The democrats haven’t held a legitimate primary since 2008!

In 2008 it was a genuine competition between Obama, Hillary, and a handful of other lesser known politicians. Obama won the general in a landslide.

In 2012 Obama ran unopposed. Obama won the general.

In 2016 the democrats rigged the primary against sanders for Hillary, and to absolutely no one’s surprise who was paying attention, Hillary lost the general. Why? she didn’t genuinely win the primary. Shocking!

In 2020, refusing to learn mistakes from 2016, the democrats once again screwed over bernie and didn’t run a legitimate primary - rigged it so that all the candidates except no-path-to-win Warren exited the race to split the progressive vote away from bernie. Joe biden won by the skin of his teeth, and he would of lost if it weren’t for the country reacting to trumps handling of covid.

In 2024, once again refusing to learn the democrats didn’t even bother with a primary, ran an old demented geezer as a presidential candidate, realized that wasn’t going to work, and then anointed unelected Kamala Harris who didn’t even need to compete in a primary.

And they’re shocked they lost?! These people make way too much money to be this stupid.

  • Passerby6497@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Good fucking luck with that. Too many people view their spotless moral record as being more important than outcomes or improving lives (/not actively making things worse).

    Misanthropy is the only real outcome to this sort of behavior.

    • inv3r510n@lemmy.worldOP
      1·
      2 months ago

      “Spotless moral record”

      BRO WE ARE FUNDING A FUCKING GENOCIDE WHILE WE HAVE RECORD HOMELESSNESS, DEATHS OF DESPAIR, WORSENING CLIMATE CHANGE, LACK OF HEALTHCARE, ILLITERACY, WOMEN DYING IN CHILDBIRTH AT RATES NOT SEEN IN THE FIRST WORLD.

      But go off smug liberal fascist.

      • Passerby6497@lemmy.worldEnglish
        01·
        2 months ago

        And instead of doing something even remotely helpful, they let the genocide harder guy win.

        But go off, accelerationist, go ahead and tell me how this makes things better. And keep using the word fascist, maybe someday you’ll learn the meaning.

        • GlobalCompatriot@lemm.eeEnglish
          1·
          2 months ago

          Everyone that screams accelerationist seems to be ok with the incrementalism that turned Democrats into full fledged right wing fascists.

          • inv3r510n@lemmy.worldOP
            1·
            2 months ago

            Exactly! They’re courting dick fucking Cheney rather than listen at all to their base, and have the fucking nerve to chastise us for voting wrong?! fuck these shit ass liberals!

            • GlobalCompatriot@lemm.eeEnglish
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              1 month ago

              They had some insane idea that they were pushing their politicians left, when in reality they were getting pulled to the right.