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Republicans will vote Republican no matter what.

Dem voters have always needed a candidate they like and/or agree with to turnout en mass and get the Dem elected.

It makes zero sense to keep blaming Dem voters for having standards instead of blaming party leaders for continuingly shoving candidates we don’t like down our throats.

There is zero reason to keep pushing unpopular candidates.

But because we all held our noses for Biden 4 years ago, he got to nominate DNC leadership and he picked idiots who say Biden is our only shot.

Holding our noses and voting for a candidate whose not for basic parts of the party platform, just moves the party platform and makes it even harder to get votes the next election.

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“Party leaders” did not shove Biden down our throats. Unless you’re arguing that the party leaders of the dems are all the suburban soccer moms of the countries, and their consistency at voting. Then yes, that’s true.

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The party literally refused to hold any primary debates, or even primary elections in several states. They gave people no chance to even consider other candates.

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And why? Because Dean Philips was doing so strongly, garnering appeal from progressives with his centrist positions?

If you want strong candidates, they need to run. If nobody good runs, then I think we’ve found the problem.

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