Hillary won the popular vote. While America does have a sexism problem, I don't think being a woman is why they lost. They lost because they were terrible candidates who were completely out of touch with what Americans want.
piefood
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Obama was one of our most popular presidents in my lifetime. Hillary won the popular vote.
Yes, American clearly has racism and sexism, but I don't think those have been the problem. The problem is running terrible candidates that ignore what Americans are looking for.
And how has running the DNC picks been working out?
If the Democrats aren't going to give the people what they want, it's time to give a 3rd party a shot.
No, the pain, suffering loss of rights and death were because the DNC decided that continuing a genocide was more important than winning an election against one of the least popular presidents we've ever had.
Maybe next time they should pick a candidate that the people actually want.
It's working out about as well as we expected it would. The Democrats were loudly told that running a terrible candidate, who supported genocide was a bad idea. They didn't listen, and here we are.
I feel like getting made at the people who couldn't stomach voting for a genocidist is the wrong strategy. Getting mad at the people who ran on a platform of genocide seems like a better strategy.
It's still amazing to me that people blame the voters who couldn't stomach voting for genocide, rather than getting mad at the people in charge who chose genocide over winning
Hillary won the popular vote. While yes, America does have a sexism problem, I don't think being a woman is that big of a problem for the candidates.
Being a terrible candidate who is insanely out of touch with Americans is the problem. They just need to run women who are willing to fight for what Americans want.
I've seen them backtrack on enough things to pretty openly not believe them. They could do all kinds of finance reform around politics but keep choosing not to. They keep taking in tons of money, and fighting against the politicians that say they want to overturn CU.
If you really don't think the DNC expands ballot access and promotes fair districting, then clearly you haven't been watching anything going on around you.
I watch it all the time. I saw them sue to keep 3rd parties off the ballot. I saw them sabatoge Bernie's campaign. I saw them push their own progressive party members out. I saw them push two terrible candidates for the last presidental election that their base was loudly saying they didn't want.
So no, I don't think they care about open elections
Why? People are already having sex with devices (vibrators, masturbators, real-dolls). I don't see why this is all that different
Why would I want to encourage the Democrats shitty behaviour? Voting for more of them tells them "yes, I want you to keep backing down on everything you promsed", which I don't want.
Even if you don't feel represented on a specific issue, the DNC are the party to reverse citizens united, tax the rich, and promote fair and open elections.
No, those are the things they talk about doing, but as soon as they have the power, suddenly they are too busy focusing on perpetuating wars, bailing out their rich friends, and fighting against fair elections to get any of those things done
Yeah, I understand their frustration. I think many of them are blinded by anger. And I think they should be angry, but I think they are angry at the wrong people. Instead of being angry at people who vote against things like genocide, they should be angry at their political leaders for running in support of unpopular things like genocide.
There was time for a primary, but the DNC wanted to be sure and clamp down on any possible dissent. They wanted to make it clear that they get to pick the candidates, and the voters have to deal with it.