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Vote for the change you want to see.

The Republican party got remade because trumpists showed up and outvoted the party elites. No reason it can't happen for the Left except for laziness and apathy.

If all the progressives furious about the state of affairs now had shown up for Sanders in 2016, I doubt we'd be in this hellish timeline. Sadly, he needed the young progressive vote to show up.

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[-] ianhclark510@lemmy.blahaj.zone -3 points 3 days ago

Maybe in bizzaro land, Harris wasn’t listed on my ballot in 2020

[-] ToucheGoodSir@lemy.lol 6 points 3 days ago

They dont list the VP in your state? Huh.

[-] ianhclark510@lemmy.blahaj.zone -3 points 3 days ago

Yeah, lemme just cast a vote in the VP election?

Are you kidding me?

[-] ToucheGoodSir@lemy.lol 3 points 3 days ago

So you voted for Trump because the Democrats didn't have a primary late into the election season, when the sitting president tapped out cuz old and their VP tapped in? That's wild. I recommend you read up on American political history when it comes to what the whole purpose of the VP is.

[-] ianhclark510@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 days ago

You’re hallucinating, I didn’t vote for Trump, I’m incensed because I didn’t vote for Harris

[-] ToucheGoodSir@lemy.lol 1 points 2 days ago

Ah, you voted for Biden. Gotcha.

[-] Lauchs@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

She was on the ballot in the primaries, which is entirely the point of the post.

[-] TripleZ@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago

So, how many delegates did she get then?

[-] ianhclark510@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 3 days ago

So what, being VP guarantees you as the party nominee in the next election?

[-] Lauchs@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

What on Earth are you trying to say?

Harris and Biden were on the ballot in 2020, as were more progressive candidates. As usual, more moderates and centrists did the boring grown up work of showing up and voting in the primaries and thus, Biden won.

[-] Balls@lemmings.world 3 points 2 days ago

Progressives actually had a huge showing in the 2020 primaries. That's why Bernie won all almost all of the states leading up to Super Tuesday. But wouldn't you know it, something AMAZING happened and ALL of the moderate Democrats dropped out of the race within a single 24 hour span and every single one of them endorsed Joe Biden as they dropped out. BUT another progressive candidate, Elizabeth Warren "decided" to stay in the race when everyone else was dropping out and she hadn't won a single fucking contest. So the progressive vote was split between two candidates (heavily favoring Bernie), but ultimately giving Biden a number of victories on Super Tuesday thereby changing the entire outlook of the rest of the primary in favor of Biden.

But if you look at those vote counts, progressives ABSOLUTELY showed up, but the Spoiler Effect is very real. And it seems the DNC was up to their old tricks trying to shove a candidate down our throats that we didn't want.

Also, don't try to side-step the bullshit of this year's primaries by acting like we got our choice back in 2020 because Biden & Harris were both in THOSE primaries. You know damn well that people were calling for an actual primary in THIS election, they were ignored, Biden became the candidate, and that obviously went completely perfectly. Then we had a fair amount of anxiety about what would happen, and the DNC just got to ordain another candidate of their choosing.

I sincerely hope it works out for us, but the DNC won't have anyone to blame but themselves. Just kidding, they'll definitely blame progressives if they lose again. They always will.

[-] TripleZ@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago

So, how many delegates did she get then?

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