The democrats haven’t held a legitimate primary since 2008!

In 2008 it was a genuine competition between Obama, Hillary, and a handful of other lesser known politicians. Obama won the general in a landslide.

In 2012 Obama ran unopposed. Obama won the general.

In 2016 the democrats rigged the primary against sanders for Hillary, and to absolutely no one’s surprise who was paying attention, Hillary lost the general. Why? she didn’t genuinely win the primary. Shocking!

In 2020, refusing to learn mistakes from 2016, the democrats once again screwed over bernie and didn’t run a legitimate primary - rigged it so that all the candidates except no-path-to-win Warren exited the race to split the progressive vote away from bernie. Joe biden won by the skin of his teeth, and he would of lost if it weren’t for the country reacting to trumps handling of covid.

In 2024, once again refusing to learn the democrats didn’t even bother with a primary, ran an old demented geezer as a presidential candidate, realized that wasn’t going to work, and then anointed unelected Kamala Harris who didn’t even need to compete in a primary.

And they’re shocked they lost?! These people make way too much money to be this stupid.

  • mommykink@lemmy.worldEnglish
    224·
    16 days ago

    Harris and embracing people like Dick Cheney

    I knew it was over at that point. Whoever suggested that was a good idea for Harris that late in the campaign definitely has a MAGA hat in their closet.

    • Suavevillain@lemmy.world
      171·
      16 days ago

      I knew it was bad at the debate, where Trump even called her out for adopting his polices like the border wall and stuff. But the Dick Cheney thing was crazy because not only was he rejected by Liberals in the past. But he is still one of the most hated War Criminals of all time. He isn’t going to sway over GOP people when you’re active in genocide. It just makes you look like the type of people he likes.

      • twistypencil@lemmy.world
        133·
        16 days ago

        Seriously? People making the choice to have Trump because she had Cheney supporting her, that is some funny math…people need to stop demanding a perfect candidate and start thinkinh about who do you want to be your opponent for the next four years.

        • Suavevillain@lemmy.world
          51·
          16 days ago

          There are people who still believe Trump is anti-war for some reason or don’t play attention to the stuff he does once in office. It isn’t asking for perfection to not be cool with one of the most unpopular people in politics and the worst War Criminal when your tagline is “Joy.” Morals and Standards go a long way.

        • inv3r510n@lemmy.worldOP
          1·
          16 days ago

          I doubt anybody based their support on whether dick fucking Cheney was voting for Harris or not.

          The fact that the democrats courted this war criminal instead of courting their base just goes to show how little they care about losing an election.

    • twistypencil@lemmy.world
      103·
      16 days ago

      Tbh, if she went all progressive, we would have been in here dating she needed to reach across the aisle. It’s hard to be both and I’m not sure it’s just the dnc to blame here, misogyny, ignorance and racism is hardly their fault,she the dnc has a role here, but…

      • mommykink@lemmy.worldEnglish
        141·
        16 days ago

        I disagree. If weve learned anything from the past two elections, it should be that there is no “middle aisle” to appeal to anymore. It makes no sense to go “mild” when the people really sitting home on Nov. 5th are the “wild” ones who feel like you aren’t progressive enough.

        Case-in-point being Trump’s own campaign which did exactly that and is now looking like it won the popular vote by a higher margin than Biden won in 2020, too.