![](https://beehaw.org/pictrs/image/d879dc94-32de-48fc-a1ed-0db21cbbbc00.png)
![](https://beehaw.org/pictrs/image/cd7879c3-cd1c-4108-806e-f9ca45e9b22a.png)
This was the right decision in 2023. Making it now, a month before the DNC, means they have completely circumvented the primary elections and robbed voters of their chance to select the nominee. We’ve gone from millions of people having a voice in the nomination process, to a group of less than ten thousand, and that is disenfranchisement on a massive scale.
Don’t get me wrong, I would vote for a dead raccoon before I’d vote for Trump. But we deserve better than to have Trump’s opponent hand-picked on our behalf like this. I’ll vote for whoever that is, but we should absolutely give the Democrats hell once this is all over. The duopoly in our elections needs to end, if they can’t be trusted to honor the basic fundamentals of the system.
As the article points out, the original lyric from American Idiot is, “I’m not a part of a redneck agenda.” They changed it to, “I’m not a part of a MAGA agenda.”
…Can this even be considered a significant change? It’s more like a modernization of the original language. Whose agenda did they think Green Day was previously referring-- oh, right. They probably didn’t do any research, did they? It’s just manufactured outrage, so they can pretend that the left is just as vile as they are.