• ceenote@lemmy.world
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    DNC Leadership: We won’t have a real primary, that’ll weaken the incumbent, who’ll probably win anyway. And remember, if you don’t get behind our anointed candidate, you’re anti-democratic.

    The numbers are already coming in, the debate hurt Biden, and badly. Why does “Democracy is on the line” only mean voters are required to show up to vote for whoever DNC Leadership chose for us? Why do they have no obligation to put their best foot forward?

    They’re gonna bet democracy on “We don’t really have a plan to turn this around, we’re just gonna keep doing what we’ve been doing and hope things get better.” The man is ancient, his brain is not gonna suddenly start improving. People know how aging works, and know that even if he never flops that badly on camera again, it’s just because he was never on camera at the wrong time.

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      It’s 4 months before the election.

      Edit: Look at this - a classic case of a basic fact being down voted on Lemmy.

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        And every day he holds off on giving up the nomination is a day his actually viable replacement is deprived of. The latest DNC internal polling shows him even farther behind in swing states and on the verge of losing some reliably blue states.

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        And the national convention hasn’t happened yet. He’s not officially the candidate until appointed at the convention.

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          I guess the point is that to replace Biden would drive chaos that would last longer than 4 months and be self defeating.

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        Edit: Look at this - a classic case of a basic fact being down voted on Lemmy.

        Fuck off with that. People aren’t downvoting a basic fact, they’re downvoting the implication that 4 months means we’re stuck with Biden.