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“Will you vote for Biden in the 2024 election?” [Y/N]

  • Yggnar@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Man, some wild assumptions here. Who said I don’t intend to vote? I just don’t think Biden is the horse the party should keep backing. It’s insane to me that he’s going for another term, and that the party isn’t demanding other candidates to be on the ballot. The Democratic party has turned into the old conservatives now that extremism has overtaken the Republicans, and it fucking sucks that there isn’t a third choice. We shouldn’t be rolling over and accepting that because “that’s just how the system is”. We shouldn’t be pretending Biden is the best we can do.

    • Asafum@feddit.nl
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      9 months ago

      I shouldn’t have assumed your specific position, but in general that language comes from someone who behaves as I mentioned. We don’t have a choice right now, we don’t have that luxury. I do agree that we should have an option, but in general parties don’t run opposition to the incumbent because they know the incumbent won once, people generally are accepting of the individual as they reflect on their performance (as long as it isn’t abhorrent) and so tossing in a “new” candidate comes with too many risks. Maybe the primary challenger wins within the party, but then the moderates or nevertrumpers can’t stomach the new choice and sit it out or worse go back to Trump (or whoever). That’s pretty much why we generally don’t see primary challenges between terms of a president.