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Well, they couldn't tell the truth and risk a more liberal candidate.
I honestly have a hard time believing it was ideology and not the good, old fashioned inability of boomers to let go of power.
Edit: Not talking about the Democratic establishment. Speaking specifically about Biden refusing to step down until it was too late.
Biden is silent gen, the generation before boomers.
But yeah all the old politicians clinging to the levers of power because they're selfish is a part of what has led us to this point.
It’s not even just old politicians, it’s every aspect of society, at least that’s my experience
Nah the article makes it clear the Democratic leadership has been captured by corporate executives who have a vested interest in not giving the working class an inch.
It’s hard to truly know what went on behind the scenes, but there was a large amount of common disdain for Biden staying in the race after “we beat Medicare” - anyone who hadn’t already been clued into his cognitive decline was suddenly confronted with that reality, and people knew he was a clear loser at that point.
For Biden the floor only fell out beneath him after Nancy Pelosi and the donor class publicly announced they wanted Joe out NOW that the DNC/Biden camp realized the gig was up.
I remember when I said Biden was making more speeches like Trump, I was downvoted on Reddit for wanting someone younger than retirement age for president, even if I was going to vote for Biden.
Yeah. I understood the (good faith) arguments that the presidency is a high tempo, stressful, 24/7 job and that Biden was wiped out in interviews or public appearances - but that’s an excuse not an exoneration.
If he couldn’t make it through the work each day without being cooked, every single day, then he should have stood aside for someone younger/sharper who could. I voted for Jimmy Carter 2.0 in 2020, not for Biden - the downslope was apparent even before then if you cared to look beyond the news headlines. He never should have ran again in 2024.
You'd have a hard time believing a lot then, because that's what actual voters were saying. If Harris had been more left-leaning in appearance, they wouldn't have even captured the shift they did grab.
Clearly she didn't support genocide hard enough or get the endorsement of enough Cheneys.
For your liking.
To anyone reading Ensign's comment and downvoting, their claim is essentially an already established fact. Rolling Stone put out an article after the election saying that the Harris campaigned intentionally ignored Democratic party insiders and their advice and polling data against bringing the Cheneys on board.
Article in question
The fucking Cheneys! If you told me years back that name would somehow be invoked as a supporter of the DNC candidate, I'd say the party had been compromised. ಠ_ಠ
No centrist cares, dude. They're just gonna do what the DNC did and scream even louder that we need to move to the right.
At least they would have failed trying to do something, as opposed to failing trying to do nothing.
I don't think these people could get any more liberal.
But they could certainly choose a leftist candidate in theory at least.