• megopie@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    4 months ago

    Realistically, I’m not crazy about Biden, but if we wanted someone better we should have held primaries. Changing now is short sighted and won’t get us a more progressive candidate.

    All we’ll get now is someone further to the right of Biden. It won’t be the electorate choosing a new Democratic nominee, it will be party insiders who choose someone even more out of touch than Biden.

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      4 months ago

      but if we wanted someone better we should have held primaries.

      Bruh …

      Biden and the DNC is why we didn’t have a primary…

      They’re the ones that prevented the primary. They’re the ones that decide if it’s Biden. And they’re the ones that would get to replace him.

      They’re the fucking problem, why act like voters have any say in the process?

    • Match!!@pawb.social
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      4 months ago

      oh my god, you’re right! i totally forgot to schedule the primaries this year, sorry!

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      4 months ago

      Do you think “we” as voters didn’t want a primary? It’s party insiders the whole way. And if you vote for Biden anyways, you’re saying “yeah, i liked how this worked just fine.” DNC screwed bernie twice, and RFK, Marianne, and Dean this time. Regardless of who you would back ultimately, the DNC removes all democracy from the process then says they’re saving democracy.

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      4 months ago

      should have held primaries.

      … cheerfully overlooking the fact that saying “we thought this was the guy 4 years ago but this other guy is definitely the one” has never gone well EVER?

      It went so bad in 68, that we got Nixon.

      If our goal this time around is “save democracy by not electing Trump”, is it fun to risk certain loss by switching?