• mercano@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I get that people want a more progressive candidate. I’ve voted for Bernie multiple times. However, if people wanted to challenge Biden, they should have contested the Primaries. Doing it now is just throwing a wrench in the works. In the current environment, I always wonder if some of this noise is a disinformation campaign from Russia trying to prop up Trump

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      2 months ago

      This isn’t about wanting a more progressive candidate, this is about wanting a candidate who’s not in cognitive decline. The DNC and administration intentionally kept that information from voters. They even punished Dean Phillips, the one serious Democrat who tried to contest the primaries, by forcing him out of leadership and primarying him.

      I want a real progressive, but this point, I will take any corporate centrist they throw at me: Harris, Buttigieg, whatever. But Biden was propped up by the DNC, his diminished facilities are now apparent, and he will lose to Trump. He must be replaced if we’re to have any shot of winning in November.

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      2 months ago

      They did. There was a lot of uncommitted voters. Enough of them that they actually have delegates at the convention.