Biden’s numbers among young voters have slid during his presidency from the high margins that helped him beat Trump. Several former supporters explain why.
No, this is actually a dichotomy. First Past the Post mathematically trends towards a two candidate system as its stable state. This isn’t some psychological bullshit, it’s math. The way our system works you never vote for the thing you like; you vote against the thing you don’t. Doing anything else is literally handing the election to the side you don’t like. It’s called the Spoiler Effect and it happens basically everywhere in the US where FPtP is used.
The place you vote for who you want is in the primaries (or their equivalent in your state), not elections. If you’re not participating in those, you get no say in who gets run and bitching about it does nothing. Hell, even then you barely get any say since, as far as I’m aware, both the DNC and RNC actually select their candidate based on a vote of some inner circle bigwigs, not the actual results of any of the state-by-state pageant shows.
You guys are refusing to hold a primary! You kick us in the face, lie about caring what we say, and then telling us to fall in line.
I have seen this episode before, blah blah blah trump,
Trump never would have fucking won if y’all hadn’t conspired to only run Clinton, but it is all everyone else’s fault.
I’m sick of being fed the same lies over and over.
No, this is actually a dichotomy. …[snip]… The place you vote for who you want is in the primaries (or their equivalent in your state), not elections.
We’re not in the main election. Right now is the Primary Season. Thanks for the super patronizing lesson in civics, though. super Tuesday isn’t until February at the earliest.
with that out of the way … I can’t help but notice you aren’t actually defending Biden as the best possible candidate to defeat trump.
edit: the DNC rules and bylaws. while you’re partially right, you are voting for delegates, who are nominally bound to vote for the candidate who they said they’d vote for. It’s the electoral college but in mini-form. not that the DNC actually follows them (remember what happened to Bernie?)
No, this is actually a dichotomy. First Past the Post mathematically trends towards a two candidate system as its stable state. This isn’t some psychological bullshit, it’s math. The way our system works you never vote for the thing you like; you vote against the thing you don’t. Doing anything else is literally handing the election to the side you don’t like. It’s called the Spoiler Effect and it happens basically everywhere in the US where FPtP is used.
The place you vote for who you want is in the primaries (or their equivalent in your state), not elections. If you’re not participating in those, you get no say in who gets run and bitching about it does nothing. Hell, even then you barely get any say since, as far as I’m aware, both the DNC and RNC actually select their candidate based on a vote of some inner circle bigwigs, not the actual results of any of the state-by-state pageant shows.
You guys are refusing to hold a primary! You kick us in the face, lie about caring what we say, and then telling us to fall in line.
I have seen this episode before, blah blah blah trump,
Trump never would have fucking won if y’all hadn’t conspired to only run Clinton, but it is all everyone else’s fault.
I’m sick of being fed the same lies over and over.
We’re not in the main election. Right now is the Primary Season. Thanks for the super patronizing lesson in civics, though. super Tuesday isn’t until February at the earliest.
with that out of the way … I can’t help but notice you aren’t actually defending Biden as the best possible candidate to defeat trump.
edit: the DNC rules and bylaws. while you’re partially right, you are voting for delegates, who are nominally bound to vote for the candidate who they said they’d vote for. It’s the electoral college but in mini-form. not that the DNC actually follows them (remember what happened to Bernie?)