• 0110010001100010@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    To be fair, I didn’t want Biden the first time either. He just happened to be not Trump. I’ll vote Biden again, but I’m not pleased those are my only (real) options. We really need ranked choice voting here in the US…

  • AlternatePersonMan@lemmy.fmhy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Biden has done a better job than I expected, but he should clearly retire. I think this is a huge, and almost necessary opportunity for Democrats. Incumbents are way more likely to get reelected. Since Trump has pissed off too many people, and he’ll sabotage any other front runners for his party.

    Wouldn’t it make sense to get someone younger and a little bolder in now for the Dema? They have a very strong likelihood to win this round, and then they’ll be the incumbents next term. We could finally replace some garbage supreme court members.

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    1 year ago

    I mean seriously… We don’t have ANY better and more qualified candidates in our 331.9 million citizens? Really?

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      1 year ago

      More qualified, yes.

      Able to win the primaries of the two political parties that people will vote for, no.

      The problem is the voting system. You can vote for the orange idiot and never vote again or vote for the other guy and live longer.

  • sin_free_for_00_days@lemmy.one
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    1 year ago

    The parties don’t care what people want/need. Occasionally putting the lipstick on the pig fools too many people for them to care.

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        Yeah, just look at the DNC and Bernie. Clearly chosen by the voters and not at all manipulated by the party to get the result they wanted.

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            Do you have any idea how influential media is? When you have MSNBC and CNN plus various others talking about how Biden is the only viable option again and again and again, you can’t ignore the influence of that. He won South Carolina after the endorsement of a very popular and influential corporate Democrat there. The media along with the DNC saw that as the opportunity to rally around Biden. Everyone drops out and endorses him, and there you go. I’m oversimplifying a bit for the sake of brevity, obviously, but bottom line, Biden was chosen and supported to defeat Bernie because they couldn’t accept the possibility of a politician like Bernie winning. He was a threat to capital and he was extinguished from the race.

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    1 year ago

    As a representative democracy we are doing it wrong when none of the candidates represent the majority. They represent business and special interests that’s it.

    That being said republicans are in the pockets of the most backwards ass religious folks… So that’s is definitely worse when they continue to shit on our constitution for that group.

    So sleepy Joe it is.

  • ram@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    Hopefully by 2028 Trump dies so it’s not Trump and his massive-ass base vs the newcomer Dem candidate.