 Well, there is a very very big election taking place tomorrow as everybody knows who's watching this video and Even though we may not necessarily know the results of the election tomorrow night We still will be learning very soon who our next president will be So I wanted to take some time to share what we can expect depending on the result So if it is the case that Joe Biden emerges victorious and he defeats Donald Trump I think that all of us owe it to ourselves To just breathe a long sigh of relief knowing that we got Donald Trump out of power Now he may go very loudly and whine about it He may be insufferable for a couple of months, but so long as we got that victory His time is limited. That's a good feeling and there hasn't been much to be hopeful about as of late But we can at least Know that he will be going very soon and the Trump era will be coming to an end having said that though The end of Donald Trump's presidency does not necessarily mean that Trump is um, it's going to go away In fact, I think it could be with us for quite some time And if Joe Biden does not take substantial action during these next four years That I think it's a guarantee that we're gonna see someone emerge in the future Who is much worse than Donald Trump? So here's what I say to everyone if Joe Biden is elected The left liberals and Democratic Party loyalists people who are not Republicans But don't necessarily like the Democratic Party independence now is not the time for brunch Yes, it is the case that Joe Biden is not Donald Trump He will be better than Donald Trump not do as much damage as Donald Trump But acknowledge that Joe Biden is not your friend He is your political enemy and we must resist him Make sure we apply non-stop pressure on him and make his life a living hell because guess what? The Democratic Party establishment moved heaven and earth to make sure that Bernie Sanders was defeated and we got anyone But Bernie and Joe Biden happened to be the person who has resisted change at a time When our country and planet needs change more than ever now Understand it is going to be almost impossible to push Joe Biden left. He is going to resist change He's going to embrace corporatism. I wouldn't be surprised if he stacked his cabinet with Wall Street executives Having said that though, that doesn't mean we don't try to pressure him and try to move him left And where the left is going to have any I think sway is Maybe stopping him from doing the most harmful things because remember when Obama was in power He got away with doing a lot of terrible things because the media applied no pressure to him He faced zero scrutiny and let the Republicans basically run rough shot on him while he just sat back and pretended as if he was hopeless In the situation when we know now that that's not necessarily true He didn't do a lot of things because he is a moderate Republican. That's how he described himself So we have no reason to just wait and give Joe Biden a chance if he's lucky enough to be elected We have to immediately make his life a living hell Unless he actually is willing to listen to the left. Do I think that's gonna happen? Not too optimistic about that because guess what? We have an extensive record that we can look at with regard to Joe Biden and see exactly how he's going to govern So if the left uses this time to build our coalition make sure we Increase our political power then we can actually make some really good use of this next four years It's not a guarantee that fascism has gone forever Trumpian politics will probably remain a thing. It will be pretty prevalent within the 2024 at primary So we have to make sure that we stop that from happening. How do we stop that from happening? We try to Pressure the Democratic Party as hard as it may be To do at least some things to materially improve people's lives and if Joe Biden can do just a little bit He can stop a future disaster now What I am anticipating is Joe Biden to basically Do some good things via executive order Reinstate the DACA program right try to get us back into the Paris climate Accord Try to do something with regard to the Iran nuclear deal some things that of course are Indisputably good objectively good The problem is that a lot of the things that are good that he wants to do can likely be undone By the next president assuming that he just kind of like doesn't make any strong legislative pushes and does a lot of things via executive order But he can do a few good things. He can mandate masks Nationally and make testing for COVID-19 widely available so that way we can purchase them ourselves online or at grocery stores This would be huge in containing the spread of the virus He may capitalize on the opportunity to raise the minimum wage and he says he supports $15 an hour Let's see if he holds strong. I have a feeling that if Democrats even try to raise the minimum wage They won't opt for 15. They'd probably opt for 12 instead We'll see what happens there, you know, I think that he's probably going to take executive action to expand health care where he can I don't know that he's actually going to try to tackle health care reform legislatively Unless it is in fact overturned by the Supreme Court the ACA that is The problem with this is you know You can't just put another band-aid on the situation and hope that that fixes all of the problems And if he does opt for health care reform He says that he supports a public option But when he describes a public option at the presidential debates, it doesn't really sound like a public option So my expectations are very very low for Joe Biden Sure, he adopted, you know, some of Bernie Sanders elements with regard to climate change in spoke with the Sunrise movement Does that mean that when push comes to shove when corporate interests are in his ears? He's going to adopt that exact plan. I Doubted so listen Hope for the best try to do what we can Push him as much as we possibly can to do good to mitigate the damage that he will likely cause But go into this clear-eyed go into this not delusional as we were in 2008 in 2012 don't expect Joe Biden to be your ally. Yes He's better than Trump. We used him as a tool to oust Donald Trump from power but He is not our political ally He has an agenda that is antithetical to what most of the left wants He is a neoliberal free market capitalist when we see capitalism destroying our planet wreaking havoc on our communities So he's got to take action And so, you know, I don't necessarily know what to expect with Joe Biden Him and the Democratic Party assuming they're able to take back the Senate have a very short window two years to act Until they either lose the Senate or the House We have to assume that that's all that they got if they do not take action enough action to actually Improve people's conditions materially Then they are paving the way from war dissatisfaction and as a result radicalization that will lead to the success of someone like that Gates or Tom Cotton in 2024 who I think is worse than Donald Trump. They may not have mean tweets They may not be as bombastic and narcissistic But they are real fascists and if they get power that will be extremely dangerous. They will silence their opposition They will consolidate power. They will suppress voters So Democrats have to act and it is incumbent on us to pressure them But more importantly use this time to educate people Don't let everyone go to brunch and go to sleep. Let them acknowledge that the Democratic Party Isn't meeting our expectations and not meeting their expectations. We support Medicare for all. Why aren't we getting that? We support a legalization of marijuana Why aren't we getting that so we'll see but I want people to not Delude themselves into thinking that Joe Biden is their friend. Yes We voted for him in large part to oust Donald Trump, but nobody is pro-Biden. They're just anti-Trump I don't think I've ever ever met anyone who's like pro-Joe Biden. Everybody's just voting for him to stop Donald Trump So I mean at the end of the day even though Joe Biden is going to resist change We have to acknowledge that we fight no matter what Bully him pressure him the minute he gains power on day one the minute. He's sworn in I don't care about celebrations get to work. We've got things that you need to do to stop Multiple crises from getting worse so make it happen