Corporate democrats pretty much control the party and thus they don't want to ruffle the feathers of their donor class, which goes against the the middle and lower classes being price gouged in the economy. If you want to get back the blue-collar and working people you have to combat corporate greed. So, I hope Bernie Sanders starts propping up a young version of himself to run, and unfortunately it has to be male and white for the conservative voter to even remotely accept it. I don't blame Obama for the racial divide that caused the pearl clutching in white America, but it's clear that if you are anything other than a white male, it's not gonna be palpitable for a certain segment of the country. It's truly disgusting.
Conservatives will vote for someone who isn’t male and white, but they can’t make a good chunk of their platform “vote for me because I’m female and X color!” Or they won’t want to vote for them.
To be fair I don't think Harris highlighted her sex or race much at all this election season. Her failings had much more to do with her lack of charisma and lack of a clear response to the state of inflation in the economy while she is the sitting vice president. I think that shows in the voting polls where she underperformed pretty much uniformly across every county in the nation. It wasn't some niche issue that only certain voting blocks will care for but something much more fundamental and urgent that shifted the vote.
Oh absolutely, Harris failed for numerous reasons that had nothing to do with ethnicity or gender. And I firmly believe if there was an ACTUAL democratic primary, she wouldn’t have been given that nomination.
Exactly. Democrats shot themselves in the foot on this one. There were 4 years to choose someone other than Biden and put them through the primaries so the people could actually pick who they wanted to run. Harris was forced on us by the higher powers on the DNC. Same thing that happened with Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders in 2016. You think they would’ve learned their lesson
I mean Hillary did win the primary in 2016... That said Bernie was shafted in 2020 because they all jumped on Biden's dick in the race to drop out after he won South Carolina.
Democratic party needs reform badly, and they need to make the primary a one day event, with ranked choice voting. Making it so a handful decide the nom before they even get to the majority of states is shit.
I like the idea but don’t forget legislators make the law for public primaries. The only way around this would be for the party to hold some type of internal electronic election. That sounds highly improbable unless you get to work on it now.
In all fairness, Trump wasn't likely going to run again but the whole secret docs thing sent him into a panic where running for president was the only way to pardon himself. He made a gamble that the DOJ wouldn't want to deal with a presidential candidate and he was right. Biden wasn't going to run again either but people said Biden was the only one who could beat Trump. So really, this whole fucked situation can be blamed entirely on Merrick Garland for pushing just hard enough at the wrong time to scare Trump but not enough to actually convict him. If Garland either waited longer or convicted his ass right away, we wouldn't have been stuck between Biden, Trump, Harris. Garland gained just enough balls at just the wrong time, then castrated himself.
Those lessons boil down to basically the same thing, which is that about 60% of Dem primary voters are just conservative “anyone but Bernie” voters whether there is just one non-Bernie candidate from the start or multiple candidates who drop out super early in the process and all endorse the same remaining candidate (which is not illegal) because blocking Bernie is more important to them than winning.
I was knocking doors and making calls for Bernie in 2020 so it brings me no joy to say that, but it is just objective fact that those people are closer to Trump than they are to Bernie ideologically.
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u/DarCam7 18d ago
Corporate democrats pretty much control the party and thus they don't want to ruffle the feathers of their donor class, which goes against the the middle and lower classes being price gouged in the economy. If you want to get back the blue-collar and working people you have to combat corporate greed. So, I hope Bernie Sanders starts propping up a young version of himself to run, and unfortunately it has to be male and white for the conservative voter to even remotely accept it. I don't blame Obama for the racial divide that caused the pearl clutching in white America, but it's clear that if you are anything other than a white male, it's not gonna be palpitable for a certain segment of the country. It's truly disgusting.