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There's a primary and no one is even close. There are no good alternatives mostly because no one is dumb enough to run against an incumbent. If Biden was not seeking nomination then yeah. But the bias towards incumbents is too strong to take a chance like that on. You'll just end up with an otherwise viable candidate losing by 50-60% and looking terrible. Potentially torpedoing their chances next cycle.
A lot of that has to do with how the DNC is run based on seniority. With the Democrats they will only really let you near power/funding if you've done the time, and have proven that you can be a party player.
The vetting process has its benefits, it cuts down on the cult of personality types that can destabilize the platform. However, it also tends to filter out anyone more progressive than the party leadership, and basically ensures that key leadership roles are filled with people who should have retired in the early 00s.
It’s always good to see some ELI5 to the people here. It’s such a fundamentally obvious fact about how things work, but even on a base level- people just don’t get how that works.
Thanks for spelling it out. Hopefully it helps some people under how things work.
Maybe we're out of time for business as usual lesser of two evils bullshit.
There's where we'd like to be, and there's where we are actually at. I want ranked choice voting, I want third party candidates, I think Biden is decent but not amazing. I'm still going to vote for him out of self interest and preservation.
Fair enough