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The reason we need to have this conversation every time is because we want to live in a democracy
In a democracy, you get two choices and one of the choices ends the democracy so you really only have one choice.
Why do so many people act like primaries don't exist. Everyone online complains about Joe Biden but then 96% of south Carolina votes for him? Slactivism at it's finest.
Another thing that annoys me is how people just treat the primary process with such respect with regard to the 2 parties. This year the GOP primary is the only (potentially) competitive one, so what's stopping everyone from voting in the GOP primary so there can be a more acceptable opponent to Biden? I know it feels icky to register as a Republican but I'm just kinda shocked how no one ever takes this opportunity with such an exploitable system that consistently gets us disastrous results. Instead we complain about the 2 party system all the time, but then abide by it when the two parties ask us to.
Because this year they didn't. 95% of votes haven't been cast yet and everyone except the front-runners have dropped out already.
The only way we don't get a Biden v Trump rematch in 2024 is if a convention is outright hijacked or one/both of them drop dead of Old People Itis.
Nobody else is going to fix what you dont like about the primaries for you, bro. Throwing your hands up and playing the victim because the odds are 99.99% against you only changes those odds to 100%.
What does this have to do with the primaries?
>Throwing your hands up and playing the victim because the odds are 99.99% against you only changes those odds to 100%.
i love this. i'm going to use it every time someone tries to suppress voter turnout by telling me cornel west and jill stein can't win.
Complaining on lemmy is 1000x easier than knocking on doors and it accomplishes 1000x less.
i've knocked doors. i don't do that any more. i can't face my neighbors after telling them to put someone in power who stabbed us in the back.
thats great news to hear youre not doing anything bc im supporting biden in the primary
i'm supporting cornel west to get ballot access.
This conversation is the point. Without it, we would only have kings.
"want". never have, probably won't