• TheDemonBuer@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    Yeah, I don’t think Harris is the candidate, but who is? I’m skeptical that democratic voters can reach a consensus on a candidate. I’m sure establishment/moderate Democrats can come to a consensus on their candidate, and progressives can come to a consensus on their candidate, but there’s only one party nomination. Will the progressives vote for the candidate the moderates come up with? Will the moderates vote for the candidate the progressives come up with?

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      11 hours ago

      Right now, we have only one priority, and everything else has to take a back seat until we fully accomplish that objective: We have to crush MAGA decisively, and purge it from our government and our society. We cannot address all the other problems this nation faces as long as we have treasonous, corrupt, racist, pedophiles cheating, bribing, stealing, intimidating their way into power, and keeping good things from happening to this country.

      So the next Democratic president has to be a Warrior. We cannot afford any more feckless Democrats like Biden and Obama, who stood by and watched as the larval Republicans morphed into their final stage: MAGA, and stole America right out from under their noses.

      The next president needs to know that we expect them to FIGHT for us. We are in unprecedented times, and we will require unprecedented solutions, and we need a President who isn’t afraid to act decisively toward the true National Security Threat that a violent domestic terrorist organization like MAGA genuinely represents.

      I will support the candidate who pledges to fully crush MAGA, and MEANS it.

      I’m not sure who that person is yet, but I’m looking at Mark Kelly, Pritzker, and a couple others. There are a few I would love to see in the office, like AOC or Warren, but they can’t get elected right now. Newsome is a phony billionaire lover.

      I’m waiting for that Warrior to step up, and declare war on MAGA. THAT’S my guy.

    • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world
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      11 hours ago

      Well said.

      Also: will the progressives vote for the candidate progressives come up with? Because there is always the chance that when it boils down to an actual individual, they may not pass some purity test(s) that are typically run against politicians.

      • phutatorius@lemmy.zip
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        2 hours ago

        they may not pass some purity test(s)

        Most of those purity tests are in fact rightwing voter-suppression psyops.