• Jediwan@lemy.lol
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      In a democracy, you get two choices

      Why do so many people act like primaries don’t exist. Everyone online complains about Joe Biden but then 96% of south Carolina votes for him? Slactivism at it’s finest.

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        Another thing that annoys me is how people just treat the primary process with such respect with regard to the 2 parties. This year the GOP primary is the only (potentially) competitive one, so what’s stopping everyone from voting in the GOP primary so there can be a more acceptable opponent to Biden? I know it feels icky to register as a Republican but I’m just kinda shocked how no one ever takes this opportunity with such an exploitable system that consistently gets us disastrous results. Instead we complain about the 2 party system all the time, but then abide by it when the two parties ask us to.

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        Why do so many people act like primaries don’t exist.

        Because this year they didn’t. 95% of votes haven’t been cast yet and everyone except the front-runners have dropped out already.

        The only way we don’t get a Biden v Trump rematch in 2024 is if a convention is outright hijacked or one/both of them drop dead of Old People Itis.

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          Nobody else is going to fix what you dont like about the primaries for you, bro. Throwing your hands up and playing the victim because the odds are 99.99% against you only changes those odds to 100%.