Personally, I think there is sufficient discontent – #metoo, antifa, underrepresented and disenfranchised POC, etc. – to make up a third party pairing with progressive, fed-up white folk that could outnumber the others, or at least seriously put the fear into the other two parties.
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Yup.
But for that to happen, it would need to be already organised by now. Nearly everyone but the hardcore revolutionaries are still focused on trying to take over the Dems.
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The aesthetics of the step pyramid will not yield to the inadequacy of any man.
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that was the first thing i DID notice, haha. and if anyone thinks they are completely interchangeable, they haven’t been paying attention.
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All these random middle age white guys are interchangeable as far as I’m concerned.
In the seemingly infinite clown car that is the 2020 Democratic Primaries, these are the clowniest clowns to ever clown.
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Yup, that sure looks “unelectable” to me.
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I will vote for whomever the Democrats put up. Maybe gladly, maybe extremely grudgingly, depending, but I will do it.
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Please, not Biden.
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same. this is how we will win. Biden, Bernie, Warren, even Beto. we can’t fall victim to the whole “divide and conquer” ploy again.
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Kamala Harris, Cory Booker, doesn’t really matter to me either
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yes, exactly. i have my personal preferences right now, but whoever gets the nomination, gets my vote. same as last time, actually. but hopefully this time we do better.
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we can’t fall victim to the whole “divide and conquer” ploy again.
We didn’t. There were two credible candidates in the primary, one of which thought she was the only legitimate candidate in the entire country. She lost where she took that for granted. We can’t allow the entitled in the DNC to make the same mistake again. Because they’re gonna try.
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Even if one is a believer in the “vote blue no matter who” orthodoxy, public declarations of that sentiment before the primary is concluded achieves nothing but to encourage the party establishment to once again ignore the needs and desires of the electorate.
If you want to ensure that the Dem candidate recieves the maximum possible vote, focus on making sure that the primary produces a candidate worth supporting.
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Yes. Right now we need the best candidate to emerge, not to pretend they’re all flawless and we can’t criticize them. Because they’re all flawed, some more than others.
After the primary, we support the winner against the opposition.
After the general, we hold that person’s feet to the fire to do the right things.
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i’m not advocating just sitting back and letting them anoint whoever they want. i’m just saying that i will vote for whoever ends up with the nomination.
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I think the Democratic party has shown quite clearly that isn’t going to shift left very fast. They’ve gotten too big, too ingrown, too sure of their own superiority. It’s the typical inertia of big organizations. I think it will require progressives actually joining the party, moving up in the organization, and getting enough power to actually shift its direction. People like AOC.
Not saying “I’m gonna vote blue regardless” isn’t going to change them. There has to be change from within.
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Or when Facebook ads from Russia suppressed her voters
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