Democrats Should Pick a New Presidential Candidate Now, The party needs to wake up and stop sleepwalking toward disaster with Biden as its nominee
Democrats Should Pick a New Presidential Candidate Now
Why do articles keep pointing the blame "at democrats" like we in the party have some kind of magical control over this?
We can only vote for the motherfuckers that run. If you run, we can vote for you. If you don't run, we can't vote for you. So, who are we supposed to pick?
Dean Philips, the guy that talks about appeasing republicans? No. Just, fuck no.
You, you on the other side of the screen, you should run for office. Then we might have more options.
The political parties decide what the options are.
IF the political parties decide that voters have NO viable options, then .. well, they don't accept any responsibility OR any accountability, do they?
It's everybody else's fault.
That, right there, is why the political-party highjacking-of-countries, ought be exterminated.
Democracy meant citizens voting on the issues, not on authorities who'd, har har, "do the right thing on behalf of the citizens".
Current technology makes that possible.
Canada can't even get long-explicitly-promised election-reform to be enacted by the guy who promised it:
political-power IS corruption, to some fundamental extent.
That has always been the case, for millenia.
Eh, that's conspiracy theory nonsense. If Bernie wanted to run, he could run. He just doesn't want to. There's no behind-the-scenes political party machine that is forcing him not to run. Nor did they prevent him from running in the past, they just tried to hurt his chances.
He still ran though, and ran strong.
I don't get why this post is down voted. Are people making the mistake of down voting based on whether they agree with the article rather than whether it is good/bad quality?
I think it's a reasonable quality article and it could prompt good discussion. Shame it's being downvoted.
Downvotes have and always will mean "I don't like this" trying to pretend otherwise is futile.
Never going to happen.
We see you for what you are, @return2ozma
This is the only type of article you post. And you seem to post them every single day.
Transparent as fuck.
Glad you see them then. I'll be sounding the alarm every day until the convention and/or general.
Biden may be old, but I happen to know for a fact that he is better than the Atlantic when it comes to taking photos that are in focus.
You don't depose a sitting President if you want to win an election. Full stop.
The only person who can take Biden out of the running is Biden.
That or a slightly loose tile.
Why aren't they pointing the fingers at the democratic machine, instead of us, who have no choice?
Because the Atlantic is an elite worshipping moderate rag of a publication these days (which is depressing because from 1857 through at least 1964 they were badasses who argued against slavery and Republicans' Southern Strategy)
Biden is not evil. Biden is a good person bound by laws and long-standing US foreign strategic relationships.
Trump on the other hand is an absolute selfish piece of shit.
I don't disagree with the premise, but who would it be? Kamala? I don't see it. Liz? The Senate is already going to be a mess, plus superdelegates. Bernie? Ditto. Gretchen? Could only see it if Biden totally stopped functioning. In my perfect world, they'd call Russ Feingold back up to the Majors, but since that didn't happen 20 years ago, it sounds like a much more remote possibility today.
Newsom seems the most likely to me
Newsom can't win middle America. He's seen as "Arrogant California Elite" outside the coasts. He's a great candidate on paper and did amazing things for Cali even if there's this he did I was infuriated by. But outside the coasts his image is sullied by his political history as a California governor.
Additionally, Newsom is not running and wouldn't even think of running unless Biden dropped out, which isn't going to happen unless he has a tragic health event.
Just completely unrealistic. The time for this type of talk was a year ago. Two years ago. There isn't even time to get new names qualified for primaries now. This is who it is. We're going to vote for him.
But will Biden motivate enough people to get off the couch to vote?
If the threat of a fascist dictator who’s currently liable for half a billion dollars of damages from his defamation (of his rape victim) and his decades of real estate fraud (not to mention his homophobia, transphobia, sexism, ableism, xenophobia, insurrection and arguably straight up treason, Christ the list goes on) doesn’t get people voting then honestly, your vaunted republic deserves to fall.
Or you could vote for “literally none of that” Biden.
But hey, tricky choice, right?
Not as long as he continues supporting Israel.
Incorrect, there is plenty of time. I highly recommend listening to Ezra Klein’s podcast about discussing he and why it can happen at the Democratic convention, and how it used to be normal.