Rep. Dean Phillips (D-Minn.), who has floated a presidential primary contest against President Biden, said Sunday people want to “turn the page” on the incumbent president when it comes to 2024.

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    1 year ago

    I get your feeling, and I’m actually a little bit older than you (so have had to vote for the same boring centrists), but “fuck that” isn’t how you strategically defeat a coalition of rich, Conservative ideologues who have been slowly and tactfully eroding our democracy.

    “People like me” haven’t had their candidate yet win a primary (I’m a progressive socialist), so I’m not sure who you’re referring to.

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      1 year ago

      Fair enough, but again that’s the same kind of thing we’ve been hearing for decades. We heard it about Bernie in the last two elections even though he polled better than Clinton or Biden against Trump. At this point it doesn’t seem like sound advice so much as a means to convince people to vote for someone they don’t actually like based on a vague appeal to the greater good.

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        1 year ago

        Welcome to first past the post voting, where nobody can take any risks for fear of handing the opposition a win by default. Nothing will get better until we overhaul our voting system. We desperately need multiple parties but it’s literally impossible to get there with first past the post.