• pjwestin@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    This article is fucking absurd. It holds up the primary as a paragon if the democratic process, even though Biden was the only candidate to have universal ballot access, and ignores the fact that two-thirds of Democratic didn’t want him to run. It compares the Drop-Biden advocates to the January 6th protesters, even though they’re advocating for a contested convention, which is the same process that was used until 1970. And to top it all off, it’s written by Stuart Stevens, AKA Mitt Romney’s 2012 campaign strategist. Why should the Democrats be taking advice from a Republican strategist, especially one that’s already botched a presidential campaign?

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      Primaries are also weird because depending on what state you live in the election is often decided before you even get to vote. Imagine living in a state as big as California and having no impact on the primary.

      If the general election can be one day maybe so can the primary.

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        That’s a feature, not a bug. The party leaders like having time to craft a narrative and create momentum behind their preferred candidate. It’s how Biden’s campaign managed to come back from the dead in 2020. If the primaries were all held on the same day, these pundits wouldn’t be telling us to stick with Biden, they’d be telling us Bernie is too old for a second term.

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        Imagine living in a state as big as California and having no impact on the primary.

        After South Carolina has decided for you.

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      I voted uncommitted for a lot of reasons, and this is one of them. Getting Biden out and having a brokered convention certainly expresses my democratic will.

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      So the Democratic Party doesn’t actually favor democracy?

      Next you’ll tell me North Korea, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, isn’t actually democratic either.

      The Dems coronated Biden while screaming at the top of their lungs how much they love democracy.

      Goddamn I am tired of being gaslit.

      Super tired of bullshit.

      Tired of lies. Just because Trump lies 10 times for every 7 words he speaks does not mean I want a party that claims to rep my interests for me to lie to me 4 times for every 7 words. Jesus fucking H Christ. “But we the Dems only raped you a little bit, and the GOP will rape you more.” Go fuck yourselves with that logic, Dem scum.

      We need a giant country-wide systemic reset and the Dem leadership is thinking what kind of crumb they can still throw at the plebs without upsetting their precious billionaire donors.

      The Dems slow-walked us to fascism while blaming the GOP. The Dems take zero personal responsibility.

      The Democratic Party cannot fail us, it can only be failed by us.