@Lash,
Lash wrote:
Would you consider voting for Biden? (I’m thinking he may appeal to maybe the same Republicans that Clinton attracted.)
No I wouldn't. He's an amiable person, but leadership requires more that that. Indeed a person who seeks the affection and approval of those he presumes to lead is, in my experience (and I have a lot of it) usually very destructive in a leadership role. There are a number of different approaches to successful leadership, but I don't think old Joe has any of them.
Moreover he really is excessively prone to gaffes (however, no worse than Trump's).
I believe the movement towards Biden is a confession by many establishment Democrats that they are neither comfortable with or confident of the crowd of neo socialists and advocates of group values that currently make up their declared candidates. How this will be resolved I don't claim to know. It seems to me that many Democrats are being carried away by their own enthusiasm for candidates who promise much, but who likely cannot be elected and, if they managed to win, will likely deliver very little, except general disappointment.
I recognize that you are enthusiastic for Sanders. I am not. He is a socialist who has never had a job outside of government. He studiously avoids explaining how his program of lavish government subsidies for education and medical care could be funded by the government or, perhaps more importantly, any discussion about their likely side effects. (For example; Government subsidized student loans have simply created an inflation in college tuition of about 10%/year. The net result is that University education is actually less affordable than it was, and students are graduating with debts they likely cannot repay. That's bad for everyone.