We all can scream, hollar, bitch, and moan til the cows come home. But unless every eligible voter get out and VOTE BLUE UP & DOWN THE FUCKING BALLOT, we are all going to be FUCKED.

The Supreme Court ruled this year in Chiafolo vs Washington that a state may enforce an elector's pledge to support his party's nominee -- and therefore the state voter's choice -- for President.

Kevin Brown maintains this means faithless electors are no more.

I don't interpret the ruling quite the same way. But I am not a lawyer and what I think doesn't count. This article tallies with my view though:

Namely, "If the court has its way, there will be no risk of a faithless elector being a wild card in this year's election. Unfortunately, it is not so simple. The justices’ ruling permits states to prevent faithless electors, but it does not require that they do so."

I agree with Chris about this:

The Democrats had two broad strategies they could have pursued this year:

1.  nominate a moderate candidate and attempt to reclaim the swing state Obama voters who switched to Trump in 2016.

2.  nominate a progressive candidate and attempt to generate sufficient excitement to attract the votes of progressives who didn't vote in 2016.

The problem is they've tried to do both of these at the same time, and they're failing at both. 

Biden is historically a moderate, but he's characterized himself as a transitional candidate, so a lot of people see this as Trump v. Harris.  Harris is neither moderate nor charismatic.  The prospect of a Harris presidency will not win over swing voters.

On top of that, Biden made a lot of concessions to the Sanders campaign, prompting Sanders to speculate that Biden will be the most progressive president in history.  But now Biden is walking those concessions back, and progressives are feeling betrayed again.  

With Trump, voters know exactly what they are getting, and even if they don't like his persona, that gives him an advantage.  One of the biggest thing that hurt Clinton is the trust factor.  Biden is creating that same type of problem for himself.  

As far as "rogue electors" go, the Supreme Court only said that states have the authority to force electors to obey state laws regarding how they are supposed to vote.  Some states don't have laws that address this.  And even if they do, the court's decision doesn't mandate that states enforce the law.  So the case is a step in the direction of eliminating rogue electors, but its far from a done deal.

Two questions: 

1) What specific concessions did Biden make that he's walked back, and to which specific degrees?

2) When do progressives NOT feel betrayed?  It's like the default mode.

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Yes, this is how I understand it as well.

Maybe when the establishment stops using a progressive agenda for a bait and switch tactic to make progressive voters think they matter?

All right, admittedly, if I ask a snarky, general question I can only expect to get a snarky, general answer.  But I think (going back to my first question) that a lot of that is based on some emotional truth and not the factual record, specifically with Biden.  If there's some real Bernie policy that Biden fully endorsed, fully adopted, then rejected (even in part), I will stand corrected.

There was a similar weird logic in 2016, where even though Hillary had been pushed significantly left on policy issues by the Bernie revolution, the further left were absolutely convinced that it was all lies and she wasn't going to be true to her word.  We of course won't know, because she didn't take office, but I tend to think that she would have at least made a good faith effort to push through the policies to which she'd committed herself.

And an aside: more power to Bernie for controlling the terms of the conversation to a degree that only people who completely endorse his solutions can be considered 'progressive'.  I sure was surprised when I was told I wasn't one, but what a relief to be relieved of that burden (that's snark, again).

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Still maintain it and there's nothing you can say that will change my mind about it.  Period.