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Mamdani updates Reagan's "nine most terrifying words" with nine more terrifying words: "I worked all day and can't feed my family" (i.imgur.com)

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[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

All you have to do to defeat that is to fucking vote.

And in places where the party's fuckery succeeds, you'll pretend that the primaries are fair because you like the results.

Yeah, there was talk about them rigging the 2016 primary for Clinton with the superdelegates if Bernie was ahead, but it never reached that point because Clinton secured the nomination before the convention.

The party successfully argued in court that it could decide the nominee in a smoke filled room without the input of the voters if it wanted. Then it did just that in 2024. And you pretend it was fair because a genocide candidate was nominated.

[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The establishment Dems didn't support Mandami, but he still won in the primaries. You know why? Because people showed up to vote.

[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

How many have lost because the party plays favorites?

Who showed up to vote for harris in the primaries we were cheated out of?

The results of crooked primaries are not reliably indicative of the electorate's will.

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Who said it was fair? But you've got to use every tool at your disposal. Don't make it easy for them.

[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Centrists argue that we should ignore progressives and point to primary losses as a reason.

Primaries centrists run dishonestly for their own benefit.

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

So what are you proposing?

[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Not expecting progressives to regard dishonest primaries as fair, and not using the results of those primaries to inform criteria for what constitutes an "electable" candidate.