• givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 months ago

    I’m not sure how it works in the US

    Yeah. If you think primaries matter, you don’t know how it works here…

    But one DNC lawyer’s argument actually tries to justify the party’s right to be biased on behalf of one primary candidate over another, according to an article from The Young Turks. In other words, they could have chosen their nominee over cigars in a backroom.

    https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/dnc-lawyer-reportedly-said-they-could-have-chosen-between-clinton-sanders-over-cigars-in-back-rooms/

    Their legal defense for interfering with the 2016 primary was literally:

    Who cares? A primary isn’t a real election and doesn’t matter, we don’t have to listen to results.

    • theonyltruemupf@feddit.de
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      6 months ago

      Maybe the primaries system is fucked up, but protest votes in the presidential elections won’t change the system for the better either. Neither party wants to introduce a democratic, proportional voting system because both parties would lose power. I don’t know how to fix it, i just know that getting Trump elected won’t.

      • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        6 months ago

        Maybe

        Maybe?

        It is fucked.

        We have no say in who either of the two general candidates are, and they take billions from the same people/industries.

        That’s not an exaggeration, 2020 Biden spent a billion, and 2024 they’re predicting two billion.

        We have an illusion of choice and the same people win no matter which party wins the oval office.

        I don’t know how to fix it, i just know that getting Trump elected won’t.

        Neither will voting Biden, it doesn’t solve the problem, just kicks the can down the road and 4 years from now it’ll be the same thing. Either with trump again or someone even worse.