ago.

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It was a little more than three years ago that the Democratic party was desperately trying to undermine its two most popular candidates so that it could put up an establishment dweeb who would remain loyal to the party's big-money donors. To the party's chagrin, Bernie Sanders was still packing arenas and stadiums wherever he appeared, and Tulsi Gabbard tripled her support by stating the truth about some of the other candidates on the debate stage. After Bernie questioned Pete Buttigieg's claim of victory in the Iowa primary, the party knew that he was doing his own counting. 

The party did not have time to rig New Hampshire, which Bernie Sanders won. Joe Biden came in fifth with one-third the votes that Bernie got, but who somehow got two-thirds the number of delegates that Bernie got. 

The party then denied Tulsi Gabbard a spot on the debate stage claiming that she failed to qualify. However, it allowed a former-Republican mayor of New York to buy his way onto the stage. While mayor of New York, Bloomberg (you may have heard of his news network) was infamous for his "stop and frisk" policy that courts struck down as unconstitutional. Clearly, the party was less concerned about qualifying for the debate, and more about finding some way to stop the growing progressive wing of the party. 

Joe Biden: the Right is Wrong to Criticize Him, and the Left is Wrong for Defending Him

If you read posts on my blog regarding Joe Biden, you will find that I am not a fan of his. Even though he was able to beat Trump in 2020, his nomination over the most popular candidate, Bernie Sanders, may have cost progressive candidates in down-ticket races the votes they needed to win their races. 

Due to the pandemic, both Sanders and Tulsi Gabbard dropped out and endorsed Biden with primaries still to go and time left before the convention. Bernie then became quite presidential as he led a campaign to inform the public about what was known about the pandemic. Tulsi still spread her message of love and unity when she spoke, but she also spoke of the need to vote for Biden in order to defeat Trump. 

Though I was critical of the nomination process that gave us old Joe Biden and his boxcar full of timeless baggage, I was happy that he beat Trump. However, my appreciation for getting rid of Trump does not mean that Biden gets a pass on his past and present indiscretions. Therein lies the problem: the right is wrong to criticize Biden because everything they accuse him of doing wrong, Trump has done exponentially worse, and the left is wrong for defending Joe Biden because doing the same thing on a lesser scale is still doing the same thing.