• masterspace@lemmy.ca
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    5 months ago

    Try me. I’m waiting. No one has named a name.

    My best alternative choice would be Bernie but I don’t think he’d actually beat Trump because he’d lose some centrists, doesn’t seem particularly less old, and hasn’t held presidential office before. What’s your choice?

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      It’s two separate questions, and the second has basically only two answers: it’s either Harris or some sort of open contest voted on by the delegates. Most “replace” voices don’t care which of those options is selected nearly as much as they care that the guy who’s going to lose can’t be the nominee.

      And my personal choice is “I don’t care”. Harris is fine, the governors are fine, Buttigieg is unlikely but fine. I’m not going to pretend the party or Biden’s own delegates is going to choose a progressive. None of them is going to cause a seismic shift in the candidate’s policy except for getting a chance to choose a better message on Israel and any will fulfill the need of ditching the losing incumbent who only made the race worse in his one key public appearance. Their one and only qualification is that unlike Biden, they might not lose. And that’s plenty for me.

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        So basically your answer is you don’t care because you’re pissing your pants scared right now.

        Harris won’t beat him, literally everyone knows that, which is why no one is suggesting her. Your idea of pitting “I dunno whoever the dems elect, they’re probably fine” is quite frankly preposterous on its face. Pick someone and advocate for them, or learn to shut up and not scream chicken little.

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            No I asked for names because tearing down options without presenting new ones is what Russian propagandists do. Not what people who don’t want Trump to win do.

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              Here, watch. Franken, Harris, Buttigieg, Newsom. Whitmer.

              Now do what you intended to do when you asked the question and dismiss.

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                Franken comes off just as old and won’t win over centrist voters, Harris is possibly less charismatic than Clinton, Buttigieg would be a great president and I would support his candidacy all the way, but realistically I don’t know if America would rally behind him by November, Newsom might but he might also be a Mitt Romney, Whitmer I don’t know enough about.

                If you wanna champion Biden to step aside for Franken, go for it, but I quite frankly have an extremely hard time seeing him beat Trump.

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                All of whom have explicitly said they don’t want to run. And they back Joe Biden.

                Gimme a viable candidate here.

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          LOL. Sure bud. Definitely turning my “disingenuous” opinion around with all this dumb internet posturing.