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The democrats haven’t held a legitimate primary since 2008!

In 2008 it was a genuine competition between Obama, Hillary, and a handful of other lesser known politicians. Obama won the general in a landslide.

In 2012 Obama ran unopposed. Obama won the general.

In 2016 the democrats rigged the primary against sanders for Hillary, and to absolutely no one’s surprise who was paying attention, Hillary lost the general. Why? she didn’t genuinely win the primary. Shocking!

In 2020, refusing to learn mistakes from 2016, the democrats once again screwed over bernie and didn’t run a legitimate primary - rigged it so that all the candidates except no-path-to-win Warren exited the race to split the progressive vote away from bernie. Joe biden won by the skin of his teeth, and he would of lost if it weren’t for the country reacting to trumps handling of covid.

In 2024, once again refusing to learn the democrats didn’t even bother with a primary, ran an old demented geezer as a presidential candidate, realized that wasn’t going to work, and then anointed unelected Kamala Harris who didn’t even need to compete in a primary.

And they’re shocked they lost?! These people make way too much money to be this stupid.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

she had to try and be electable if she were to accomplish anything. How can it be that this is not obvious?

And my point is that "electable" for a Dem candidate isn't what she was doing.

That would be matching her platform to what Dem voters wanted. Instead she based policy on "all voters" which includes the 40-50% who will never vote D under any circumstance. And in that process she lost votes from voters who will never vote R under any circumstances.

If she was trying to be electable, it just shows how important it is we clear house at the DNC and run a fair primary in 2028.

Because the same people have been running the show since 2016, and they're 2-1 against fucking trump.

They clearly aren't up to the task

[–] [email protected] 3 points 18 hours ago

Another pretty fucking important thing to point out is that total voter turnout dropped by like 18 fucking million. The centrist bullshit just made a lot of people further to the left feel like it wasn’t even worth it to show up.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Run a fair primary in 2028? Lol they won’t! Watch them coronate Chelsea Clinton or one of the Obama girls lmfao.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

You think there’ll be a Democratic Party in 2028 that’s not simply controlled opposition?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 17 hours ago