If you truly believed that Trump is an existential threat to our nation and that we're all going to die if we don't vote Biden, then being at the very least civil to leftists and progressives and honestly making genuine policy concessions would be a small price to pay.

But somehow, the price you're willing to pay is always in concessions to the right. If you genuinely need our vote then you should be trying to earn it... but either you believe you don't, you believe that moving leftward is worse than Trump, or that badgering on Twitter works.

If it's the first, you have no room for negotiations from us because you're coming here with nothing. If it's the second, well, so much for existential threats. And if it's the third, then there's no room for complaints when people shout about M4A or college debt forgiveness.

Listen, I'm in California and my vote for president isn't going to matter. If California is lost to Trump you were already screwed. But let's get real for a minute. If you're going to tell me that I can push Biden leftward once he's in office... why on Earth should I believe it?

What possible reason would he have to do so? He knows he has our votes regardless of what he does. You can say "change takes time" but I'm not a child. Why would any of the Democrats want to change if they don't have to?

After another 20 years of chiding and being told to be pragmatic and patient I'll be 60 and the world will be on fire and the Republicans will still be a threat so we need to stay pragmatic and not offer anything that people might want to believe in.

In which case I guess I should regret that Biden didn't win because if he had I might've gotten Medicare at 60. Not that my vote would've made any difference.