Yes, yes, the Dems are inadequate.
But they’re not aggressively and maliciously monstrous.
And no, a third party has no chance of winning at this time and place.
And *monstrous* is the price of trying.
This isn’t complex, FFS.
@McPatrick @StillIRise1963 The Democrats don't have to be inadequate. There is a primary. There *could* be a candidate beside Biden in that primary. Maybe someone younger and more progressive.
Instead of conceding the future, we could perhaps work to make it better.
@antares @StillIRise1963
In a very theoretical sense, yes.
In a realistic one, rooted in history, no.
(And I say this as someone who wasn’t a Biden supporter until he won.)
A real primary—where the sitting President’s position is contested from within the party—has almost *always* resulted in a loss to the other party. Regardless of which party.
A natural feature of how electoral politics and human psychology works.
So (bitterly) no.
Raise bell, make demands, push him in other ways, yes.
@McPatrick @StillIRise1963 Given my recent track record with elected officials, I fully expect Biden to get shingles in early October and lose because he is too ill to campaign.
