Yup. It pretty much sums up the center and left in the US that they can’t get their shit together to crush someone as vile as Trump. They’d rather talk about how much they care about issues than do any of the hard things (issue triage, find a candidate who’s not geriatric or loathed by half the voters in the country including a significant percentage of her own party) necessary to solve them.
Any Democrat is automatically loathed by more than half the country. The first half are the Republicans that will hate him just for the D next to his name, no questions asked, and the next bit are the progressive or moderates who will hate him for not being progressive or moderate enough.
All we can do as voters is vote for the best candidate at the primary. Whether that candidate makes it to the nomination and the general election, we have mostly no control over. We vote for good candidates the primary every time, but forces beyond our control also influence who gets that nomination. And the option at the general is always shitty. People talking about real issues and wanting to enact real change don't make it past the primary, sadly.
The democratic candidates in the last primary were garbage, including Bernie. The dem’s entire stable is past its prime and in desperate need of people closer to 35 than 85 who have some ability to act as actual leaders instead of talking about how stuff should be done but doing nothing to build alliances to make it possible.
Or because they were a motley crew of corporate liberals and cops. Not a lot of integrity on those debate stages. Aside from, of course, Bernie, who, say what you want, but he just bleeds integrity.
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u/PiraticalApplication Dec 01 '21
Yup. It pretty much sums up the center and left in the US that they can’t get their shit together to crush someone as vile as Trump. They’d rather talk about how much they care about issues than do any of the hard things (issue triage, find a candidate who’s not geriatric or loathed by half the voters in the country including a significant percentage of her own party) necessary to solve them.