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We'll have a long memory as things get worse for working class Americans, minorities and women
(lemmy.world)
this post was submitted on 12 Oct 2024
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Fuck right off with that "Dems are just as much at fault".
It's the system that sucks, and it's the Republicans that exploited the system.
It's a damned if you do, damned if you don't problem. Dems can't win by playing the game by the rules, but if they stoop to the Republicans level, then they are just as fascist.
You gotta see the conundrum, right? Dems take the high road and they lose, dems take the low road and they're fascist, too.
The only option is to pull out as many stops as possible, while working within the rules to either get moderate conservatives (the ones that hate Trump, at least) to switch to Harris. Which means that the big-tent-party gets bigger by expanding to the right.
So they do stuff like observe that Trump's whole schtick is "I'm not the incumbent". That didn't work well for him in 2020. Getting Biden to step down and throw the entire GOP campaign off kilter was, IMO, brilliant. Yeah, it sucks that there was no real primary...but there's also the issue of optics when primarying an incumbent president.
And I don't think the pageantry of a primary would've accomplished anything. It would've shattered the party even more with infighting while Trump and the GOP leaned back with their popcorn and pulling out sound bites to twist on Fox and OAN to rattle their own base even more. And in the end the Dems would've just chosen who they wanted to and half the parties voters will be just as, if not more, pissed, and end up boycotting the election as a result.
And then they get to really punch Trump where it hurts, by saying things like how he's now the oldest person to ever run for president of the US. You just know that's gotta burn.
Honestly, Harris/Walz is probably the best they could've offered up, not because they are great politicians (although they are), but because this is a battle of appearances and personality, and the two of them have it in spades.