In retrospect, maybe we should have had a Primary debate after all
We need to every election.
Bernie pulled Biden’s campaign (if nothing else) to the left, which helped Biden in an incredibly close general.
The primary is a chance for party voters to show what they want, and the winning candidate then knows where his bread is buttered.
With no primary, there’s no one to pull Biden left, and he cant afford to lose any votes from 2020.
But this time Biden doesn’t give a fuck what voters say unless they’re saying how great he is. It’s the same sense of entitlement that cost Hillary her election and got trump his first term.
Maybe the party needs to adopt bylaws saying that there shall be no fewer than three candidates in any Presidential primary, even for an incumbant. That will take away a bit of the stigma against challenging an incumbent. It would no longer be a direct challenge to the establishment, and more of a party role to fill.
The stigma of primary challenges exists because old guard Dems want everything to run off seniority, because they have the seniority.
And you could kind of make that argument when it was capping out at 30 years experience.
Biden has been in the federal government for about half a century.
When there’s no cap to age, people hang around waiting for their turn, which clogs senior positions and prevents you get generations from getting experience.
It all comes down to old people refusing to step aside for the next generations, and those old people all agreeing that they should hold onto power till they die in office.
They won’t step aside, so for the good of the party, they need to be set aside.
Voters are more important than any party. We don’t need them, they need us.
We need to every election.
Bernie pulled Biden’s campaign (if nothing else) to the left, which helped Biden in an incredibly close general.
The primary is a chance for party voters to show what they want, and the winning candidate then knows where his bread is buttered.
With no primary, there’s no one to pull Biden left, and he cant afford to lose any votes from 2020.
But this time Biden doesn’t give a fuck what voters say unless they’re saying how great he is. It’s the same sense of entitlement that cost Hillary her election and got trump his first term.
We’re just repeating 2016
Maybe the party needs to adopt bylaws saying that there shall be no fewer than three candidates in any Presidential primary, even for an incumbant. That will take away a bit of the stigma against challenging an incumbent. It would no longer be a direct challenge to the establishment, and more of a party role to fill.
The stigma of primary challenges exists because old guard Dems want everything to run off seniority, because they have the seniority.
And you could kind of make that argument when it was capping out at 30 years experience.
Biden has been in the federal government for about half a century.
When there’s no cap to age, people hang around waiting for their turn, which clogs senior positions and prevents you get generations from getting experience.
It all comes down to old people refusing to step aside for the next generations, and those old people all agreeing that they should hold onto power till they die in office.
They won’t step aside, so for the good of the party, they need to be set aside.
Voters are more important than any party. We don’t need them, they need us.