Socialists hate Joe Biden. Hell, they even hate Elizabeth Warren. They won’t settle for anyone to the right of Bernie Sanders. Some of them are prepared to stay home, or vote for third party candidates, because they are playing the long game. In their eyes, there is no meaningful difference between Trump and Biden, and Trump is their most effective recruiter, so why vote for Biden?
The virus is the answer why. The long game consists of an infinite number of short games. If you don’t survive the present, discussions about the future are meaningless. A socialist ash heap is just an ash heap with a red flag.
My advice to them is, vote as if your life depends on it, because . . . it does.