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I hate how stupid my fucking country is.
Yeah it’s going to be Newsom vs Vance and the left will scream that it should have been Bernie and that they’ll be voting for Jill Stein.
Almost like this has happened before but the Dems will intentionally not learn from their previous mistakes
According to the left anything the democrats will do is a mistake.
I like how the left sidesteps that whole issue by not running anyone.
Leftists have been very clear about why the Democrats are failing their voters. A party that supports Capitalism can not support workers, simple as.
You can start listening to them and stop trying to bully them into submission any time you feel like engaging in reality.
Honestly this is a good reason why the left is and will always be mostly ineffectual as a political movement.
When you’re not fighting yourselves over who’s the most ideologically pure you’re spouting shit like this.
People would listen if they actually showed up. If leftists are so numerous then it shouldn’t be a problem to get many candidates elected. See mamdani. But in general they do not.
So either that many leftists don’t exist or their policies aren’t actually that popular OR theyre too lazy or ideological to go vote.
Either way, it ensures “establishment” candidates go on to the general election.
The only time your voice matters is in the voting booth. Far too many eschew that.
No, it’s going to be Newsom against Donald Trump Jr. , In an epic battle of Kimberly Guilfoyle’s exes…
(Yes, she was married to Newsom, and then engaged to Junior for years before they split up)
Do you think that’s news?
No. He should do what he can to push out and fight against this current regime, but nobody likes him or wants him as a president. Nobody.
You’ve got to remember that you and I are not the average Democratic primary voter. Clearly there are plenty of Democrats who think this is a good idea.
NOBODY.
…yeah I know just let me have something
I wish I could man but we’re in a Steelers Wheel situation where there are .ml clowns to the left of us and Nazis to the right and here we are stuck in the middle of neoliberals.
You should read the article. In the pole referenced Newsom is in 6th place. He got a higher than expected percentage of the poling which the author has blown up here with their deceptive clickbaity headline. Possibly in an effort to make people think that Newsom is the favorite.
Not that I’d be really happy to vote for the actual favorite in the pole which is Kamala Harris. Though I would absolutely vote for her over Newsom any day of the week.
Why not? I don’t know much about him except that he isn’t 300 years old like the rest of the Democrats.
He seems to be doing a good job in California?
He’s just another slimy corporatist owned by the ultra wealthy, but throws a bone to the social issues of Democrats. Pretty much the same strategy that modern Democrats have had for the past 40+ years. I will absolutely vote for him in the general or support him in pushing against Trump/Repulicans, but he’s one of my least favorite Democrats now.
That’s a pretty good point
I’m appreciating Newsom as a foil to Trump, and want him to continue that, but I really wouldn’t want him to be the Democratic nominee. I’d much rather have a Mamdani-esque nominee
The DNC has found their new milquetoast Neoliberal!
Yayyyy
This fuckin guy has been moving right for the last several years. This is the same strategy that lost the Democrats the last election, and it will lose them the next one.
I don’t think so. A white centrist man beat Trump in 2020. That’s all the qualification it takes apparently which is handy because that’s all Newsom has to offer but I can see him coming out on top.
At some point you people are going to have to accept the fact that there were extenuating circumstances in 2020. And without those Trump would have been a consecutive two-term president.
If the Democrats shove Newsom down our throats we’ll have another GOP president following Trump.
Biden won in 2020 on a “not Trump” platform. He then proceeded to do fuck-all for working people, and fuck-all to prevent another Trump term. Dems figured they could skate by with the same type of campaign again, and they were wrong.
He’s nothing if not a political opportunist. Really hoping a better candidate starts gaining traction though.
no matter what i will not vote for him
The alternative is the Republican. Nobody else will win.
that’s for the democrats to decide. but i will not vote for him full stop. they have time to change if they wish. but voting for him is a non starter
You aren’t required to vote for him in the primary, but failing to vote for the Democrat in the general is how we got Trump again.
If you don’t want another shitshow of a Republican president, you have to vote for the Democrat.
if my choice is between him and any republican, then bring on the end of democracy. enough with the farce. i will no longer vote to further gild this age.
we have had this discussion before… it was extensive.
Bears repeating. Your methodology is a race to the bottom, encouraging the worst candidate gets elected every time.
Nothing changes if you sit things out except it all gets worse.
“One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.” - Plato
While I know this is nothing more than name recognition at this point, still just ugh…
🤮
We really are in the idiocracy timeline.
Politicians are picked on their staffer’s ai meme game
It’s far worse than Idiocracy.
Ughhhhhh
Because every candidate surging in polls 3 years ahead of the election have ever made it close to winning.
It is twenty-fucking-twenty-five. Why on earth is this a thing that even exists?
I don’t want to lose him, but Gov Ned Lamont from CT is a pretty good governor. Maybe a little bit more towards the center than some would like but he’s done a good job with jobs, taxes and covid
Republicans are rigging elections because they know that if they lose power, they’re going to hang for their crimes.
Ew. Patrick Bateman much?
