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We're not sleepwalking into anything. The DNC is running a less attractive candidate...there's not shit we can do about it at this point.
No they aren't. Biden is a fine president. And he's objectively far more effective at leading a Republic than Trump.
Democrats are just using that as an excuse to avoid changing anything. It doesn't matter to them that it's false.
Why would the DNC, or any fucking party, switch out the incumbent? that's like having the option for home field advantage and not choosing it. There's not been a lot of presidents that have lost their reelection campaign (which of course happened to Trump). So now we are going to rehash the same fight that Trump lost, with himself using the exact same plan, but now under several felony investigations ranging from state and federal. Why give Trump any advantage at all by running a new candidate? So Republicans can say that "Biden was actually moderate but new mythical Democrate candidate is way worse will take away your guns, and destroy the country as you know it!" That's how Trump won against Clinton, using the fear that she's a more dangerous president than Trump. If you vote 3rd party, best case scenario you have no affect on the election. Worst case is your vote, and others who may have voted for Biden, effectively gave votes to Trump by voting 3rd party. The US voting system punishes you for voting 3rd party, that won't change until our voting system is updated (which I would like)
Man if only there was a primary process that decided who the incumbent would be and that awarded the seat based on who the most attractive candidate was, and if only people who stake their credibility as allies on how the DNC forces "unattractive" candidates showed up to those primaries instead of letting them be yet another example of how the right most element wins when you don't turn out and it's your fault for not turning out!
Do you remember the DNC getting sued over that fantastic idea you have there? I do...they lost that suit, and here we are.
What I remember is a bunch of people who didn't turn out blaming their own deciding not to vote in the primary on "DNC meddling"
Believe it or not, the DNC doesn't decide for you if you vote in the primaries or not.
If you spent a tenth of the energy voting that you do justifying why you shouldn't have to for everything to just go your way anyways, Bernie would have won both times and he'd have had a house and senate with a large enough margin to get shit passed regardless of in party dissent.
Again...they lost a lawsuit that says otherwise.
What the idiot are you talking about? Biden is by every metric, a far superior president.