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Trump will not be able to run successful if Biden runs and any faults of Biden will be because of Trump
The time for a challenger to have stepped up to Biden was before the primaries. The only ones who did lost abysmally. You and many like you could have spent your time and effort recruiting and canvassing for someone else. But you didn't. Instead, you just complain about Biden and have the temerity to say "any faults of Biden will be because of Trump" when you didn't do a thing to try to get anyone to primary him.
You want to bitch and moan, not help.
There are potentials. Eg. Gavin Newsom. He did well on Hannity.
It's too late for him to become the candidate, but perhaps he'll do as vice president.
Statistically there's something like a 50% chance that Biden dies within the next few years. No one lives forever. There needs to be a good backup.
The time for those "potentials" to run was months ago. Biden is going to be the nominee. That's how the cookie crumbles.
Also, there's only been one poll about a potential matchup between Newson and Trump, and granted it is from Fox, but Trump wins handily.
https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/president/general/2024/trump-vs-newsom
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It's ridiculous that the DNC doesn't understand this shit depresses turnout.
People want to choose who to vote for, voting for someone you dislike because the other candidate is worse doesn't get enough voters to comfortably win
Biden is going to fuck around and lose, and the "moderates" are going to blame it on progressives (even tho they always show up) and say the 2028 candidate has to be even more rightwing
Or, Biden squeaks out a victory, and the party says that also proves the party needs to go more rightwing
No matter what happens, both parties keep drifting right.
And that reality is why we spend 100s of millions every election, and still barely crack 2/3s turnout.
Or, Biden squeaks out a victory, and the party says that also proves the party needs to go more rightwing
No matter what happens, both parties keep drifting right
Shit, this is so fucking true and so fucking depressing. Thanks, truly, for being real.
Any democracy based on FPTP voting will trend rightward. It's a fundamental flaw in the voting system from a game theory perspective. The dynamics of a two party system will always support a good cop/bad cop dominant strategy (think of spoiler candidates, and how we always are faced with the prospect of voting against a bad candidate rather than for a preferable one). Good candidates exist, but our preferences are not a priority inherent to the design of the system.
We would do better with approval voting or Concorcet, but the only way to change the voting system is to get buy-in from the parties to whom it would be certainly fatal.
Except American democracy has existed for longer than this issue...
FDR won in a two party system, sure, the parties instituted term limits to get rid of him, but he won in FPTP.
But the reason both parties drift right is because of the neoliberal movement that's only been around 30 years.
It's been working out terribly, but party leadership doesn't care because there's more money in being rightwing
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