Comment by Toastypickle@lemmy.world on it's a big deal jack

Biden is the incumbent so obviously the only one that can possibly win. Crush all other prospects and tell them to wait their turn

Nobody stopped people from running, though. In fact people did run they just lost like primaries are supposed to work?

Pretty sure they dropped out one by one due to political pressure

Really? They didn’t drop out because of lackluster polling? Can you point to them rapidly rising in national approval ratings?

No candidate would ever win a primary against an incumbent president. Which is why the right decision would’ve been for Biden not to run.

Name one real option the democrats has promoted.

The fact is that the democratic Party went all in on Biden early one and has refused to promote anyone else

Yes there’s been a few candidates, but they are all largely unknown and no effort has been made to seriously bring them up.

It’s news to me that “democrats” (???) have to promote a candidate as opposed to a candidate running and captivating the primaries electorate… You know… As Barack Obama did in 2007.

Yes there’s been a few candidates, but they are all largely unknown and no effort has been made to seriously bring them up.

Well I’m sorry but beggars can’t be choosers.

You could’ve run; why didn’t you?

But this beside the point, considering the goalpost has moved a mile from “The DNC didn’t allow anyone else to run.” lol. People here need a lesson in basic civics, clearly.

That’s a lot of words in defence of a broken system.

Name one real option the democrats has promoted.

Monkey paw curls a finger

DNC: We’re please to announce Hillary Clinton will be the Democratic Presidential Nominee!

I get so tired of seeing people hand-wave away democracy like it’s some kind of amateur sport. This is not how fair and impartial primaries are ran. We can recognize the tech-monopolies and the unfair practices (and untold wealth) they use to squash competition but when it comes to elections? shrug

Even Bernie Sanders could’ve run again if he wanted to, but he chose not to. Nobody at the DNC “forced” him to not run as was suggested.

Aside from his age being an issue for him just as much as Biden, he knew that challenging the Democrat incumbent would just split the support he desperately needs further.

more hand-waving, “anyone can make a video platform”. No, you need infrastructure, SEO attention, Creators, etc etc. You don’t just “decide” to run in elections, the bar for entry is beyond anything a citizen or even most politicians can accrue. Bernie Sanders fell in line a long time ago with the same party he openly said was unfairly treating elections. Vote Biden if that’s your choice and I fully support that, but we need to stop sugar coating and pretending everything is A-ok in the DNC if we ever want an elected official who represents the average voter in the party.

More hand-waving, indeed.

Bernie Sanders whose convictions and experience are without question understands the game better than anyone here, I suspect.

I’m okay with saying the DNC has poor strategy. But that is independent from claiming they prevented anyone from running. So I say again, NOBODY FORCED anyone to NOT Run, and zero evidence to the contrary has been provided. This is an obvious wedge-driving issue that originates from right-wing and foreign operatives intending to wedge-drive the Democratic coalition. Please, don’t drink the kool-aid.

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jfc, stop falling back to the easiest and lowest form of defense because of “rightwing and foreign operatives”. This is a conversation between you and I. Bernie Sanders understands the game better than anyone here, and had to fall in line… how is that not a statement against what you’re proposing here?

furthermore any challengers are just giViNg tHe eLeCtIoN to trump

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