#me in that voice ‘im catherine and i love joe biden’

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how do u respond to people who criticize you for liking biden

Well frankly, I’m tired of it and I’m tired of defending him when I feel I shouldn’t have to still be doing this level of pandering (and the attacks are pretty outlandish and some no less than disgusting conspiracy theories) because the thing is

1. Trump is a bigoted, incompetent fascist.

2. Joe Biden is the antithesis of Trump in every way.

3. Joe Biden is a good man! And a good politician qualified for the job and prepared for this critical moment!

Three is the most important and the most overlooked.

In short, my response comes down to: Joe Biden is a good, decent man. Joe Biden cares deeply. Joe Biden listens.

He is not the lesser of two evils, he is objectively better and he is a Good candidate who will make an even better president!!!

And Joe Biden’s experience matters! When republicans didn’t want to give into President Obama, Joe Biden is the one Boehner and McConnell came to the table with. Joe Biden is the one who got the deal. Again. And again. Joe Biden is the one who grew as a person and translated that in his politics and made Obama come out for gay marriage. He’s the guy!

He will surround himself with people who are experienced, who care, who are competent. He will appoint liberal judges. His EPA head will protect the environment because he believes in the climate crisis!! He got us threw a recession that was on track to become a depression - and we are now in a worse situation - not only does he know what to do and know the team to get it done but HES ALREADY ACHIEVED IT!!

The idea that he’s not progressive enough is bogus to me. I love Bernie Sanders with every ounce of my being (according to isidewith.com I agree with him 97% of the time) but he is not the guy who can get a deal with Mitch McConnell. The socialist (which I am as well) will not be able to unite the bitterly divided country the way we desperately need and that Joe will be able to. It’s one thing to stand for something, even better to fight for it but at the end of the day you need to get it done. Joe’s been getting it done his whole life.

Joe is the guy who can get things passed and he will be the most progressive president since FDR. He’s got the experience and legislative skill set of LBJ and the empathy and foresight of FDR - which we desperately need. He listens and grows and his platform is progressive and has gone more progressive because he has those qualities. We can’t hate McConnell for breaking the system with his partisanship then blow up the entire country because Joe Biden wasn’t partisan enough.