Vote anyways
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He's the face of why ya gotta vote. All the DNC trickery in the world woulda meant nothing if y'all turned out on primary day with the same energy y'all spend on cursing everyone else for doing it and not voting for him.
He coulda won, by a landslide, and he didn't because he deserved better than his own supporters.
The progressive paradox. Progressive ideas and politicians are soooo popular but there's always a reason they lost and it's never because progressives don't turn out.
The issue wasn't that people didn't show up. There was record turnout for a primary race. The issue was concerns about electability. The talking heads kept repeating incessantly that Biden had the better shot at beating Trump. It was complete bullshit based off polls, but people believed it. Beating Trump was the top priority with policy taking a back seat. The position we are in now is the universe's sense of irony.
The thing that fucks American elections isn't our abysmal turnout. It's the complete lack of civic involvement between elections that makes voters easily malleable by expensive ad campaigns.