Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has endorsed President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign, a sign of the president’s strength in uniting his party to have the backing of one of its most liberal members
Well that’s unfortunate. Wish we could find someone other than an old fucking white guy to represent us.
I agree, but generally a party will back a sitting president of that party, additionally division of the Democratic party is what caused trump’s election in the first place.
I wonder if she’s being groomed to be the next candidate. I would like that a lot, but what the Democratic needs right now is unity, because the Republican party is very divided.
If the Democratic party needs unity when the Republicans are divided, when exactly would dissent ever be acceptable? Seems like this is just a pitch to always be unified, which in turn means never challenging the party establishment.
The fact that someone like Biden and Bernie exist in the same party tells you how awful the 2-party system is.
Too be fair - the Biden administration isn’t all bad and I think when they do something good we should acknowledge that so that maybe they keep doing good things. That doesn’t mean I don’t think there are better options, though.
I’m hoping for Newsom 2028. In the meantime, Biden will probably be infinitely better than the alternative in the general election.
There are many that believe Biden won’t run and the seat is being saved for Gavin Newsom.
Barf
She doesn’t have a choice because the party isn’t allowing a primary.
They know they have a captive audience. As shitty as Biden is, he’s obviously better than any Republican and 3rd party doesn’t have a chance.
The party would rather risk depressing turnout than someone progressive winning a primary
There is no progressive that could win the primary anyway. The risk the establishment is guarding against is about damaging Biden. I don’t feel confident about his chances against anyone but Trump, but there just isn’t an alternative politician with the strength to challenge him as an incumbent. He simply hasn’t been bad enough for weakly ideological primary voters to vote against the incumbent and the names with the biggest progressive gravitas already lost against him last time without that hindrance.
In 2020 29 candidates entered the Dem primary…
I’m pretty sure most are still around here somewhere
But between this in your other reply I already got, I’m picking up a pattern
Systems broken, it’s her only option. If she endorses a progressive challenger to Biden she is basically saying she wants trump or desantis to be the next president. I am sure she is aware of this
Vote in more progressive candidates to congress and the house so that actual electoral reform has a hope of passing. The small contingency they hold is pointless from a legislative standpoint but promising in terms of growth over the past decade and a half or so. The more bodies we get in there the more actual shit might happen; but unless we displace neolibs and conservatives these stupid games will continue to be necessary
Damn, I really had hope for the Justice Dems, but this is just sadge.
Is she pulling an Elizabeth Warren and thinking this will help secure her a cabinet position?.. oof.
Because Biden isn’t working for the people, he works for his corporate donors. He won’t take action to materially improve our lives, and we deserve better leadership than that. We deserve a progressive who will beat him in the primaries and begin to right the wrongs of neoliberalism.
Justice Dems like AOC falling in line will not further that cause, and it makes me sad because I had hoped for more from her.
What do you think would be better?
Considering in our political system a 3rd party doesn’t have a chance, and the Democratic party is refusing to hold a primary…
What other option is there besides endorsing Biden?
It’s a fair question asked in a dark time for our nation.
I guess my answer would be: do anything but fall in line with corporate Dems. Publicly demanding a primary since Biden reneged on yet another campaign promise of being 1 term would be a good start.
Publicly demanding a primary since Biden reneged on yet another campaign promise of being 1 term would be a good start.
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That would be used to poison voters against progressives for decades.
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If you think that has a chance in hell of doing anything besides helping trump… It actually explains you’re first comment, I understand why you think that’s a good idea. You’re wrong of course tho
Why doesn’t AOC run? I’d vote for her. I’ve been impressed with her job so far
I think they know she can’t win right now. No real progressive can yet. They need to build up her record more and let more of the old neo-libs die off first.
Bullshit. It’s because they don’t want a real progressive to win. They did everything they could to keep Bernie from winning when he ran. The left wing of our government is further right than the right was 50 years ago, and the DNC will do whatever they have to do to keep it that way.
Run in the primary the party isn’t allowing?
She can’t run in something that doesn’t exist.
Run 3rd party in the general?
Progressives tend to care enough about America they won’t hand the election to trump
If someone big declared (AOC included), the party would have to run a primary, because arbitrarily shutting them out would be more damaging than debates and internal dissent, but all the big names know they couldn’t win a primary and would only hurt Biden in the general so they’re falling in behind him. As long as it’s joke challengers like RFK Jr. and Marianne Williamson though, they can scrap it without worry.
AOC is 33 years old. You have to be at least 35 years old to run for president.
2028 would be the earliest that she would be viable on one condition. If millenials and Gen Z voted Democratic nearly 100%. Ideally, this should happen because that would mean 2-3 red states and every other state is blue. So, we’re going to have to wait for 2032 at the earliest or 2036 for AOC to have her time to shine. I’d gladly vote for her.
Did anyone expect anything different? I don’t recall incumbent presidents ever having a real primary.
Jimmy Carter did-- Ted Kennedy challenged him for the 1980 presidential nomination. The result was them doing so much damage to each other that the ultimate winner of the primary (Carter) came out battered and bruised, giving Reagan the edge he needed to win the general. And we all know how well that worked out for the planet. (Spoiler alert: horrifically.)
That was the opposite tho…
That was “moderate” party leaders trying to sabotage a progressive at any cost.
That fucked America up reeeeeeeally badly. But the people who decided to do it got what they wanted: an excuse to tell voters that progressives can’t win.
hat was “moderate” party leaders trying to sabotage a progressive at any cost.
Wait, what? I thought Jimmy Carter was considered really progressive for his time. And Ted Kennedy wasn’t some perfect progressive hero, he had some pretty major blemishes on his record like Chappaquiddik. So I always saw it as more pointless infighting than any kind of centrist-vs-progressive showdown like 2016.
Then again, my parents were in high school when all this was going down, so my knowledge is obviously pretty limited, lol.
That was “moderate” party leaders trying to sabotage a progressive at any cost.
Wait, what? I thought Jimmy Carter was considered really progressive for his time. And Ted Kennedy wasn’t some perfect progressive hero, he had some pretty major blemishes on his record like Chappaquiddik. So I always saw it as more pointless infighting than any kind of centrist-vs-progressive showdown like 2016.
Then again, my parents were in high school when all this was going down, so my knowledge is obviously pretty limited, lol.
