Yes, you can trace this back to a few things 1) Newt Gingrich and his distortions around "the contract for America" 2) legalized gerrymandering where politicians (mostly on the right but not all) choose their voters 3) Citizens United that allowed billionaires to buy elections 4) Reagan undoing the "fairness doctrine" which leveled a certain impartiality in our airwaves/media I am sure there are others but... If you were TRULY interested in what you posted, then you would support getting unaccountable money out of politics and particularly dark money PACs, ranked voting and independent state commissions drawing political boundaries, mostly by computers using the compact space doctrine. You would also support the Wyoming Rule that would expand the size of the House of Representatives and bring back the "one person, one vote" that is woefully missing in our representation. These are all things Democrats support. Where are the republicans whom you equate on these issues? Hint...nowhere. |
Again, no equating and "Democrats" and "Republicans" aren't the root of our political problems. Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders were both viable, respectable candidates for Democratic nomination in 2016. Their supporters had every leg to stand on for choosing to support either candidate. The candidates, their platforms, and their supporters were all in line and not problematic in the mind of any reasonable person. Where does the problem come in? That would be the DNC using their money, power, and influence, to stack the odds in Hillary's favor as she had been groomed for many years as their choice for the 2016 candidate. Should the DNC or RNC's roles in elections be to rule certain candidates in and rule some out or should their roles be to create an open and fair playing field for the best of the best candidates to be chosen by the primary voting public? Easy answer as far as I am concerned. Considering what the DNC did to Bernie in 2016, why would anyone in their right mind choose to waste their time and money entering the race for the Democratic nomination in 2024 against the DNC's pre-selected candidate? JFK Jr. and Marianne Williamson...haha. This is an example of how the shenanigans of the RNC and DNC are weakening our Federal Government. Biden is a decent man and not the worst option for president in 2024 by any means, even at 82 years old. That being said; Biden, Williamson, and JFK Jr. aren't the three best possible candidates for president the left can come up with for the 2024 race. No way. No how. What's stopping the left from coming up with a more formidable candidate- the DNC. Yes, the RNC and the some of the ridiculous coming from politicians on the right are noticeably more awful than anything coming from the left but reform is needed on both sides.... end of story. |
The DNC is not what is keeping normal Democrats from running against an incumbent Democratic President. Democrats know that that’s a great way to weaken said incumbent Democratic President so that he loses the general election, and then of having that blamed on them forever therefore ruining their chances of ever becoming President. |
True, it isn't normally a wise long term political decision to run against an incumbent of the same party. I just have a difficult time grasping the notion that Biden, at 82, the guy that was only good enough during his political prime to serve as VP under a one term senator president, is anywhere close the absolute best option we have on the left for president in 2024. |
Bernie Sanders isn’t a Democrat, ergo, he was not a viable candidate for Democratic nomination. If you can’t even grasp this basic fact, then you don’t really have a grasp of anything whatsoever. I’ll go you one further and point out that not only was Bernie not a Democrat, but his campaign stole Clinton’s mailing list information, and even over and above that, he did not bow out gracefully when he lost, nor did he throw his weight behind Clinton once he finally did. He should have understood the damage that Trump and the GOP stood to unleash, but he, insanely selfishly, did nothing to help. |
Every possible offense meant here: you seem to have a lot of trouble grasping a lot of truths about politics. Here is your choice: Biden or whoever the eventual GOP nominee is. That’s the choice. If you don’t vote for Biden, you are voting for the eventual GOP nominee no matter how hard you wish that the Democratic candidate was younger or how much you wish for ranked choice voting or how much you think things should be different. The way forward, the only progress we can make is voting for the Democrats. |
Have that difficult time all you want, but it’s not the DNC’s fault. |
How are you so wrong about everything? How are you completely incapable of blaming just the GOP and the RNC for Trump? I can assure you, the DNC didn’t have a damn thing to do with GOP primary voters electing Trump. Seriously what’s wrong with you? |
+1 Staggeringly stupid analysis by the PP. It's the DNCs fault Trump won the GQP primary!?!? |
Oh the horror that the DNC would stack the deck for a democrat over a candidate who was not a democrat. So lets vote for the Russian-friendly rapist instead, right? |
You don't give up the power if incumbancy even if the candidate is old, unless they WANT to retire. Biden doesn't want to retire. |
many would argue he has had the most consequential presidency since LBJ or Nixon (less Watergate) |
If we had an actually centrist or progressive media instead of the right wing hurricane that we do have, this would be a known thing. He pulled the country out of the Trump induced skid it had entered, and he’s managed to manage the economy despite companies all but openly conspiring to cause inflation. He’s done tons more in addition and it’s a good indicator of how badly the media wants to ding Biden when I, a Biden supporter who has read explainers of what a dang rock star he is, can’t remember them. None of his accomplishments have been touted at all, which is the inverse of how Trump was lauded for “becoming presidential” all the time (never mind the fact that he’d then all but literally take a dump on the dais) while his mistakes were talked about and then never mentioned again. Biden and Harris have had their heads down cleaning up after what the GOP did to the country in general and what Trump probably did in private. Those documents Trump stole were known by the Archives at least to have been stolen, but that wasn’t widely known for a while. There must be hundreds of similar things that Trump did and systems that he broke that not that many people know about. Yet. |
A lot going on here on this thread. What you say is true but Trump is Trump. We'll confront other political problems after he's gone. |
That’s the problem: Trump is the GOP. The GOP is Trump. One supports the other. Trump is not some weird aberration, he’s them. Trump sure didn’t find three dirty judges and he didn’t hold open Obama’s seat, although he did probably convince Kennedy to retire. Every problem that people attribute to Trump is also that of the Republican Party. Both parties are not equally bad. |