People protest voting in the primaries is part of why Biden dropped this election. It proved he didn’t have the support.
In 2020 Bernie Sanders won 3 of the 4 primaries that happened and was projected to win more before the DNC forced every other candidate to drop and support Biden for a cabinet position that they didn’t even fulfill for any candidate actually left of Biden (poor Warren). And then they announced an early win for Biden because of it.
And in 2016 the DNC had to say they didn’t have to pick who was voted for because they had literally performed under the table agreements and deals to help Clinton.
I also agree we have to deal with what we gave got. Vote with who we have and suck it up as much as possible.
But, hand waving and blaming it on the primaries where obviously people did go out to vote and there is deeply something wrong and corrupt about it is also disingenious to the people that put the work in but were stopped.
We all want to blame some part of the chain, some specific link for why this is bad, but the answer is that there is corruption and apathy all over the place and we all want to find some answering flaw when it’s clear it’s all broken. It won’t be because of a specific voter or non voter it will be because this setup is nearing its limits of what it can acheive on rolling along as is.
People protest voting in the primaries is part of why Biden dropped this election. It proved he didn’t have the support.
In 2020 Bernie Sanders won 3 of the 4 primaries that happened and was projected to win more before the DNC forced every other candidate to drop and support Biden for a cabinet position that they didn’t even fulfill for any candidate actually left of Biden (poor Warren). And then they announced an early win for Biden because of it.
And in 2016 the DNC had to say they didn’t have to pick who was voted for because they had literally performed under the table agreements and deals to help Clinton.
I also agree we have to deal with what we gave got. Vote with who we have and suck it up as much as possible.
But, hand waving and blaming it on the primaries where obviously people did go out to vote and there is deeply something wrong and corrupt about it is also disingenious to the people that put the work in but were stopped.
We all want to blame some part of the chain, some specific link for why this is bad, but the answer is that there is corruption and apathy all over the place and we all want to find some answering flaw when it’s clear it’s all broken. It won’t be because of a specific voter or non voter it will be because this setup is nearing its limits of what it can acheive on rolling along as is.