Thread by @AlexandraErin

So here's my pitch to Warren voters who are worried about Sanders's electability. It's not aimed at other objections. It's not an all-encompassing argument.

But if electability is a myth, it's a myth. I didn't think it existed when I was planning to vote for her...

https://twitter.com/AlexandraErin/status/1235974428368031745

...and so I don't think it suddenly came into being for him when she dropped out.

I know this is not the only concern with Bernie, but a number of other ones at least shade into it. We make things easier for the future leaders like Warren by still fighting against them now.

Sometimes the answer to "Better things aren't possible." isn't "Better things are possible." but "Better things could be possible." I know we have to push to get anybody in the White House and whoever they are we'll have to keep pushing.

I see Bernie as the bigger push candidate

There are pluses to Biden like down ballot effects, especially if the turnout trends from Super Tuesday continue. The fight does not begin and end with the presidency, which is why I will #VoteBlueNoMatterWho

(So glad Bloomberg's out, though.)

I want to push for better things to be possible at every opportunity I have, though, and for what my vote is worth, I see voting for Bernie to be the thing that pushes the window the possible to the left, furthest and fastest.

He's electable if we vote for him.

And if we push and he doesn't win the nomination, we'll have changed the tone and tenor of the national conversation. The center itself will have shifted, taking both well-meaning and opportunistic centrists with it.

Outside of something like a primary between two people who aren't your first choice, I am absolutely against the idea of "voting to send a message", like the people who voted for Brexit because they were told it would never happen and they wanted to show they were fed up.

I'm not saying "Let's all vote for Bernie! He'll never win, but then Joe Biden will see the people want progress!"

I'm addressing people who see two candidates but they don't know who they would prefer as president, or they don't like either of them, but need one.

In order to get Trump out of the White House without a civil war that will kill a lot of the most vulnerable among us, we've got to send one of these two guys to the White House. None of us get to pick which one, and yet all of us do. We each have at most one vote.

So under the assumption that there are people out there who would vote for either of them for president, aren't really super sold on voting for either of them in the primary... I pose this question: what message can you send with your vote?

You can vote for Biden to try to send the message that online abuse is not something to shrug off or that compromise and coalition building within the system matter, and those are important messages, but I question if they would be heard from a primary vote.

If Biden wins this nomination handily, I don't think they're going to hear anything except that tried and true business as usual return to normalcy stuff and reconciliation with the right is what appeal to Democratic voters. I really don't.

But every vote for Bernie Sander does send a louder, clearer message that business as usual is not good enough, that the country is swinging left and it's not going to stop doing so anytime soon.

Maybe that message culminates in Bernie taking the nomination, in which case you know, the stuff you don't love about him and his campaign have to be dealt with. (Same as if Biden wins.) But it also moves things leftwards.

This is where I am: a vote for Bernie moves the party and the conversation and the country to the left, even if Biden wins. And that's my goal. Progress, even if it's just progress towards progress, changing the limits of what is possible one inch at a time.