I used to think of myself as a strong liberal. But reality is not like that. Now I’m something else.
[thread]

2/ That’s based on what general policy outcomes I would consider ideal if we had unlimited support and resources. In a better world I would have supported Bernie Sanders.

3/ The more time I spent on “liberal” news sites, the more I came to realize that preaching for progress was meaningless if you refused to help actually get anything done.
If outrage was your goal, progress was not.

4/ If all you want to do is rage sanctimoniously abt how much better you would run things if only “the establishment” didn’t hold you down, you aren’t really progressive—you‘re a charlatan, profiting off your own hypocrisy. Charlatans see offense where none exists, right or left.

5/ Policywise, my opinions haven’t changed. I don’t personally believe in anything different than I did before.
But what has become so much clearer now is the difference between what is *possible* in this country, in this moment, and what isn’t.

6/ The great epiphany of my life was the realization that the hard left and the hard right were both motivated by the same thing—rather than achieve their purported societal objectives, they instead *wished* for very specific outcomes...at any cost, but paid by *everyone else*.

7/ What I want more than any policy objective—more than any specific utopian dream—is to help build a better world, regardless of what it costs me personally.
I care, I will listen, and I want to help solve our society’s problems.

8/ In a strange way, I’m now considered centrist or moderate by my peers—despite there being nothing “moderate” or “soft” about my beliefs.
I am the same I always was, but at the same time no longer where I was before.
This is what it means to be a true progressive.

9/ A progressive is above all, a problem solver. This understanding is what found me audience with notable activists @Alyssa_Milano and @joncoopertweets.
They are not mere “liberals”. They are true progressive leaders.

10/ (please don’t interpret their mentions as any kind of boast abt myself. I never sought their attention, bc I never believed I was important enough to make a difference. They showed me I may have more spirit to share w the world than I realized, and I’m honored to know them)

11/ The reason I’ve been drawn to @JoeBiden from the beginning is not only the man he is. It’s the world he represents.
He represents the unifying, selfless leadership we long for as good people on either side, left or right. He is who we need in this moment.

12/12 For all of us, Joe Biden is not a return to the past. He is quite literally our hope for the future of our country.
As we join together to once again wage America’s eternal struggle for what is right in this world, only one outcome awaits us in November—victory! #Biden2020