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We have 2 options.
Make things better or make things worse.
It's really that simple, guy.
And btw, the DNC held primaries every election. 2024, 2020, 2016. Among the candidates in 2016 and 2020 were Bernie Sanders, who consistently lost. I think more people should participate in primaries, but it's a false claim to say they "ratfucked candidates" that people wanted. People chose Biden. People chose Clinton.
No, Bernie got done dirty in the primary process each time, super delegates, getting people like Buttigieg to drop out for promises of favors - but it’s convenient there wasn’t a primary in 2024 so they could just pick someone else for you openly.
See, there's serious doubt for me in both cases that Biden and Clinton were really the people's choice because the party either overtly or quietly kept their thumb on the scale. I can't find the article anymore, but whoever took over after Debbie Schultz basically found that the HRC campaign was effectively in charge of the DNC during the 2016 primary. I don't know about you, but I don't consider that a level playing field at all. Then, in '20, I found it really, really sketchy how Biden won what, two, three states? And all the other candidates with one or two wins suddenly pulled out and pledged all of their delegates for Biden basically at the same time. Could've been that Biden was really that cool, but I've always had doubts about that.
It wasn't exactly a close race. You'd be accusing the DNC of fabricating Millions of ballots. On Super Tuesday, Biden swept races across the nation, a lot more than one or two.
Well, no, not of fabricating ballots. I said I think they had a thumb on the scales, that neither race was fair, not that the votes were fake. So, it's more like I'm accusing them of giving their candidate of choice significant advantages over the others, which is not something you could call a fair race.
TBH they didn't even need to include third parties on their ballots from the start. They had all the power in the world to Exclude Bernie. If they were that opposed then why would they even risk it?
Unfair primaries are the onion, and too damn many people took a bite.
Nah, miss me with that shit. The way super delegates were set up in the '16 primary was total crap, I remember that the media had basically called it for Hillary on almost day 1 of the primary season because every superdelegate announced (before their state primary!) that they were going for Hillary. I think that the HRC campaign really thought they were going to fold in all of the Bernie voters' votes, money, and energy.
Delegation process aside, millions more people still chose the winners.
I mean, I don't put too much stock in that because there's a bandwagon effect to voting. If people perceived that Hillary or Biden is already the winner, as the media portrayed, then folks are more likely to vote for them. I think a fair election would have seen 2020's primary looking much more like the 2016 Republican primary, where it was hardly a foregone conclusion that Trump would win.
In 2016 the four elections before super Tuesday. One had Bernie win New Hampshire with 60% for 15 delegates and Hillary 9 delegates, the other three went to Hillary with 49%, 52%, and 73% for a total of 82 to Bernie's 50.
After Super Tuesday where Hillary won 8 of the 11 states she had a lead 197 delegates and in the middle of march won another 8 out of 12 states for a lead of 320 delegates. In late march Bernie saw a small comeback of 7 state victory and the overseas democrats out of 9 contests.
From April through June Hillary had won 14 contests out of 20, including Puerte Rico, DC, and Guam as well as 11 more states.
At this point HRC had 16,914,722 votes and 2,842 delegates to Bernie Sander's 13,206,428 votes and 1,820 delegates. It was a long, drawn out primary race with a very clear winner by millions of votes.
So why do people keep spreading the lie that it was rigged? Because they don't want Democrats to win. They want us to get mad at our own party and splinter into smaller factions.
I think we should have listened to Bernie: and voted for Hillary Clinton.
I did vote for Hillary, for all the good it did.
technically true; dem elite ghouls are people.
I didn't realize you considered 20 to 30 Million people dem elite ghouls. Clearly, you're just a conservative.
this is why nobody fucking likes liberals; you'd rather shit on the people you say are your allies, whose aid and support of YOUR plans at any cost and never benefit to them is your right bestowed upon you by god and his prophet, ludwig von mises, than raise a god damn finger, even on your keyboard, to stop the literal nazis gutting all your precious institutions.
the election is over. if you genuinely want to make things better; move the fuck on, and join a filthy commie or a damned anarchist in one of our projects. or you can just keep telling us its our fault and the fascists aren't at all to blame.
The fascists are to blame, and you've deluded yourself into believing the DNC are fascists despite every reason not to. When we elect Democrats we get less money in politics, we tax the rich, we expand medical coverage, we strengthen ties with allies around the world, and we actually do something about climate change.
When the GOP wins they claw back all of it.
I cannot see opposition to the DNC as anything other than pure malice, because it consequentially is.
read what I said. read what I actually said, please. stop replying to some imagined figure. go back and read what I said.
fun fact: hitler said that you should read not to learn what the author intended, but to confirm what you would like to believe, only ever seeking evidence to confirm views you already hold.
fun fact: Hitler's rise to power was heralded by right wing unity and left wing splintering, centrists and the left being unable to form a government in 3 elections until the Nazi party won and instantly formed a government which effectively ended the weimar republic.
maybe you should get on fucking board then. why didn't you vote for delacruz? she would have been electable if you had voted for her. maybe you should do some penance, in the form of joining your local DSA chapter or starting a mutual aid group?
edit: oh shit, two down no up. was this never actually about teamwork and fighting fascism?
The USA is a first past the post 2 party system.
Want to improve that? Vote Democrat. Want to make it worse? Throw your vote away, let the Republicans make it a one party.