• rayyyy@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    When people start supporting potential candidates from the ground up there will be quality candidates at the top. Until then we get what we get.

    • givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Maybe if it was a fair fight…

      Did you forget about when the DNC got taken to court for bias in the primary and their legal defense was:

      We’re a private organization that can do what it wants, we don’t even have to hold a primary or run who wins. And that’s 100% legal.

      They won the court case, because it’s true

      Our system is fucked, and I have trouble believing people who pretend it’s not.

      Instead of buying twitter, musk could have donated that money to the DNC over a couple of years and gotten his cronies into leadership positions because all the DNC cares about is donations.

      It would be a completely legal take over of one of the only two political parties in America, and there’s still nothing from stopping it

      Stop pretending everything is fine until it burns down. Start installing a sprinkler system so we can stop it from burning down .

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      1 year ago

      You sweet summer child. Ground-up grassroots candidates (in the US, at least) are usually crushed before you even know their names. Always have been. We’d have to have a completely different system for them to even be in the running. It’s designed that way.