• Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world
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    21 hours ago

    Primaries need to be more trustworthy if you don’t want people to act like they’ve been railroaded.

    We all saw what happened with the “primaries” in 2024. The party sued as many candidates as it could off the ballot, to the point where Biden was the only candidate on the ballot in all 50 states. Then he dropped out and anointed Harris without any input from the voters who rejected her in 2020.

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      17 hours ago

      Primaries need to be more trustworthy if you don’t want people to act like they’ve been railroaded.

      Oh hell yeah they do. But, we got what we got and, when facing a terminal illness like this fascism, work with the tools you got. Chemotherapy is a toxic poison, but it’ll do when faced with terminal cancer.

      The party sued as many candidates as it could off the ballot, to the point where Biden was the only candidate on the ballot in all 50 states. Then he dropped out and anointed Harris without any input from the voters who rejected her in 2020.

      Yes, the primaries need a massive overhaul. But, if people voted blue no matter who in the general, transgender people wouldn’t be labeled as domestic terrorists today for merely existing.

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        16 hours ago

        I don’t know why you think I wanted to be convinced to vote how I already voted in an election that’s already over.

        I voted for harris. If the party keeps doing the same thing, they will keep getting the same results. The voters won’t vote for second worst in sufficient numbers to win, and no amount of condescending centrist-splaining is going to change that. The only thing that will is the party being better.