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[–] MindSkipperBro12@lemmy.world 12 points 8 months ago (8 children)

It’s Biden or Bust, bud.

Victory or Death.

[–] ringwraithfish@startrek.website 7 points 8 months ago (7 children)

See, here's an example of someone who thinks Biden is perfect! CULT CULT CULT /s

If Dems ran a viable alternative to Biden then it's likely they would have the nomination. Unfortunately, the DNC set their strategy and have no choice but to see it through to the end at this point.

Best thing Republicans could do is run Nikki Haley. She has a real chance of pulling centrists to the right against Biden and his age.

[–] Neato@ttrpg.network 8 points 8 months ago (5 children)

If Dems ran a viable alternative to Biden then it’s likely they would have the nomination.

There's a primary and no one is even close. There are no good alternatives mostly because no one is dumb enough to run against an incumbent. If Biden was not seeking nomination then yeah. But the bias towards incumbents is too strong to take a chance like that on. You'll just end up with an otherwise viable candidate losing by 50-60% and looking terrible. Potentially torpedoing their chances next cycle.

[–] GilgameshCatBeard@lemmy.ca 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

It’s always good to see some ELI5 to the people here. It’s such a fundamentally obvious fact about how things work, but even on a base level- people just don’t get how that works.

Thanks for spelling it out. Hopefully it helps some people under how things work.

[–] Nudding@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Maybe we're out of time for business as usual lesser of two evils bullshit.

[–] LesserAbe@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

There's where we'd like to be, and there's where we are actually at. I want ranked choice voting, I want third party candidates, I think Biden is decent but not amazing. I'm still going to vote for him out of self interest and preservation.

[–] Nudding@lemmy.world 0 points 8 months ago
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