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“Joe Biden is the WORST he needs to drop out he is ANCIENT, I demand a replacement or else I will not vote”
“Wtf no no no I meant I wanted you to flail and become disorganized in a way I could find weaknesses in and attack. I mean THEY could. They could find weaknesses and attack. I will not vote for Kamala.”
The entire two party system + electoral college is undemocratic.
So why is this tabloid arguing solely about Harris? Where was all this handwringing for the last century?
They were busy handwringing about how John Kerry was a coward, Gore was boring, and Howard Dean yelled real loud that one time. And, in the meantime, their friends they were running cover for were pulping the American economy for everything they could get, squeezing the vulnerable for every last little drop of blood they could manage to extract, and then throwing a lot of them in prison (profitable! it's just a smart decision) to get rid of them.
Dukakis looked silly in a picture while the Reagan admin was committing treason
Corporately owned media. Their bottom line is money. Not truth or enlightenment. And most of these owners literally salivate at the thought of being part of the group of fascists that get to make the rules and rake in the resources. Much more than anything we need to see a dissolution of many of these groups. At least in terms of news coverage. There can still be news platforms of course. But the focus should be on the journalist themselves. And their reputations. And not monolithic easily corruptible institutions.
Conservatives really have their panties in a twist now that their orange pedo god king won’t get an easy win.
Putting Harris at the top of the ticket is a pragmatic approach in the context of an election where we’re trying to stave off a fascist takeover.
Also, FEC campaign regulations would have made it extremely complicated to shift Biden’s existing campaign funds and operational infrastructure to an entirely unrelated candidate.
This is a realistic solution in the context of a flawed system that’s under threat from a fascist takeover. Try to remember that in many cases, perfect is the enemy of good.
I agree, but in the context of 2016 and 2020 the shoe still fits
The two party system is somewhat undemocratic, but she’s more popular than the incumbent president everybody just assumed we had to stick with. Switching it up like that was more in the interests of the voters, wasn’t it? I don’t understand how that’s grounds for a claim that it was done out of distrust for the voters. Kind of the opposite, isn’t it? It wasn’t just representatives that thought Biden was hitting his limit.
I was going to begrudgingly vote for Biden. I will now optimistically vote for Harris. I will still get to engage in democracy in November and I did vote "Uncommitted" in the primaries.
While I would love actually competent primaries (and maybe ones that don't just end before getting to my state) and would love an actually Democratic voting system I'm not sure this election was any less Democratic than previous ones.
That could just be me clouding my judgement because I think they made the right choice here, but the alternative was chaos and an inevitable loss.
The politicians in smoke-filled rooms will warn that primary challengers weaken incumbents and might cost the party its electoral ambitions in the general election. They’ll worry that acknowledging the glaring undemocratic nature of the 2024 process will weaken Harris against Trump.
We need a competitive primary every four years no matter what.
We need the party leaders to stop treating primary challenges as a threat, and a way to engage voters.
Incumbents still have a huge advantage, but currently it's almost a political death sentence to run against an incumbent, or not drop out after the first week even when there isn't an incumbent.
This is the actual take away we need. Harris is a fine candidate for this situation - we were desperate and needed someone in a snap... but we need to have competitive primaries every election.
It's highly likely Harris would have beat Biden and then, instead of that disastrous debate we'd have trounced Trump and low information voters would be more familiar with Harris as a candidate.
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https://theconversation.com/democratic-partys-choice-of-harris-was-undemocratic-and-the-latest-evidence-of-party-leaders-distrusting-party-voters-236002
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