The 2020 Democratic Ticket for…‘Relief’

On Tuesday, August 11, 2020, it became official: Joe Biden chose Kamala Harris to be his 2020 vice-presidential running mate on the Democratic ticket.

Last week was the 2020 Democratic National Convention.

I did not watch the convention.

I did not timely write and publish my reaction to Biden selecting Harris.

Until now.

This blog topic is my belated reaction. (And, frankly, my delay is appropriate.) 

I may surprise readers.

I may not.

My reaction is…relief.

I am relieved the 2020 Democratic ticket will be Joe Biden, of Delaware, and Kamala Harris, of California, and I will explain why.

My last vote for the Democrats, in a general election, was the 2014 midterm elections. That was during the presidency of Democrat Barack Obama with the Republicans having won that year a majority-control pickup of the United States Senate.

I denied the Democrats after the DNC rigged the presidential primaries for Hillary Clinton in 2016.

I denied the Democrats after they likewise shoved more corporate Democrats in the primaries and, eventually, the general in the 2018 midterm elections. (They knew, based on historical voting pattern, they would be the party to win the overall gains in the midterm elections of 2018 off Republican incumbent U.S. president Donald Trump.)

Here in 2020, I will once again deny the Democrats even while they are favored to win—thanks to COVID–19—pickups for both U.S. President and U.S. Senate. 

Since 2016, the masks have come off the faces of the Democratic Party. It has also come off the faces of many of their self-identified Democratic voters. And, in its current form, I will not vote for Team Blue. I will not vote for it because they are not on the left, are not moderate, and are actually right-wing. 

I do not self-identify with the Democratic Party. I do not self-identify with either major U.S. political party. To self-identify means to take that on—that is, as a self-identified Republican or a self-identified Democrat—as part of one’s identity. It is pride for many who do self-identify. They are very proud. But, the funny thing is, in elections—especially U.S. President—won by one’s preferred party, the one question that stumps a Loyal Republican or Loyal Democrat is,“What, to be specific, did you win?” No matter the words they use, that Loyal Republican’s or Loyal Democrat’s answer—that one’s team color has the presidency (while the other political party does not)—is all they have. 

This ticket—Biden and Harris—is one by and for the rulers of the Democratic Party who are among the oligarchs. Those involved intend to make sure, as they have for at least four decade, no real progressive (at least by U.S. standards)—not anyone who can take the country truly to the left (again, by U.S. standards) on economics and on a single payer healthcare system and on the Military Industrial Complex—will reach meaningful power. That is designed to prevent nomination to the higher and/or highest levels of office for anyone who they consider a threat. Biden/Harris is a Dream Ticket for the oligarchs and those who serve them under the banner of the Democratic Party. 

It is very good, after my previous willingness to vote for them in general elections, to be able to move past this point and consider myself divorced from the Democratic Party. It is a strong feeling of…relief.

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Note to Readers: The next blog topic will be published Friday, August 28, 2020, at 06:00 a.m. ET. I will also have a “Note to Readers” regarding Progressives Chat.