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Are USians likely notice that the Democrat primary isn't very democratic? (hexbear.net)

submitted 3 months ago by antifa@hexbear.net to c/askchapo@hexbear.net

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I'll start off by pointing out that last 3 primaries have been some kind of funny business.

2016: Bernie snuffed by Hillary with shady tactics that lead to the D losing to Trump (lol).
2020: Everyone drops like flies to support Biden (sus, but allegedly because Trump and Covid were bad).
2024: Biden waits until the last second to announce dropping, there seems to be momentum to skip the Primary and go with Kamala Harris.

Assuming everything I've stated is accurate-enough, do you think the average person is likely to feel like this isn't Democracy? Or will this be business as usual for the US? Will the absence of censorship on tiktok be likely change anything?

For this reason, until there is a primary that Kamala wins, I want every mention of Kamala Harris to be prefixed with a formal title like Kamala Harris, the appointed, the unelected, in a similar vein as Mother of Dragons, Daenerys Targaryen.

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[–] MarxMadness@lemmygrad.ml 19 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Anyone who doesn’t get the lesson the first time is hopeless, though.

It's hard to imagine even one other situation where we'd apply this thinking. It may actually take people a while to change their axiomatic political beliefs.

Our comrades must understand that ideological remolding involves long-term, patient and painstaking work, and they must not attempt to change people's ideology, which has been shaped over decades of life, by giving a few lectures or by holding a few meetings.

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It’s hard to imagine even one other situation where we’d apply this thinking.

How about learning to not touch a hot stove?

[–] MarxMadness@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Maybe, but "owie that's hot!" is pretty different from "my entire political worldview that is reinforced by every part of mainstream culture is wrong in a way that would require a mass national movement to change."

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 months ago

Well, yeah? That's my point.

If someone doesn't figure out why they keep getting burned because the media is telling them the burning sensation is being caused by Russian bots, I don't have a lot of hope.