Establishment Democrats Refuse to Concede That Biden Is More Part of the Problem Than Part of the Solution

Earlier today, a Facebook friend posted something about how BIden has a very long history of being more of a problem for this country, than being anything like a positive force for change.

Admittedly, I responded and went off on a tangent. Still, some points that I made are relevant, and so it seemed like a decent idea to share them here:

I remember reading somewhere that Clinton moved the Democratic Party to the right, forcing the Republicans to move even farther extremist right. Hell, Clinton was even nicknamed "Republican lite" at the time of his presidency. Meanwhile, progressive continued to get squeezed out, and these establishment Democrats obtained the same knee-jerk reaction that self-identified conservatives in America had whenever they heard ideas that could possibly be labeled as "socialist." And now, after four decades of the pendulum being stuck moving in one direction, we have slipped behind numerous other countries in terms of standard of living. We are the only industrialized nation that fails to provide citizens with some form of universal, affordable healthcare and, in fact we pay the highest prices for healthcare and medicine in the world by far. We stand alone as the only nation in the world that officially rejects the science of climate change. We have more people behind bars here in the "land of the free" than any other nation in the world. Our education system, once the top-ranked school system decades ago, now seems to hover closer to the bottom among advanced nations. We have "leaders" who boast about strong numbers in the stock market, when the real economy is not serving regular Americans, as many people rely on second and even third jobs to get by. Plus, much of the economy that they boast of is built on a bubble of debt, and sooner or later, that will need to be paid. We are, by far, the country with the most debt, both by the national government, as well as by citizens more generally. Other countries enjoy more affordable healthcare, childcare, have better schools and public transportation systems less gun violence and deaths. We have seen the life expectancy drop. And Republicans and establishment Democrats agree with each other far too often to really even do anything meaningful to acknowledge all of these problems, much less seriously address them. They just give us platitudes, tell us "God Bless America" and keep claiming that this is God's country, and discourage anything resembling what other countries are doing, even when they are doing it better. Biden represents more of the same, and even if, by some miracle, he beats Trump, he will likely cause another Trump of the future to be normalized and come to power. Sorry to run off like this, but this is nothing short of a decline, and it has been going on for some decades now. Worse, it is Americans who are choosing it, making choices with ramifications that they apparently do not understand, and then militantly defending their decisions. Sometimes, the political realities in this country feel hopeless, and it is easy to despair. We really need someone like Sanders, and Biden just won't do.