Frank AndorkaMay 1, 2023
Stacy

Like Biden or don't, but he will be the Dem nominee. The alternative is anything the GOP puts out there, likely Trump.

We are a two-party system right now. That's just how it is. Your choice will be Biden v. Trump or someone as bad or worst than him. So, your choice will be Biden or full-on fascism with the possibility of a GOP president actually pulling off a coup next time.

Don't like Biden? Fine. But don't pretend both candidates are equally bad. That's how we got Trump in the first place.

May 1, 2023 at 5:22pmWeb
Show threadDoctor HistorianessMay 1, 2023
@dancinyogi AMEN.
Show threadLeeFromVT 🌎🌌🐈♂️♏🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦May 1, 2023

@dancinyogi

The GOP will surly (they always do) fund a 3rd party candidate (dark money = bad) to siphon votes from democrat nominee so they can try to win by splitting the majority democrat/progressive/independent votes

Show threadGJ Groothedde 🇪🇺May 1, 2023
@dancinyogi In fact, this is often how the US ends op with buttholes in the White House. I'm old enough to remember Humphrey vs. Nixon. 🙄
Show threadNorman WilsonMay 2, 2023
@Eetschrijver @dancinyogi As am I. Not old enough to vote back then, but parents were McCarthy supporters who voted Humphrey in the general.
Show threadShoq 🌿May 1, 2023
@dancinyogi Well, said. Important to remember that almost all modern tropes that advance the lazy and trite canard that "both parties at the same" over the last decade and a half were advanced and heavily promoted by @TuckerCarlson's former co-host, Glenn Fucking Greenwald.
Show threadAndy WaschickMay 1, 2023

@dancinyogi The pragmatism of this is undeniable. It does not stop me from resenting this is the only choice we are afforded.

I can at least say I have helped make my city government progressive. This is as much political empowerment as most of us will experience.

Show threadmpoletiekMay 1, 2023
@dancinyogi the alternative is not rigging primaries for a coronation and allowing someone better than both candidates a shot at debating Biden.
Show threadKevin LeecasterMay 2, 2023
@mpoletiek @dancinyogi
Are there seriously still people that fall for Putin's lies about the primary being rigged?
Show threadmpoletiekMay 2, 2023
@GreenFire @dancinyogi I'll admit, the show isn't over yet.
Show threadtoxtethogradyMay 1, 2023
@dancinyogi Right now, Biden is the odds-on favorite, based on the limited polling I've seen. I suspect the polls right now don't actively incorporate the impacts Gen Z will have on the 2024 vote. Biden has done an impressive job getting things to happen, given the active attempts by Joe Manchin to put sticks in the spokes. He may yet go down in history as the man who defeated the Russian empire without lifting a finger...
Show threadDoctor of ElectricityMay 1, 2023
@dancinyogi So well said! Third party=Trump. Not voting=Trump. People need to understand what their choices mean. We don’t actually get to vote our conscience. We vote for the best candidate no matter how imperfect. Realism!
Show threadbouriquetMay 1, 2023
@dancinyogi Biden or not, the Democratic Party needs to start finding and grooming a future successor. Sure it might be VP Harris, it might be someone else. 4 years, 8 years etc. But we need more than one person in the line of succession. Choice is good. No choice is stagnation, status quo.
We need more.
We demand more.
For the future.
Show threadmpmaddogMay 1, 2023
@dancinyogi Yup hence my move to the CENTER .. the alternative is not acceptable.. aka TRUMP and the GOP GANG.. reality check people.. fyi look at CONGRESS total mess with GOP in POWER..done NOTHING.
Show threadRaineer  🦆May 1, 2023

@dancinyogi 100% this. I would *love* to vote for alternate parties to mainstream democrats, but it is not the reality in the US. You have to play within the rules of the two-party system.

Proof will be seen on the republican side. If the RNC dares to pick anyone but Trump, then he will run as a third party. His ego forbids him from doing anything else. If this scenario happens, Biden will win in a landslide.

Depressingly, if we ever want to exit this two-party hellscape, "voting for the option" by supporting a third party candidate is the worst way to do it. That change will likely require a revolution, at least the way the US is structured today.

Show threadArgot_RobbieMay 2, 2023

@dancinyogi I have never liked a Democratic nominee I have voted for since I first voted in 1984.

I have no idea where this notion that our candidate must be potential marriage material came from.

I think Bernie Sanders is a disgusting, evil man. If he were the nominee, you would not hear me whining about how I "deserve a candidate I love." I would vote for him happily.

Show threadJiSeMay 2, 2023
@dancinyogi There is also a high chance that someone will be ran (looking at certain democrats especially) as "Centrists / Not partisan" candidate.. Voting for them is as good as voting for Trumpians.
Show threadWord of Mouth May 2, 2023

@dancinyogi I voted for Biden in the primaries because I thought he was the best candidate for the whole job not just part of it... "Leader of the Free World".

Joe has TEFLON, and that's rare. He's also evolved, and that shows he has compassion. He faces reality with courage and sobriety.

I love him, but let's see what the primaries bring... Someone whose evolution is uh... further along... would be GREAT, thanks.

Show threadsilverhorsemanMay 2, 2023
@dancinyogi
Absolutely.
But some day:
Ranked Choice Voting!
Show threadMatthew NadlerMay 2, 2023

@dancinyogi

" don't compare me to the Almighty, compare me to the alternative. " -Joe Biden

Show threadKris SamselMay 2, 2023
@dancinyogi Primary will decide. Biden has competition.
Show threadIts GregoryMay 2, 2023
@dancinyogi
I beg to differ with my humble opinion... we got Trump because of unqualified Hillary and a manipulating DNC
I didn't vote for the maniac Trump, but laying down against one's values isn't the right answer. It's not consensual Try harder !
Show threadVoronMay 2, 2023
@dancinyogi Actually how we got Trump in the first place was the abandonment of liberal economic policies starting with the Clinton administration. Which also saw a change in the funding structure of the Dem party, which in turn led to the abandonment of rural districts & union across the country. This got worse when there was no challenge to the GOP project red map, which targeted rural districts.
Then the Dems chose a candidate with no economic differences to the gop 🤷‍♂️
Show threadTracy DuffyMay 2, 2023
@dancinyogi at least Biden is not a fascist!
Show threadMegahertzMay 3, 2023
@dancinyogi My take is that no one should adorn any politician. Ever. Especially not to the point that they ignore the overall impact of that persons actions on society. You pick the candidate that sucks less for the country.
Show threadCheRosachMay 8, 2023
@dancinyogi
Replace Biden with Starmer, Democrats with Labour, Trump with Sunak and GOP with Tories and this applies to UK