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As I’ve been developing my own views on and watching others discuss Joe Biden I have noticed one key difference in how people view a potential Biden presidency and both of them are equally valid. The key difference I’m talking about is the generational divide and how it affects the outlook of Biden potentially becoming the president. It seems to me that, in general, people 40 and under look at a Biden presidency the way I do. He is just another establishment member of the party that most likely won’t get anything done or make any major changes. He is a puppet of the DNC and the establishment in general and will continue to favor big money interests over the people at large. He is the antithesis of the movement we wanted to see with Bernie Sanders or Andrew Yang. Things will go back to ‘normal’ as they were before Trump and we don’t want that. However, the view I am starting to hear expressed by people over 40, who have been paying attention to politics for a long time is that Joe Biden, while still being a puppet, is now our only hope to get rid of the most dangerous and destructive president we’ve ever had and that’s enough to vote for him. It seems that these people have watched the political scene for a long time and seeing someone like Donald Trump come into office has been quite a jarring experience. They have seen the outright terribleness that he brings to the national stage and conversation and would rather go back to what was normal, with all its potential good and bad, than risk another four years of Trump calling the shots. Both of these views have a high amount of validity and it seems to depend on how fresh you are to the political scene. More experienced voters see Trump as a huge threat to the very fabric of this country and any chance at sanity and going back to the existing atrocities and working from there is preferable. As a big Yang fan, I was a little shocked when he came out endorsing Biden before he was the official nominee. To be entirely transparent, I was pretty let down even though I was still trying to understand where he was coming from. I knew that he always planned on endorsing and campaigning for the democratic nominee but he had always said he would do so WHEN there was a nominee and for it to be Biden who seems completely opposite of Yang added to the shock. I completely understood the choice and thought process, although I still struggle with wanting to support someone like Joe Biden, however, I thought that this could be bad for his future chances with his original base of supporters who are strictly anti-establishment and could see his early endorsement as proving him a liar. Political tact aside though, as the months have gone on I’ve started to understand this choice more. When listening to one of Yang’s recent podcasts with Sam Harris, the person who I originally found Yang from and have been listening to since I was a teenager, the conversation on Trump between these two made the view very clear to me. After some personal conversations I’ve had with more seasoned voters this made things click for me: More experienced voters see Trump as a huge threat to the very fabric of this country and any chance at sanity and going back to the existing atrocities and working from there is preferable. I have been looking at this election very much like the last one, the first presidential election I was able to vote in. Last time we had a choice of the lesser of two evils, we all knew that, but being a new voter I didn’t quite know the evil that came with Clinton. Over the past few years, I have become more aware and educated at just how corrupt the Clinton world is, about the workings behind the scenes of the establishment. I am honestly ashamed to a high degree of supporting someone like that. I knew Trump was terrible, you could see it in the way he acts, talks, and treats people. His past, the fact that he is just a celebrity, and what he wanted to do. That is what led me to vote for Hillary. It was a ‘not Trump’ vote and at the time I considered myself a democrat. It’s not that I loved the idea of a Hillary presidency, after all, I voted for Bernie in the primaries and I’m proud to say I live in a state where he won. What it truly was, in retrospect, was being undereducated on how the political scene works. At just how deep corruption goes and what those in power do with that power. Because of my perspective on all of that and that this election is looking starkly similar, I do not want to go through that again; I don’t want to regret my vote. I think a lot of people are in the exact same boat. But then I take a step back and realize that I only have one election to compare this to. Not that this fact makes this view any less valid but perspective changes things. Unfortunately, because of those who failed to address the true cause of Trump’s election we got stuck with another Hillary. If you were paying attention to politics and voting for longer than I have you may not regret voting for Hillary even knowing and empathizing with everything that bothers me so much about my vote. It seems to me that the perspective is that Trump is truly a unique phenomenon and that has created a dynamic not necessarily typical in elections. While there are a lot of people who will still take the perspective that Hillary would have been great and the fact that Trump won was a fluke that could be attributed to the email problem, racism, or Russia’s interference the fact is that Trump’s victory was actually a ‘not establishment’ vote. He was the candidate for all of the people who are fed up with the way things work in the ‘swamp’, as Trump put it. Trump spoke to the people about issues they cared about, whether or not he correctly diagnosed them. Those of us who realize this were hoping that we could pick a nominee that would end up addressing those same issues but would go about them in a way that was more human. A candidate that would fix both the Trump problem and the establishment problem. Unfortunately, because of those who failed to address the true cause of Trump’s election we got stuck with another Hillary. Another establishment player. It’s this perspective that drives so many of us to not want to support either in this election, or, I’m sure, a lot of people to decide “Trump again it is”. But for those who, still knowing the true problem that brought about Trump, also see Trump as such a circumstance that isn’t acceptable, picking a lesser of two evils is something that they are willing to swallow, and think is the right choice, in hopes that the next time around we can start addressing the systemic problems. So the question becomes: Are they right to think the old normal is preferable and a better situation than another four years of Trump? Perhaps. The hope is that if we have someone on the left in power we, as ‘progressives’, can hope to make some change, even for the four years of Biden and then beyond, vs. having no chance at anything for the time of Trump. This has begun to make me reconsider Biden although it would be a 1-foot x 1-foot pill to swallow, however, I am still concerned that once in power the democratic establishment wouldn’t do anything of good consequence as their history would suggest. This is something to think about though; the real consideration at this point. We still have six months to make this decision but I will be thinking long and hard about this choice as November approaches and I hope this can bring some clarity and structure to the choice that lies before all of us. This One Thing Divides the Left on Biden was originally published in Extra Newsfeed on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.
