Biden’s “Democracy” Defense Ignores Un-Democratic Way He Became the Nominee
Biden’s “Democracy” Defense Ignores Un-Democratic Way He Became the Nominee
Fewer people voted in the primaries this year than in 2020, and Biden ran virtually unopposed within those contests.
Im starting to notice a pattern of stuff you're posting.
I literally just replied back to one of your posts which was a pro gun advert pretending to be feel good news
Are all of your posts going to be pro GOP posts masquerading as something else
Let's talk about how Trump is the primary nominee, and he raped a woman and threatens everyone.
There's literally no reason that Biden can't be a good leader. He's demonstrated it over the past few years. And it's normal for the current president to be given a second shot.
Fairly sure It's not normal for a president who lost his second term votes to try a 3rd time
The only real objection most people could arguably make for Biden is regarding Israel
At the time of writing, Auzy’s accusation has a score of 10 and your comeback has a score of 3. Three times as many people seem to disbelieve your intentions as believe them.
Were I in your position, this is the sort of thing that would make me question why it is I come off this way. A good starting place would be to actually respond to specific criticisms of this material rather than using memes as thought-terminating cliches.
See, I don’t think you are being deceptive but I am worried that you post articles without thinking of those posts as coming from you just because other people actually wrote the articles. You got accused of being deceptive because you posted articles that are themselves deceptive and then you ran that accusation against your own intentions rather than the material in question. But the truth is that these words become yours when you share them uncritically so you are responsible for their content.
"Let's talk about how Trump is the primary nominee, and he raped a woman and threatens everyone. "
Go for it, make another thread about how dumb it is to vote for Trump. You can do that. People do it all the time. We are talking about a different person in a different party.
"There's literally no reason that Biden can't be a good leader. He's demonstrated it over the past few years. And it's normal for the current president to be given a second shot."
Not representing a majority in policy and having a super low approval rating isn't a reason he can't be a good leader? Is there any reason my neice can't be a good leader? Also, it is not normal for the president to be this old. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_presidents_of_the_United_States_by_age The president should be between 45 years old and 65 years old.
"The only real objection most people could arguably make for Biden is regarding Israel"
This is a wild take. The only possible reason that is REAL is this one issue!
court takes away bodily autonomy from 51% of the population
government does nothing to pass a law to fix it after Biden campaigned on fixing it
"There is not a single reason anyone has to be mad at Biden!"
Bro.
Not representing a majority in policy and having a super low approval rating isn't a reason he can't be a good leader? Is there any reason my neice can't be a good leader? Also, it is not normal for the president to be this old.
The approval rating polling is questionable not to mention so many people just blanket disapprove of the guy they didn't vote for in the current political climate.
Not representing a majority in policy is almost definitely a lie, especially when you consider the wide margin the Democratic platform wins in terms of the popular vote.
Much of what Biden's admin has actually "done" to the extent that any president really "does anything" is pretty popular in my view, infrastructure investment, domestic manufacturing investment, alliance building, defense of Ukraine, reduction of dependence on foreign energy, debt relief, etc
court takes away bodily autonomy from 51% of the population
government does nothing to pass a law to fix it after Biden campaigned on fixing it
And this is where our civics competency completely fails us. There is very little Biden can do here by himself, we have a Republican controlled house. What is he supposed to do? He has no legal authority to do anything at the federal level.
Are all of your posts going to be pro GOP posts masquerading as something else
Bruh are you real with this one? I am in the crew posting "Biden should step down" posts, and I am as far from the GOP as one can get. Even if you grant that Biden has been a stellar president (and I am a full-throated believer there), the fact remains that critical, swing voters think that he is too old to effectively lead. The GOP has been pumping the airwaves with that message, and then Biden hand-delivered the bow on top with his debate performance. It doesn't matter if the State of the Union was "firey", and it doesn't matter if interviews after showcase that he still has the mind of a 40-year-old (he doesn't). Biden flubbed it at his most critical moment for this election, and now he is no longer the best candidate to take on Trump. Add-on the fact that corporate price gouging is out of control, and a lot of these swing voters perceive that as "the economy is bad under Joe Biden". I will vote for whichever Dem is on the ballot in November, and I suspect that @Five@slrpnk.net will as well. But we're all rightly terrified that the Dems are bringing a rusty knife to a gun fight.
Incumbent President almost always runs unopposed. That being said, he ran as the adult in the room to get us back from the right, and was NOT expected to run for reelection.
I am still going to vote for the D nominee out of pure spite for the right...but something has to give, there needs to be voting reform before the next general which incluudes ranked choice or at some point the choices will ne worse than this time around.
Incumbent President almost always runs unopposed. That being said, he ran as the adult in the room to get us back from the right, and was NOT expected to run for reelection.
True enough, but I also don't think during the 2020 election, anybody thought that if Trump lost, at practically 80 years old, he would be the R candidate in the 2024 election as well.
I honestly wish the right wasn't so regressive, crazy, and having such a hold on half the country. I'd love to vote for someone else for president, but the risk of the right winning is just too damaging.
It was the Dems initiative to get someone else to go but just did nothing but ride the coattails
That being said, he ran as the adult in the room to get us back from the right, and was NOT expected to run for reelection.
I don't know where this idea started, it's certainly something I expected him to do.
From his campaign saying it in 2019 and 2022, though he avoided making it a promise (not that a promise would mean anything coming from a politician anyways).
This was explicitly used as an argument to boost him over other younger candidates in the 2020 primary field.
Yes. Clearly it is undemocratic for the person who won the last presidential election to sit as an incumbent.
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I mean, yes? Just because it's a precedent here doesn't make it democratic.
It's literally a practice that denies or heavily suppresses having a healthy crop of new primary candidates to vote for, which makes the party much less responsive to voter sentiment changes.
8 years is a LONG time, and yeah, a lot of people who felt that a candidate represented them 4 years ago may not feel they do anymore, and they still deserve the same chance to democratically decide who represents them.
Without that happening in the primary, their only options are to get no say in their candidate, withhold their vote, or vote for another party, in the general election.
Would you say more on this? Specifically the connection between democratic/undemocratic and incumbents.
Its ok for political parties to choose their candidates. The problem is the two party system. No one is confused that the US is not a direct democracy.
Honestly, I think we'd be better off if we got rid of primaries. I do think they tend to lead to more extreme/radical/fringe nominees, since the party candidates try to out compete each other on their party/ideology bona fides. Maybe it is better if go back to the party establishments picking a candidate.
There are other reason as well. One is that parties are private organizations. So why does a government often run them? I know that's not true all states. In some states, the primaries/caucuses are almost entirely run and organized by the parties. But in others, primaries are done by state and local governments. Do the parties pay the state back for this? Idk. Regardless, still seems strange.
I mean, has there been an instance where someone else within the party snipes the nomination before the second term?
Two that I know of.
Both landslide losses at the polls.
