• El Barto
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    3 months ago

    Not a single person voting Democrat does so because they thought Biden was a great candidate.

    This is where you lost me. As if boomer Democrats are not a thing. But let’s keep on reading…

    It appears nobody has learned anything from Hillary’s loss in 2016.

    Lost me again. I don’t know why people keep forgetting about 2020.

    • @[email protected]
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      33 months ago

      It’s unlikely that they forgot about boomer Democrats. Many of us have parents or grandparents who qualify. I can’t think of a single person who told me how great of a candidate Biden was. I don’t remember anyone who was extremely excited by the policies he wanted to enact. Of course I can only talk about people that I met, my friends and family and community.

      • @cogman
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        63 months ago

        Were it not for Israel, I’d be telling you about how great Biden has been domestically (except the boarder). His administration has by and large been very progressive with the policies it’s enacted. Biden’s abhorrent sucking up to Israel during an active genocide is the huge dark spot on his presidency.

        It is a bit dumb that “he’s too old” is what got him out.

        • El Barto
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          -13 months ago

          Hm, no. Neither of those arguments got him out.

          “I’ll tax the billionaires” got him out.

          Unless he did some 4D chess with the whole bowing out after the RNC.

          • @cogman
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            43 months ago

            Nah, he turned deeply unpopular right after the debate with trump. He was hemorrhaging in the polls. His backers abandoned him because they feared trump winning. Several polls about biden dropping out had something like 75% of democrats wanting him to drop.

            Kamala has ran to the left of biden on a number of issues. If this were a “billionares fear taxes” situation she wouldn’t have been the replacement. There are some rumors that establishment dems didn’t want Kamala to be the pick because of her policies.

      • El Barto
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        13 months ago

        You’re correct in your last sentence. In many communities, everyone thought that everyone was voting for Hillary Clinton in 2016.

    • @Linkerbaan
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      -103 months ago

      Biden won marginally because he was marginally better than Hillary and was the Obama guy.

      Bernie would have won by a landslide.

            • El Barto
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              23 months ago

              Sorry, man. Honestly, I commented because I thought I was replying to the troll. I deleted my comment because that’s not an argument I want to pursue anyway.

        • @[email protected]
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          03 months ago

          It’s not wrong. Free healthcare is a hell of a selling point.

          Having healthcare (or saving $5,000 if you’re lucky enough already be paying for health insurance), every year would have gotten every single millennial and gen-z to the polls.

          Dems would have a 1-party state if they threw in housing too.

      • El Barto
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        43 months ago

        Don’t move the goalpost. Are you an AI bot?