• @[email protected]
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    -101 year ago

    We do legitimately have a gerontocracy problem and this doesn’t help, but at the same time as long as she’s capable of doing the job I can’t in good conscience object either. The beauty of our system of government is anyone can run. You don’t like her, run against her or STFU and quit screaming at the clouds.

    • @givesomefucks
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      101 year ago

      The beauty of our system of government is anyone can run. You don’t like her, run against her or STFU and quit screaming at the clouds.

      You act like primaries are fair…

      Even the DNC stopped doing that years ago, why do you still believe it?

      The Court continued, “For their part, the DNC and Wasserman Schultz have characterized the DNC charter’s promise of ‘impartiality and evenhandedness’ as a mere political promise—political rhetoric that is not enforceable in federal courts. The Court does not accept this trivialization of the DNC’s governing principles. While it may be true in the abstract that the DNC has the right to have its delegates ‘go into back rooms like they used to and smoke cigars and pick the candidate that way,’ the DNC, through its charter, has committed itself to a higher principle.”

      https://observer.com/2017/08/court-admits-dnc-and-debbie-wasserman-schulz-rigged-primaries-against-sanders/

      • Deceptichum
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        41 year ago

        No, no. You see buttery emails and stuff, they never deliberately worked against Bernie to ensure Clinton won. Totally it was all the people voting.

      • ares35
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        21 year ago

        if the dnc didn’t like fucking up primaries, bernie’s vp would be the front-runner in 2024. oh, and the country would be in a lot better shape than it is now, too.

        i hope california can come up with a candidate that can challenge pelosi in the primaries.

      • @NounsAndWords
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        -21 year ago

        The Court continued, “For their part, the DNC and Wasserman Schultz have characterized the DNC charter’s promise of ‘impartiality and evenhandedness’ as a mere political promise—political rhetoric that is not enforceable in federal courts. The Court does not accept this trivialization of the DNC’s governing principles. While it may be true in the abstract that the DNC has the right to have its delegates ‘go into back rooms like they used to and smoke cigars and pick the candidate that way,’ the DNC, through its charter, has committed itself to a higher principle.”

        I’m not saying the DNC isn’t biased. But it looks like that was a legal arguments made by lawyers. Generally, they make every argument they can fit into their brief.

        • @givesomefucks
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          41 year ago

          It was only their lawyers and the person running it at the time that said it, that doesn’t count!

        • @[email protected]
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          21 year ago

          Shahid Buttar was a very good candidate running against Pelosi. DNC wasn’t happy and the idiot Dem voters from the District just fell in line behind the incumbent as both party’s voters tend to do. It’s just a fucked up, dysfunctional system we have going here.

          • @[email protected]
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            01 year ago

            Lookee there. The candidate didn’t get the support or votes and lost. Therefore it’s a dysfunctional system. If you added “and it must be destroyed” you could join the Republican party. Candidates lose. It happen every election.

            • @[email protected]
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              21 year ago

              It’s a dysfunctional system because of the way it is. If you can’t see it…well, I don’t know what to tell you. I would love to get a pair of those rose-tinted ignorance-is-bliss glasses.

    • @BertramDitore
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      71 year ago

      True, anyone can technically run. But in practice, a fresh-faced new candidate going up against a well-funded incumbent will very very rarely win. The few times it has happened the incumbent either didn’t take the threat seriously (AOC), or the incumbent was involved in a big scandal.

      For your well-intentioned version of America to exist in reality, we’d need to do a few things: overturn Citizens United, require that all elections be fully publicly funded, ban private political donations, and stop letting elected officials draw their own maps. Until then, the gerontocracy will go on.

      • @[email protected]
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        -31 year ago

        You give me a dozen reasons why can’t win. Maybe your the wrong person for the job.

        Someday I’ll tell you the story of 7 of 11 and Obama.

        • @BertramDitore
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          31 year ago

          Oh I’m definitely the wrong person for the job. And I’m not running, see above.

    • @ABCDE
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      31 year ago

      Not sure about you but I don’t have the time or money to run.

      • @[email protected]
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        -11 year ago

        But you do live in the district? Excellent. Now get some support and raise some money. Make sure to talk to the party of choice. Get some petitions signed. You have to work to get on a ballot.