For Joe Biden.. and all those who support him.. or are thinking about it

[Celerity]

33. Beyond that, if we want more progressives elected, we have to systematically undue the decades

of RW Rethug partisan gerrymandering that has created so so many artificially produced swing/pink/purple/red districts where is very hard for a prog to win. Now that the SCOTUS has been taken over by the RW and has just ruled again that partisan gerrymandering is legal (what a disastrous decision!) then pretty much the only way to do this is at state level by winning back the majority of the state legislative bodies. The 2020 state legislative body elections are SO key, as 2020 is not only a POTUS election and federal and state election year, but also a CENSUS year, and the states will draw new maps based off it that will potentially fuck us for a another 10 years.

The problem is that in the already Rethug-controlled states, those bodies not only gerrymander for the House elections at federal level, but they gerrymander as well for their very own bodies. It is as epic clusterfuck that has shifted the US electoral map and overall philosophical bent of the reps and senators at both federal and state level so far to the right that even moderate, centrist and Blue dog types and even many centre-left US DEMOCRATS (state reps, senators, federal reps and senators) would be on the rightward edge of many, many major centre right European parties. Even some of the 'far right' parties (mostly the ones who are populist and anti-immigration) are streets ahead of the US Democrats as a whole in terms of healthcare system platforms, etc etc.

Most all of the mainstream right-wing parties in most all of the advanced world would never dream (other than their most RW parts) of dismantling their universal healthcare schemes or taking away free or ultra low cost uni systems and instituting a S style system laden with 1.7 trillion USD in student debt (population-adjust of course), etc etc.

Hell, Warren would be (IF she kept her exact same stances she holds now) considered centre-right on many things. Bernie would be a completely bog standard, milquetoast social democrat (centre left), and actual socialists parties would NEVER let him in, unless he radically changed many of his stances much farther to the left. We (the US) live (I have mostly lived in the UK and the EU, and I am in the EU now, but have spent a few years back (where I was born and left to London as a baby) in Los Angeles) in such a SKEWED system.

For example, if someone tells you that massive numbers (I have even seen the outright insane claim of a majority) of Europeans, Aussies, Canadians, etc would swap their healthcare systems for the US model, well that person is, to be polite, fucking lying to your face. It is complete bollocks, period, end of story. The US political system (and many other parts of the overall socio-economic and cultural spheres) are utterly broken at a multiplicity of levels, including the basic definitions and actions of what is left and what is right, as well as the capture of the rule of law by not just Rumpian ultra-gaslighting and destruction of truth, but also by the corporatisation and buying of all things political.

I am nothing if not a very pragmatic 23 year old (my UK and EU politics are far to the left of my US politics (especially when viewed through the tragically skewed American political prism), simply due to the limited possibilities in the American system atm. Again this superstructure of limitation for US progressivism comes from the reasons listed above (and others too, that are beyond the scope of this already far too long reply) and, to bring it full circle and to a close, I also strive to be a realist, thus my outright lack of hope for (anytime soon) a working majority of 'progressives' in Congress and at a majority of state levels as well.