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Above average Democrat? Please, the guy has dementia. And no, I'm not a right winger, and I obviously think Trump is a worse option. But Biden isn't above average anything at this point. He's barely awake.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/02/biden-mexico-gaffe-real-lesson/677402/
But that's not even the point. Nancy Pelosi would be better than Trump, and I hate Nancy Pelosi. A dead cat would be better in the office of the presidency than Trump. You could trust the dead cat not to order the National Guard to start shooting BLM protesters, or drop a nuclear bomb on Iran, or start mass deportations. Picking out Biden's flaws as a reason not to vote for him, whether those flaws are real or blown-out-of-all-proportion by a lazy and dishonest media, is missing the point by about the length of the grand canyon.
So even if Biden is a bad candidate we should pretend like he's not because the alternative is worse? Trump is absolutely much worse, but that doesn't make Biden good. Why do we have to sell him as an above average candidate when he's not? Honestly I don't really see your point here. Claiming that Biden is bad doesn't make Trump any better. I'd also like to clarify that I never said that anyone should not vote for Biden. And I definitely don't endorse voting for Trump as an alternative.
I expected Biden to be pretty bad, just because he's a rich white guy who's been in politics all his life and the Democrats are usually pretty bad. I voted for him originally mainly just because he wouldn't try to kill all the Mexicans or re-invade Vietnam or put trans people in prison or whatever like Trump would, basically your point of view in this message.
He surprised me. I couldn't see Hilary Clinton forgiving student loan debt or pausing LNG exports or making these pitifully small sanctions on a pitifully small number of Israelis which is still better than most US presidents' "here's some more patriot missiles and rockets God bless your killing" approach to Israel. He's still pretty far from what I would like to have, but I expected pure bullshit and he's better than average. You're not required to agree, but that's how I see it.