Slop.

burgerlanders think democracy is when there's a carefully stage-managed horse race orchestrated by the single, dominant faction of the party-corporation.... which is executed much more like a reality TV show than an electoral process. if it was even remotely democratic, all states would vote on the same fucking day instead of this completely archaic and rube goldberg "path to the convention" bullshit to collect delegates and horse-trade for super delegates.

these early rumblings are like the teasers for Season 22 of Democratic Party Primaries. it has nothing to do at all with who has what platform, what matters is loyalty to a camp. if you don't swear allegiance to anyone and everyone that could be crowned during the primaries, you are a not a true fan of the franchise and must be shouted down. why? because you are distracting from the point of the TV show, which is to convince everyone that the democratic presidential primaries are democratic, and not a rigged horse race of focus groups and brands competing for the role of Figure Head.

In some way, they recognize that the party will preordain whoever it is they want to win and do anything possible to push them to the front. So if it appears Newsome is the likely nominee, they will back him 100% and suggest that people in the way of that are handing the election over because part of their brain knows the Dems won't run a progressive candidate.

A third party win is never possible because "people won't vote for them", meaning they themselves who have become comfortable in their bondage, will not do so. Otherwise they would have to face the fact that they contributed to the current (negative) societal conditions by voting against the preordained person. Just as the tankies, the single issue voters, and whatever nonsense name they use did.

Their framing is backwards in that their vote determines their morality and standing and can be a personal failure. Instead of the party failing them by running terrible candidates and preferring to lose instead of doing literally anything beneficial for their voters.

That they’re talking about him as if he’s already the nominee and any criticism of him is “spoiling” the election for the GOP candidate just shows that for all their noble talk of saving democracy, they really hate the masses having any say over the state.