@Teri_Kanefield @StephanieJones The DNC machine runs an unpopular incumbent, but the problem is ungrateful, unrealistic, uninformed voters.

Noted.

@WhiteCatTamer @Teri_Kanefield @StephanieJones Because the big donors didn't back anyone else? Before there are primaries, there is the voting of the donors, which determines who is capable of running in the primaries.

https://youtu.be/mw2z9lV3W1g?si=kbXhZiTxotGbgE1A

@WhiteCatTamer @Teri_Kanefield @StephanieJones To win the general election, you need to do really well in primaries.

To do really well in primaries, you need to get excellent early support from big donors.

So while the 99% have ultimate control over who wins an election, the 1% control who we get to choose between.

Apparently, the 1% that support the Dems are pretty stoked with Joe and the status quo. The rest of us, not so much.

But hey, Trump is really awful, and that's good enough, right?

@grumble209 @Teri_Kanefield @StephanieJones Your original comment concerned uninformed and unrealistic voters. OP’s link speaks to that due to the way the process works. Do you disagree that that is not how ballot access, and so winning the Electoral College works?

I’m not asking if you disagree with the result. We can both agree on several points there. But we are here now. We can’t go back to before. So yes, Trump being awful matters.

@WhiteCatTamer @Teri_Kanefield @StephanieJones Stephanie accurately describes the current process, and why, using the current process, despite being in advance of the party convention, it's too late to change candidates. I mean, they've already printed the bumper stickers.

But I hope we can agree that, this time, the current process has produced a shitty result: Biden's candidacy is not uniting his own party, let alone attracting unaligned voters. The only possible uniting factor in this election is that Trump is *really *bad. Worse even than a +19 disapproval margin? I guess we'll find out. The Dems can accomplish anything - even an incumbent losing an election to a convicted felon.

My snark tries to suggest that the current process is bullshit; only serving the monied interests, and that clinging to a shitty process further alienates the DNC from the population as a whole. The Dems tore themselves apart within living memory - they can do it again.

Edit: Fix attribution.

@grumble209 But the solution to that is to cut Republicans out of each and every seat with hedgeclippers, install Democrats, and then split the party into full progressives and conservatives.
6/6

Also it ate one of my posts and I didn’t save it so I am officially on the market for servers with higher character limits because I feel like a douchebag making a lot of notifications and losing half of what I was going to say anyways.

@WhiteCatTamer Can't say I agree that the solution to hyperpartisanship is to only have one party. Especially when the Constitution itself speaks so eloquently in its silence about political parties.

If the goal is to have one chamber representing the rich and one chamber representing the people, then we really need to bump up the size of the House and reapportion accordingly.

Let's #ExpandTheHouse to 1500 and see how that works for decade or two. Because the solution to pollution is dilution.