Hey, it was her TURN

Or persecuted Nixon, or Reagan, or Bush Sr, or didn't give up when gore "lost" to bush jr

Or if harris had literally a single electoral group she didnt actively spray shit on

Or if clinton hadnt helped trump win

Or...

Probably better than what we have now in many ways but don't get your hopes too high from people who belong to the current establishment. In europe plenty of "good" politicians from alternative parties won elections and guess what? Once in power they didn't do shit of what they promised and ended up licking the boot or corporations like anyone else.

I got this shit from him after Oct. 7 so don't be so sure

He has moved away from being this outright shit since then, I will concede.

Very fun idea, I'd like that. Counterpoint: how do we accomplish that?

Definitely Russia.

Vast amounts of money from the network of pedophile billionaires means you can run hundred guys named Joe Hamburger on the platform of "Protect Adorable Babies" and "Money for People Who Deserve It", then roll them up into the political caucus that shows bipartisan support for military cannibalism.

That's what keeps guys like Henry Cuellar and Gavin Newsom firmly rooted in the party, even as they function no differently than "moderate" Republicans in the same role.

In the 80's liberals got control of our progressive party, the DNC. Back then it was possible to pull voters from the right by appealing to wealth and so Clintons won by doing it.

But every election our candidates are supposed to be elected by popular vote within each party. Recently they just kind of stopped though because it turns out that was apparently just a tradition and not like an enforceable law or anything. And the Clintons wanted to have the White House again.

The vast majority of people don't vote in primaries for some reason so the demographics are different from the general, but also the DNC has plenty of tricks at its disposal to get the results they want. Now part of the reason those tricks work is that American leftist politicians tend to be pussies who are unwilling to take shots at liberals, but yeah the whole process is captured by DNC liberals.

As an American, I can assure they don't work. It's a fucking party. Guess why that wasn't a misnomer and what they mean by "Jerry Rigged" and "Glass" house.

Or did you think Propane was just a coincidence in naming?

Why are the liberals who choose the candidate and not the leftists?

Because the liberals are the entrenched power in the party and they set the primary rules in their favor. And ignore them as convenient. Even successfully argued in court that they are under no obligation to follow their own stated rules. And sometimes they don't even hold primaries.

We got layers of elections. The states administer them so you have a different system for each state. Primaries are different in every state, too. Then you have Federal elections that are still run by the individual states, just for federal offices, but then the President is elected through an entirely different system altogether that the states also individually have to administer.

The US doesn’t have leftists.

Because most people don't know the difference. it's mostly just name recognition so you have to be known and at least somewhat popular.

Well, if you get them to even tell you what a "liberal" is, you are lucky.

Their primaries are a real election they have inside each party to pick the candidates. If you have only 2 parties, it's a hard requirement. The people enlisted to each party vote on them (it seems that if you only have 2 real parties and primaries are your real elections, lots of people enlist in a party).

Primaries are generally much more extreme, because everyone voting is part of the party. So the candidates will be closely toeing the party line to pick up the passionate voters.

To be clear, the individual parties aren’t actual government-funded organizations. They’re private entities, who choose to hold primaries and then put the party’s support behind whoever wins. This is an important distinction because this means the individual primaries can be run however the party wants, even if that means not having a primary and simply running a sitting president (like what happened to Biden, then later Kamala after Biden dropped out). And registering to vote with a party is typically exclusive, meaning you can only vote in one pre-chosen primary election per cycle. Like if I were to register as a republican to vote in the republican primary, the democrat party wouldn’t allow me to cast a vote in their primary.

Then whoever wins the primaries goes on to the general election. While winning the primary is only a soft requirement for the general election, (anyone can run as an independent candidate), the US’ first-past-the-post voting system means it’s virtually impossible to win the general election without the support of one of the two big parties. And if you want to get that support, you need to win the primary. Independent candidates are generally thought of as wasted votes, meme votes, protest votes, etc…

Notably, in the general election, democrats’ campaigns tend to take a strategy of “move farther right to grab the center/center-right swing voters.” Since any registered voter can vote in the general, swing voters often determine who wins and loses the general. Which means candidates tend to disproportionately focus on appeasing those swing voters. And this tends to piss off the democrats/leftists/etc who prefer the farther left policies. Especially when those same candidates have spent the past month parroting the official democratic party platform to win the primary, then suddenly about-face and cozy up to the centrists in the general.

So even if leftists were able to get enough votes for a far-left candidate in the primaries, (they can’t, because America has no notable far-left/leftist voting blocks), that same candidate would then immediately shift to the center to grab the swing votes in the general.

You were up for something other than he meant when he said he'd piss on you if took his shoestringing tax blah blah blah.

He really was a RR, wasn't he? Oh, what? Did you say you gotta shit, now? Hang on. I want my Kim Chi to enjoy this scene.

Corn is overrated. Just because I am in THAT state right now doesn't mean I was born sucking candy from a tall hatted stalker.

The post is probably referring to our previous elections he ran in.

But the dude's been testing the waters to break that amendment. He's kind of in this weird state of transgression where when he does pull shit nobody takes him to task because they either directly benefit from it or they benefit from publicly opposing him but failing to to hold him accountable.

Do Republicans?