Biden: There is a place for Haley supporters in my campaign

I would like to introduce the toilet bowl political theory. Some parties are closer to the drain than others, but everyone is slowly circling it.

You can either swim or go down the drain. Either way, you'll find yourself covered in shit.

I mean. AOC. Bernie. They’re pretty left and they’re in office.

I get being cynical, for true. But don’t give up. Winning the election is a new start. We can fix it.

This is quite true, and I’d like to add a bit of context. It’s important to understand why Rs won in that timeframe and what Ds did to try to emulate that success. In short, it’s all about the money Lebowski.

Corporate donors massively favored Republicans in those days. Dems realized that on average, in 96% of the races where a candidate spent more money on ads, that candidate won. So Dems abandoned appealing to their constituents, and instead began appealing to rich donors in order to get more money. This is why campaign finance donations are considered legal bribes, because politicians promise and deliver on favors in exchange for those donations. If they don’t deliver, they lose out on funding for the next election cycle and in turn lose the race.

The margins have slimmed, but the rich still favor Reps more to this day, and Dems haven’t pivoted from that strategy since. All it does is serve to further marginalize people, and cement the oligarchy. This is why we have to reform campaign finance to get money out of politics before we can ever hope to effect positive change, otherwise normal people will never be represented because it’s impossible for us to compete with unlimited money coming from the elites, corporate dark PACs, etc.

although she didn’t seem like someone that wanted a dictatorship like Trump clearly wants.

I'd be surprised if a single Republican on the national stage doesn't want that...

Some are just smart enough to not say it till it's happened. That makes them more dangerous, not less.

Sanders is Chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee….

If he did not support Biden they would take that away from him. He’s doing what he can

And we'll have another fascist running against another candidate whose sole selling point is being second worst to a literal fascist.

Why'd you have to jinx us? Now we're gonna have a half cyborg hyper trump running for office all year every year for the next century.

Hopefully.

You should know better than to levy any sort or critisizm on Democrats or Biden. We're not allowed to do that even on lemmy aparently. They don't like it when you vote third party and they don't like it when you try and make their chosen candidate represent your views. They don't want people like us. They just say they do.