So then they’re doing exactly what he said we should do, but since the protests undermine Biden’s electoral chances it means they are underestimating the threat of Trump.
If we can’t allow Democrats to ever lose, how exactly do we fight?
By voting in primaries.
There’s more than just the president. Local elections and specifically primaries are what reshape the representative body.
I agree primaries are a great way to influence candidates.
That’s probably why the Democratic party effectively cancelled them this year.
Really? They cancelled local primaries? That’s news to me.
Or do you just mean that they didn’t have a significant primary for a sitting party candidate for President, just like pretty much every candidate in history in that same position for any party?
I too would have liked a serious primary for this year, but that would have been a significant exception, not the rule.
The only way it really would have happened is if Biden decided not to run at all.
By voting in primaries
You mean like I’ve been doing for 24 years with no measurable effect? And get told that the person I support in the primary isn’t electable so I’m letting the Republicans win?
The thing about voting is that other people get to do it too. Your candidates didn’t get the most votes. Do you think they should have won anyway, because you liked them the most?
By voting in primaries
Guess you don’t follow politics much. The teabaggers followed that formula and eventually took control of the GOP in form of MAGA. It takes time and commitment otherwise you just get what others create. This isn’t an instant gratification thing. Voting a couple of times isn’t going to cut it.
No measurable effect? You sure there’s not one single decent person in either the Senate or the House? Or if there are, then how did they get there…?
By voting in primaries AND supporting good candidates down stream, but FIRST we must vote to ensure we will be able to do this. If the young people don’t vote and fuck up their future, it’s their future in the toilet.
By voting in primaries
You’re making an assumption here that if progressives and leftists managed to get decent candidates through the primaries the moderates and liberals who we will still depend on to win general elections will show up to vote for them. That confidence is absolutely baseless.
