jinjonatorx:

I cannot stop thinking about the irrevocable damage that liberals supporting Biden is going to do to the Me Too movement. One of the right’s favorite strategies for winning people over is the narrative of liberal hypocrisy, and everyone who supported Biden has just handed them the easiest possible win, and the worst thing is: we won’t even be able to say they’re wrong. Biden supporters have become so immersed in their echo chamber of acting like Bernie and his supporters are their ultimate enemy, to the point where they literally don’t know how to respond to criticism with anything other than “you bernie supporters better be willing to suck it up and vote for biden in november!”, and I don’t think they fully understand yet how that response is no longer going to be an applicable defense. Because when people, all across the political spectrum, start asking “you condemned Trump for sexual assault. you condemned Kavanaugh for sexual assault. why are you supporting Biden then? why are you asking me to support Biden? why is rape wrong and unforgivable when committed by Republicans, but we have to ignore it when it’s committed by a Democrat?”… when people start asking that, whining about “Bernie Bros” isn’t going to be a sufficient defense. There will be no moral high-ground in finger-wagging about non-voters.

Because here’s the plain fact: liberals have put themselves (and the rest of us, for that matter) in a position where they will be literally unable to advocate for Biden without becoming the exact kind of self-serving hypocrites the right always accused them of being. For many years to come, all conservatives will have to do is point to Biden as proof that liberals only care about rape when it’s committed by their political enemies, but they’re willing to ignore it in order to win and get the policies they prefer (which, for the record, Trump & Kavanaugh supporters also chose to ignore rape in order to get their preferred policies; that’s the company you now keep; you can no longer claim to be different from them).

So to everyone who chose to support Biden instead of Bernie, congratulations: you not only cost us the election, but you’ve dealt a massive blow to the Me Too movement from which we may not be able to recover. And before you get huffy and keep parroting the same talking point about “but we still need to vote for him! his policies are better than Trump’s!”, you need to fully understand and internalize this fact: you saying that is irrefutable proof that you only cared about rape when you disagreed with the person’s politics, and that you’ve always been willing to ignore or downplay rape when it’s someone you like more. If you supported Biden over Bernie, this is something that you will have to live with for the rest of your life. You will never be able to tell yourself that you’re any different than the rape apologists you condemn. You had a choice between someone who was a rapist and someone who wasn’t, and you chose the rapist. And now you’re forcing the rest of us to do the same.