it's not incredibly complicated, just difficult, 'defeating' biden just means mobilizing against his worst excesses and his lobbyists excesses by connecting 'focus groups' on various matters (scotus control and constitutional reform, tax justice, correcting the fbi/doj on far right domestic terrorism, climate change, prison/police abolition, immigrant rights, Palestinian rights, income inequality) and electing AOC or 3rd party progressive archetype candidates to be the legislative instrument and representative bloc that presents bills for Biden to sign. You need insiders in the government at all levels and outside agitation to broadcast policy demands for inside bloc to then take up. It's seemingly better if progressive democrats do it to avoid Biden colluding with the republicans like Obama did.
There is no third party progressive option, anyone with rudimentary knowledge of the electoral landscape knows the Greens are a satellite of the GOP. There's been a recent initiative undertaken by literally every dipshit to blame for sabotaging Sanders' campaign (and subsequently his hopes for a Cabinet position), ie Ryan Knight, Brie Gray, Nina Turner, and Sirota. It's not a great look when the politician whose campaign you worked for calls you irresponsible.
it's amazing how boo can channel all this great activity theyve supposedly done into a case for biden, when every anti-fa group I know (actual portlander here) has zero hopes for biden and knows that the fascists are literally going nowhere just because biden gets elected. in fact, the alienation that neoliberal policy delivers will foment the proliferation of far-right fascist orgs. pulling out the farright weeds is not going to lead the liberals to end their wars, meaningfully address climate change, or deliver a socio-economic policy agenda that breeds a stable society.
Congratulations on living in Portland, I don't know what antifascist structures you know but I know for a fact that legit activists aren't pussyfooting around third-party bullshit. It's also incredibly fucking lazy to attribute growth of the far-right to economic alienation. Literally anyone involved in counterextremism will tell you that most people who get involved in terrorism or extremist movements are upper-middle class. There is no data whatsoever to support this idea of "neoliberal alienation" and yet that hasn't stopped people with no idea what they're talking about from asserting otherwise. Weird thing is that just yesterdays morning I saw a couple researchers taking the piss out of a liberal pundit for implying the same thing over the property of one of the Whitmer plot suspects.
Also yeah, "pulling out the weeds" will significantly reduce incentives for conflict on the global stage. Part of the issue was that Gaddafi and Assad were fucking sponsoring foreign fascists for decades. Both even hired escaped Nazis, like Otto Skorzeny and Alois Brunner.
somehow raikoulover and boo have this weird idea that defeating biden means defeating him electorally ("in 2020"), which is just pure rhetorical derailment from the substantive matters that defeating Biden's neoliberalism involves. Under Obama, many self-described progressives pinned their hopes on supporting Obama while he implemented wall street's agendas, maintained the bush jr status quo and got cowed by the upsurge in far-right organizing. Liberals fall asleep/fall in love with any charismatic leader that can make a good sound byte and then they wonder how Trump can come along and have an authoritarian apparatus to amplify from day 1. Defeating Biden involves the opposite response, continuing to agitate and mobilize just as hard or harder under Biden as Trump because ultimately the half-baked 'solutions' neoliberal politicians come up with on their own, left to their lobbyists, paves the way for the mainstreaming of authoritarianism. This is not going to be easy at all but thats no excuse not to grapple with the reality of the situation by coping out and being like 'it's all gonna become different by Biden magic, lets just keep winning midterms'.
I feel like you don't really understand what neoliberalism is, because you seem to think of it as some immutable characteristic of Biden and not a dated ideology that hasn't been relevant in the past four years. A lot of this paragraph is just ahistorical, you being mad over Obama not being a secret Bolshevik who fulfills whatever arbitrary policy demands you have doesn't change the fact that Obama
I'm not interested in twiddling my thumbs and busy work meant to stall societal collapse by buying a few more weeks here, another month there. A domestic terror cell busted here, while 10 more craftier cells pop up there. I actually want humanity to survive the complete degeneration we are currently on a path towards.
This last statement alone almost makes me inclined to not take your entire post seriously. Denigrating antifascism as an irrelevant game of whack-a-mole with no presentation of an alternative is little more than obnoxious grandstanding, and betrays your inability to grasp the gravity of the current situation. In the last days of the Weimar Republic, you would have been inactive but criticising antifascists for not upholding random policy positions as the SA began holding members of the Reichstag hostage. Your single-sentence critique is even more absurd to someone aware of how the transnational far-right is completely dependent on oil money, pretty much regardless of location. The Russian Federation today is the principal sponsor of neo-Nazi and neofascist entities around the world. It's basically a gas station with nukes, run by a guy whose chief ideologist thinks Adolf Hitler was a "force for civilisation"
