• @mlg
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    101 month ago

    That’s one of my issues though, Harris is less liberal than Obama. It went in the opposite direction.

    I advocated that Biden step down and allow a primary. Instead they ran with the VP because the DNC is not interested in actually bringing a more liberal or leftist candidate.

    Meanwhile Trump has made Bush look good in comparison, so even if he stops running, an equal or worse candidate will simply take his place, and then we’ll be faced with a similar problem.

    It would take 20 years to make a grassroots movement work, but if we never start it’s never gonna happen.

    • Subverb
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      71 month ago

      I’m 60. I would argue that 20 years is not a long time. Keep pushing.

    • @michaelmrose
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      61 month ago

      Presumably because the US electorate isn’t actually leftist or progressive in general and losing swing states wouldn’t be balanced by extra votes in safe blue states.