• Savaran@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Vote for administrations not single candidates. Trump and his previous administration, and future administration are clearly rotten to the core on every single subject.

    Biden can be old and his administration is still one of the best this country has had. Sure it’s not perfect but none of them will be perfect for everyone, but only one of these two groups is interested in making sure anyone can even try to vote for closer to perfect again in the future. Trump’s entire group has made it plain that even if there’s voting in the future it will only be for those they deem worthy (rich enough) for the privilege. That alone is enough to vote for the Democrats this round.

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      2 months ago

      That alone is enough to vote for the Democrats this round.

      I disagree. Dems have to do better than “vote for our clearly-terrible-but-less-terrible-than-the-other-terrible guy”. Their messaging is bad. The attacking of people who aren’t convinced to vote for Joe Biden is bad. The “shut up and fall in line” attitude is bad.

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    I don’t get why people say that he should stay in the race at this point. He’s going to lose. The best bet is to kick him to the curb and get a better candidate. One who’s not 120 years old and is wholly unlikable.

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      Kamala Harris is the only one I could see being a replacement, but it might be too late for that switch to actually work. Then again, it would be too late for any switch to actually work in that case, so I guess we’d have to hope that Americans would willingly vote in a mixed Black & Asian American woman as president. Considering most of the population are probably sexist enough for it to affect their voting patterns, on top of 70% of the population being white and mostly also probably having a subconscious racial bias affecting their voting, I don’t have much hope with that working even if they did do it…

      I would say “if Roe vs. Wade made most women realized how close to danger they are in this election, it could work”, but if that were the case then they’d already be voting blue no matter who. So idk, all it takes is for like 60% of white people to vote Republican to elect Trump as long as they win key swing states. The only way to prevent that from happening is mobilizing the non-white voterbase & the progressive women voterbase in important states, like what happened in Georgia in the 2020 election. But with progressive voters seeming extremely disillusioned with Democrats now, might not happen.

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        2 months ago

        It might be a bit early, but I could see AOC stepping up if the Dems were to put a huge campaign behind her.

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    Look, I am voting for the Democrat nominee no matter who it is, but I feel like this is why we should have primaries so we don’t end up in a situation where we are finding out that the presumptive nominee is not always coherent.

    March was the time to raise and have these concerns, not July.

  • RandomLegend [He/Him]@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 months ago

    Why don’t you americans have some younger and more capable people to vote for?

    Why are you voting for nearly dead person and a liiiiiiiittle bit less nearly dead person that is also one of the most stupid beings on this planet?

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      Because America isn’t a democracy, it’s governed by 2 parties that service Capital above all else and presents preselected candidates that don’t represent the interests of the people.

      You can vote third party, but this is actively discouraged by both the establishment and the broader public, even if the broader public wishes it could happen. This provides an illusion of choice thay ultimately makes no material difference.

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        You can choose someone else. A lot of people just say this same rhetoric and make everyone else feel hopeless.

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          Strategically speaking, voting for a 3rd party in the US system means throwing away your vote. Which means even less people are going to vote 3rd party and the cycle continues.

          The 2 options must be REALLY unpopular in order for a 3rd party to even start to have a chance.

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      Because they let old people vote while not going out to vote themselves and prefer to complain on the internet about the results instead of getting involved.