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🗓️ 22 July 2020
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0:00.0 | In the same way that will you vote for Bloomberg was the wrong question if our interest is |
0:05.3 | bettering our democracy. |
0:07.1 | I would answer that you should reframe it this way. |
0:10.7 | Instead of framing it as if you don't vote for Joe Biden, Trump will win. |
0:15.7 | You should frame it as if Joe Biden doesn't do the bare minimum, which is easy and it's able for him to do, |
0:23.0 | he will cause Donald Trump to win. |
0:25.6 | And he shouldn't want that blood on his hands. |
0:28.2 | And if Joe Biden wants to be the most electable candidate, if Joe Biden wants to get votes |
0:31.9 | and turn out Americans and get the kind of volunteer support that Bernie Sanders had, |
0:36.4 | he should do the right thing. |
0:37.6 | And otherwise, he is going to have to own up to that enormous responsibility. |
0:41.5 | I think that's a really important thing that is left out of these discussions a lot of the time |
0:45.9 | is that implicitly, that framing, the framing that voters who refuse to vote for Joe Biden, |
0:56.2 | no matter what, even if he boils babies or whatever, are causing Donald Trump's loss. And it's taking responsibility off of the Democratic |
1:02.8 | Party for having to get people's votes. And it is a convenient way to avoid the Democratic Party |
1:10.8 | being responsible for its own failures at the ballot box. |
1:14.8 | And when we look at Ralph Nader in 2000, a lot of people say, well, oh, Ralph Nader and his voters |
1:20.0 | spoiled the election. But, I mean, it is just as valid a way to frame it to say that Al Gore was incapable of keeping people within the |
1:31.7 | Democratic Party. And he so turned off and failed to inspire a large swath of voters that they |
1:38.3 | literally fled the party even knowing what the consequences of that could have been. And when you blame the voters, really, they're not, a lot of voters, like, we might have this |
1:50.0 | discussion about who we're going to vote for, but in order to move the... |
1:55.0 | Like, it's convenient to blame the voters, but if you're actually going, if your actual interest |
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