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[–] bobman@unilem.org 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (32 children)

Can't we just vote for younger candidates?

Doesn't make sense to subvert the will of the people when they clearly support this.

Also, her age isn't what makes her shit. She's a corporate democrat just looking out for different rich people.

[–] LethalSmack@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (9 children)

The problem is that this isn’t the will of the people. Preliminaries don’t count as an election so your vote for which candidate that appears on the actual ballot is just a suggestion.

The party committees gets final say on who’s on the ballot for that party to vote for.

Which leads to the problem of the 2 party system where we vote for the least worst candidate

[–] bobman@unilem.org 4 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Then vote for independents, or people whose parties don't pull that shit.

[–] kittenbridgeasteroid@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah, you might as well not vote. You're never going to sway enough people to vote independent to challenge one of the big two, especially since the choice right now is between old people or people trying to establish a fascist theocracy.

[–] bobman@unilem.org 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Alright, then these problems don't get solved.

[–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Now, you’re getting it.

You are correct. Voting isn't going to solve this problem.

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