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You do know that you can participate in primaries?
You mean like when they de-facto forced Bernie out top-down?
And how they booted David Hogg after he was elected as vice chair of the DNC. Tried to say his nomination was void or some other bullshit after they realized he wasn't just going to tow the party line.
I'm aware. I also know that the DNC (the centralized organization) has a lot of influence through things like superdelegates. Look at the 2016 primary- openly colluding with Hillary against Bernie, and it worked.
And then of course in 2020 they colluded behind the scenes to have all the candidates drop out except Biden, Bernie, and Elizabeth Warren(Left in to split the progressive vote).
But you know these blue maga types, they prefer to leave reality off the table so they can pretend this is a functioning democracy.
And in 2024...Oh right... No choice to be had.
Edit: Oh and then of course, that's also conveniently leaving out that only registered democrats are allowed to vote in those primaries in most states, leaving out a significant chunk of the electorate.
2024*
It's free, and you can do it either online, or by mail, or in person. What the "I would vote but don't know how to buy stamps" bullshit argument is that?
My state only lets you vote in primaries to the party you're registered to. So I cannot vote in the Republican primary at all which means I get no representation from them even if I think they're all fucking mad.
...that's how it's supposed to work, yes. You chose your party affiliation first, then you chose how this party is shaped.
Do I also think it's stupid? Absolutely. But that's the system you have, and you don't get another one by just ignoring it really hard.
That not everybody registers democrat for one reason or another, and are left out of the democratic process. Which people like you choose to ignore because it makes your arguments less sound.
The internal politics of the party is not the only democratic process available to you. Pretending that it's a big conspiracy that you need to be a member of a political organisation to effect said organisation is one of the most insane arguments against participating in democracy I've heard recently, so congrats on that.
Yeah, I would also want American insane political system to be not as insane. Maybe participate in it a bit more, and you can change it, huh?
First I knock on doors for the candidates I believe in, I'm probably one of the most participatory voters in my local area. I do the calls, I join in protests where I can, and am an active member of my community. If I wasn't I certainly wouldn't be pissed about the whole fucking thing. FFS, I've quite literally helped organize my neighborhood in case ICE shows up.
I get that you don't like losing, so you imagine arguments you can fight against, but don't you find it a bit pathetic you need to do that? Stick to what I said, not what imaginary me said in your head, please. Don't assume shit about my life you haven't even bothered asking me about, it just pisses me off, and makes you look like an idiot.
In the whole history of DNC's existence, there was, as far as I remember, two instances of DNC choosing a candidate against popular vote. One was more than a century ago nobody remembers nobody cares, and another one was when they chose Obama even though he lost almost a percent. And that turned out to be actually a good and correct decision.
When Hilary, was nominated, both times Biden was nominated, it was always aligned with a popular vote. We don't know what superdelegates would've done, but what we know is that so far they do exactly what democratic party voters want them to do. If you want them to do something else, and god fucking knows we all do, you can start by actually showing them that.
Either there is not enough people agree with your desires, or enough of them do and they don't do anything about it. In both cases DNC isn't a problem, you are.
yea, like our last primary! … oh wait.
Our last primary was just 2 days ago. Hope you didn't miss that one just like all the others.
mine is not available until june
I asked this question elsewhere, but who did you vote for President in the Democratic Party Primaries in 2024?
Edit: I'm going to assume the downvoters don't like coming up against the fact that there was no Presidential Candidates on the ballot in the 2024 primaries, but can't handle that their pithy "Just vote in the primaries" isn't really valid lol.
You seem to hung up on the fact that presidential nominee that both DNC and the democratic party voters chose got health issues and the party chose his running mate and a person who got second place on primaries to be the next candidate, instead of starting the primaries 3 months before the election.
And that's technically true, but what to you think they should've done instead? Or are you doing it from the perspective of a pure internet argument? Like, "see, sometimes the candidate you chose gets sick therefore the democracy doesn't exist" type shit?
I think Biden should have kept his word and planned to be a 1 term president. Maybe if he had stuck to his stated plan, we would have had a different outcome. You know in opposition of covering up his health problems until it was too late?
I agree with that. I believe the plan was that he will be relatively alive for long enough to win an election and then step down later allowing Harris to actually fill the role. I understand the logic behind it, he's the "safe" candidate, incumbent always has an advantage, and they correctly identified the issue of running woman of colour as a democratic candidate, American voters are, for some reason, aren't as cool with that as they should be by now.
In the end I agree that they should've predicted his health problems earlier, but we know that on hindsight.
There definitely was a 2024 primary. You can complain about how it went down, but you should stop acting like it never happened
I didn't say there wasn't a primary. I asked who did you vote for President in said primary?
I didn't vote in the 2024 primary because the Democrats had an incumbent candidate, and never in my life has either major party weakened their own position by running viable candidates against them in the primary. Because that would be really stupid.
And then we lost...