Edit: good to see I woke the shills

  • OprahsedCreature@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Guess if Dems didn’t want that they’d give another candidate a genuine shot, but ol’ Genocide Joe needs his legacy. This’ll be it.

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      1 year ago

      Incumbents historically have a huge advantage, any new candidate would get absolutely swept by Trump. Most Americans are embarrassingly out of touch with politics

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      1 year ago

      Unfortunately, the time for a better candidate was last election cycle. Incumbency advantage is too critical to give up.

      That being said, voting harder won’t ever move America to the left, that has to be done at the grassroots level.

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        Incumbency advantage is too critical to give up.

        At this point, what advantage? He’s been polling worse than Trump. He’s more of an anchor than an engine now.

        That being said, voting harder won’t ever move America to the left, that has to be done at the grassroots level.

        With Dems there’s always an excuse to do nothing and hope really hard for vague change later.

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          Incumbency advantage persists. Swapping to a new candidate would likely be worse, even if the candidate is better, purely based on electoralism.

          Yes, the dems do nothing. This is better than Republicans, who do a lot of bad shit. Voting dem won’t fix issues, it will just prevent many more from cropping up. What fixes issues is grassroots praxis.

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            Incumbency advantage persists. Swapping to a new candidate would likely be worse, even if the candidate is better, purely based on electoralism.

            I’m sure many people will be comforted by that when he loses.

            Yes, the dems do nothing. This is better than Republicans, who do a lot of bad shit.

            Read up on the Ratchet Effect.

            What fixes issues is grassroots praxis.

            I too, like vague undefined concepts that obfuscate real potential solutions.