I'm a Reddit refugee too. But thanks for the context. I haven't seen the straw man. I have noticed a really strong streak of "blue no matter who" which is a terrible attitude to have, that's the way the Maga folks think.
I'm not even in the US (I'm an Aussie) but my opinion is blue, but like, do better? We gotta do better. Please do better.
To be fair we have the same thing here with shills for the mainstream parties. (But we do have viable 3rd options)
More like he went down flailing wildly. Biden tried a lot of things that were never going to get through the supreme court. He did a lot, mostly ineffectively because he didn't deal with the real problems.
The supreme court and extremism.
His proposition was to go back to business as normal, but things have fundamentally changed.
Honestly Maga believes principles are more important than lives, and until Biden withdrew today, they were winning.
The truth is politics has become so hideously compromised that almost nobody is a "great" candidate anymore, nobody is inspiring. Watching everyone close ranks against Sanders last election solidified that.
I disagree with being characterised as a moderate
You might disagree. But disagreeing doesn't make it true. E.g Pelosi swears she's progressive, but that's not true
It was incredibly anti-democratic. The superdelegate system is designed to stop democracy from occurring in the party and ensure the candidate is picked by big donors.
The political system right now is simply good cop and bad cop.
Bad cop(republicans): i'll shoot you.
Good cop(Democrats): vote for me, I'm your only choice to stop him from shooting you (but it's in my best interests to let him threaten you forever, so you'll vote for me)
Both will forever suck. Both are fascists. We need better options
Theil is already massively invested with Trump and JD vance. So yeah. They do.