The group RootsAction is backing the “safe state” strategy as espoused by RootsAction — are out the window and that anyone who wants to stop Trump must vote for Biden no matter where they live.
They may criticize Biden in some ways, but they are planning on voting for him even though they are in a “safe state” like New York and they espouse beliefs that are far more in line with Howie Hawkins, the Green Party candidate.
I will be writing a crit of the “safe state” strategy and get into some finer points of all this, but it seems worthwhile to point out how wrong this complete non-strategy is.
Are Henwood and Naureckas not aware that margin doesn’t count for anything? Clinton won by 3 million votes in 2016. It meant nothing.
This is at best driven by blind Trump hatred — one of the many manifestations of Trump Derangement Syndrome — that seeks to somehow “humiliate” Trump on Election Day.
In fact, it humiliates the people who are engaging in such a non strategy. They will pump up Biden and all his crimes even as he moves further and further to the right — and deflate any vestige of Greens or other parties to the left of Biden. And then, they seem to claim that they will somehow hold Biden accountable to the policies they profess as they vote against candidates who agree with those policies. It’s virtually a form of self-disenfranchisement.