Leftism

more than likely, but we should advocate for ranked choice, open primaries alongside advocacy for ranked choice elections. More democracy is always a good thing, and we as leftists shouldn't shy away from something just because the establishment doesn't want it.

if Biden won another primary I probably wouldn't be happy, but that's democracy. At least there would have been a democratic process to determine the candidate.

Biden's not my favorite Democrat, but I will 1000% vote for him in the general. I support a primary even knowing that he would run away with it regardless due to name and incumbency. When I try to tell conservative friends that Trump is a threat to democracy, they point to this as a counterpoint. It's not at all equivalent, but there's just enough hypocrisy that they stop caring. It's a dumb and unnecessary strategy.

That's because Democrats are not liberals. Liberals may be Democrats true. But so are many of us pragmatic social libertarians. And we will never agree on many things. Fundamentally at its core. The Democratic party has long been a coalition party. Even if it's never been properly recognized as that. And that more than anything is one of the bigger problems. Yes, we need to get rid of the first past the post voting system. But that only happens when we acknowledge each other and work together.

Currently those like myself get little more than slower descent into fascism. Which is important don't get me wrong. But it's a hard sell to get many excited about. Much like fixing first passed the post. We also need liberals to acknowledge, and share power. So we can pursue shared goals.

For nearly the last 40 years liberals have run the party like a cabal. Giving away hard won victories for nothing in return. Not strengthening and refining the social safety nets but shredding and destroying. Adding eligibility restrictions and work requirements. All in the name of bipartisanship and reaching across the aisle. To the traditional party of American fascism and the new home of the Confederacy. Rather than acknowledge the rest of us and build allies and relationships that could actually improve things.

Sanders performance in past primaries are a loud signal of just that. But liberals being so completely insecure. That they feel a need to attack him even in pointless, largely unimpactful ways. As Wasserman Schultz did basically performing a Self-Own on the party all in the name of virtue signaling somehow. Because many of them strain so hard to keep their stranglehold on the party that they would choke it out before ever sharing.

Though not all of them. Since Sanders actually was given meaningful and important committee memberships. Despite being a newcomer to the party and an outsider. Someone there at a base level recognizes what needs to happen.

Neo-liberals, boomers are a dying generation. They've managed to silence the voice of us gen xers in general. And largely moderate the voice of millennials. That's why there really aren't many younger names working their way up through the rank in general. Why the bench is growing more and more empty. Because they generally won't and can't share power.

All this bringing us back to the primaries. And why this isn't about the primaries. But about the primaries being the only time, other groups feel that they are even heard now. The only time many neo liberals feel any basic need to even virtue signal to outside groups.

A quick addendum to not sound all doom and gloom. Even if we just hold off the fascists for the next two major election cycles. That is very likely enough that we will see some actual meaningful change. Roughly 1/3 of boomers have died already. In another 8 years we may get well over half of them. Effectively loosening their stranglehold. The question is, will we be ready.

The big assumption here is that whoever republicans put forward next will be better. I generally agree that we all need to vote to prevent fascism but I want to believe there is a line somewhere, cause now it feels like both parties are moving more and more right each election and sooner or later just being more left than the obvious fascist is not going to be good enough.

Already, even if we both want the left to have a unified front, the far left are splintering from the increasingly centrist Dems and the seeming only legal democratic way to convince the party to stop putting forward such centrist options is for that segment to stop voting for them.

I understand that doing that in this election has too high a risk of ending democracy altogether. I just wish I had more confidence that wouldn't also be true in 2028 and 2032 etc.

Quoting the video, "we shouldn't be forced to vote for a deeply unpopular president without a democratic primary because we have a fascism gun pointed at the back of our head".

What good would a primary do? All it would do is confirm to voters that the DNC agrees that the incumbent president is too old, which would undermine their brand and confidence. Moderates would swing to the right, and the person that potentially beats Biden would have to spend time introducing themselves rather than actually campaigning. Trump is an insurrectionist and literally 3 years younger than Biden, yet Biden is the dinosaur and unfit for the presidency?