I am skeptical if the guy who was a meme about how nobody cares about politics on c-span AND who has historically refused to condemn the horrific “communist” regimes would do well against an opponent who does nothing but throw schoolyard insults. Calling Biden “a communist” makes most of the moderates laugh. Calling Bernie “a communist” leads to him basically saying what only the far (American) left wants to hear and terrifying the hell out of the center.
But also? This makes no fucking sense and just makes “leftists” look like assholes.
Because Hilary was not as left leaning as Sanders you… refused to vote and gave the right wing moron the win?
Because Biden was not as left leaning as Sanders… he won? Or are we now saying that Genocide Joe is a straight up marxist?
Because Kamala was not as left leaning as Sanders you… refused to vote and gave the openly fascist hatemonger the win?
I do think the Dems screwed up the “primary”. But also? There was no time. Conventional wisdom is that you don’t run against your own incumbent and the extent of Biden’s infirmity was not apparent until way too late. We were never going to have nation wide votes and it was always going to be “super delegates”. But maybe a more public “debate” rather than all the major players just saying “Yeah, Kamala is awesome” within a few hours of her announcing would have done more for the “base” who… still decided not to vote?
Part of me does wonder if we wouldn’t be better with a standing policy to ALWAYS primary the POTUS. Done well, we have a way, as the people, to influence the platform and make our candidate much stronger.
Then I remember that we are STILL litigating 2016 because some people are pissy that the person they wanted didn’t get the votes (obviously only because of people understanding the existence of superdelegates, I guess?) and all the damage that was done to Hilary because Sanders didn’t concede when he should have and use his political capital to get concessions (as he seemed to have done with Biden in 2020).
I am skeptical if the guy who was a meme about how nobody cares about politics on c-span AND who has historically refused to condemn the horrific “communist” regimes would do well against an opponent who does nothing but throw schoolyard insults. Calling Biden “a communist” makes most of the moderates laugh. Calling Bernie “a communist” leads to him basically saying what only the far (American) left wants to hear and terrifying the hell out of the center.
But also? This makes no fucking sense and just makes “leftists” look like assholes.
I do think the Dems screwed up the “primary”. But also? There was no time. Conventional wisdom is that you don’t run against your own incumbent and the extent of Biden’s infirmity was not apparent until way too late. We were never going to have nation wide votes and it was always going to be “super delegates”. But maybe a more public “debate” rather than all the major players just saying “Yeah, Kamala is awesome” within a few hours of her announcing would have done more for the “base” who… still decided not to vote?
Just to reply to myself on the primary thing:
Part of me does wonder if we wouldn’t be better with a standing policy to ALWAYS primary the POTUS. Done well, we have a way, as the people, to influence the platform and make our candidate much stronger.
Then I remember that we are STILL litigating 2016 because some people are pissy that the person they wanted didn’t get the votes (obviously only because of people understanding the existence of superdelegates, I guess?) and all the damage that was done to Hilary because Sanders didn’t concede when he should have and use his political capital to get concessions (as he seemed to have done with Biden in 2020).