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It Will Be an Election Unlike Any We’ve Lived Through. Are the Democrats Prepared?
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this post was submitted on 01 Jan 2024
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No they won't. I'm still not hearing of any credible candidates the Democrats are putting forth.
3 Candidates. Just, 3 candidates.
Help us all.
"We live in a Democracy!"
"I need to wait to see who they put forward for me to vote for..."
True only in theory
The DNC (and RNC) both operate as businesses in practice and will put forth oppositions in specific races that are more advantageous for specific donors. These backed members are heavily funded the up winning most the time, despite often being worse candidates.
Recently Tim Burchet was threatened by the RNC to heavily fund an opposition in his next race and he upset the military industrial complex donors attempting to pursue the UAP investigation SCIF.
Also pretty visible in 2016 when Bernie was leading the Democratic primary race until the DNC backed Hilary which massively turned the entire race. You can argue that she would've won anyways, which is a fair argument. But the reason it wasn't close was the DNC backing.
If we can absolve all lobbying then I'll agree that we live closer to a democracy, but right now we're very plutocratic.