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The man had one foot in the grave his whole presidency.
And yet we keep electing old people
The parties do, not the people.
The people just voted for the old racist guy instead of the younger woman.
If the Dems would have had a proper primary and campaigned on defined goals instead of nebulous feelings and orange man bad, they could have won.
The weak and poorly defined platform cost them 6 swing states. They pissed off the Amish and the Arabs, which really hurt them in Pennsylvania and Michigan. They didn't campaign for the Latino voters very well, which should have been a slam dunk given the deportation platform Trump had, which impacted the swing states considerably.
The Dems need to seriously rethink their strategy for 2028 or they are going to lose again. 2026 at this point is looking shaky in both directions, so the Dems need to get their shit together immediately if they are going to stop Rep issues progressing into a 2028 victory.
Boy you moved that goalpost real quick.
The goalpost was always win the elections. It hasn't moved since 2000, Dems just keep trying to redefine how far the endzone is while they field the B team that the franchise owners like instead of solid players the fans want to see.
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Boy you're just going in circles now moving goalposts. Ciao.
No they didn't, he cheated, and we ALL know it.
The people kept electing the parties, so they must be okay with it or else they wouldn’t.
The two party system is so entrenched that voting 3rd party is a vote for the other guy that is bad. You wouldn't want to vote for the bad guy, so vote for our good guy instead of throwing away your vote on the 3rd party.
It is possible for a third party to arise in FPTP elections, but it's certainly not common or easy. The UK has a bunch; NZ had a couple before moving to MMP; I think Australia has some.
It usually requires a competent and well-known politician storming out of their party for ideological differences, but being locally popular enough to win their seat as an independent or new party.
AOC might pull it off.
It also usually causes the party they broke off from to lose higher offices a few times because the two sides of the schism don't have enough power individually to win the bigger contests. Until one of them swallows the other.
The right avoided this by doing their "reform" from within, aka the Tea Party.
No, she won't. She will take with her a third of the party while the rest don't want Republicans to win and then the Republicans win.
If democrats don't want to split the vote, they don't have to field a candidate.
They will though, because they don't want to give up control and power as well as all the money that gives them.
They would have to be aware enough to understand that they are not going in an appropriate direction, which would allow them to adjust their strategy to better align themselves with the voter base. That would invalidate the need for a third party, but compromise they idiology they have adopted fervently that has lead to failure at the polls.
Whats wrong with AOC that the centrists wouldnt back her?
She is too left and will disrupt their boat, and by boat I mean capital gains and passive income.
It would have to be in a single district; attempting multiple would definitely fail.
NZ has had a number of individual electorates where the Greens* won the seat, Labour came second, and National 3rd. With a sufficiently left-wing area and a galvanised base, it's possible.
NZ is not the US. They do not operate the same and are not capable in America's "democratic" system.
Dont look at me man, I voted uncommitted in the primary.
Would you like to remind me what a party primary is, and what effect it has on the nomination process for candidates?
Ever since democrats successfully argued in court that they are under no obligation to follow their own bylaws, a primary is kabuki theater. When we have them at all.
Whatever excuses you can muster for why inaction is praxis, huh?
I'm just not going to pretend that the party doesn't pull every dirty trick in the book to shut out everyone but the rightmost candidates they think they can get away with.
No, no, go on, maybe you can rehash some "2016 rigged!!!" theories about how every poll was wrong (paid off by the SHADOW CABAL of the DNC, of course) and the election was stolen from Bernie.
I mean, you already outright admitted you think primary elections are meaningless and participating in them means nothing.
I mean, the party argued as much in court.
So yes, as usual, pushing "Don't vote! Don't vote! It's pointless!" rhetoric while claiming you totally vote all the time, whenever you can. Anything to help the fascists and Israeli genocidaires you so adore.