• Zorque@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    People could also show up to primaries. People could have been showing up for the past several decades.

    This is not a situation that has just spontaneously happened, this has been happening since voting has been a thing.

    The reasons those democrats have the power they do is because we keep letting them.

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      9 hours ago

      What primary?

      The DNC made sure that the primary in 2024 was a joke. Even here so many people were like “how are you go against Biden! He’s the only one!”

      Only, I could list off dozens of reasons why he fucked up and wouldn’t have won. (Failed to get a Trump conviction is a big one, for example.)

      The whole reason he bowed out was because his campaign was clogging the shitcan, and Kamala sidelined the best thing that happened to her campaign, and proceeded to toe the corporate line saying she wouldn’t have changed anything.

      (Easy dodge: “with the benefit of hindsight, of course there are things I’d change. But as I’m currently VP, I need to support my president, so please ask the next question.”)

      And then there’s the whole genocide thing, and yeah. We all have lines we can’t cross.

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        2 hours ago

        Every state and local primary? Every congressional primary?

        You know there’s an election more than once wvery four years, right? And those other elections tend to have a much greater impact on individuals than any national election.

        But sure, the president is literally the only election that ever matters. And while you didnt cross that line, plenty of other people who did show up were more than happy to. Only they chose the much worse options.