I have been drawn to the vision & electricity of @ewarren and the policy record of @MikeBloomberg on guns/climate. But I voted today for @JoeBiden. Here’s why:
The foundations of a progressive policy platform are empathy and decency, which @JoeBiden embodies to a truly rare extent. These qualities are also the antithesis of the narcissism and cruelty of @realDonaldTrump. The contrast will be stark.
During the @BarackObama admin, I was stunned to learn something @JoeBiden never advertised: when he meets someone who’s suffered great personal loss, he gives them his personal cell #. “If you feel low & have no place to turn, call me,” he says. Grieving strangers cld call @VP.
People see themselves in @JoeBiden and he practices what his dad preached to him: “Joey, nobody’s better than you and you’re better than nobody.” Biden’s reflexive devotion to dignity and equality are what caused him to lead the Obama admin to the right place on same-sex marriage
@JoeBiden understands what @SherrodBrown calls the “dignity of work.” When people lose their jobs, when they can’t earn a living wage, when nothing they do allows them to make ends meet, that is a violation of something primal: a desire for agency, self-sufficiency and dignity.
When his beloved son Beau served in Iraq, @JoeBiden says he saw what the poet John Milton meant when he wrote, “They also serve who only stand and wait.” The human stakes of foreign policy decision making are visceral to Biden. His connection w/ military families is personal.
In the campaign b4 #SouthCarolina, @JoeBiden maybe overrelied on the arg that he had already negotiated w/ world leaders & wd have them on speed dial on Day1. But #coronavirus reminds us of the indispensability of 1) experience and 2) being able to galvanize global cooperation
Much more to say, but I must mention @DrBiden who could have done anything with her life, but chose to teach at community college. She will make one hell of a First Lady.
