I’ll start off by pointing out that last 3 primaries have been some kind of funny business.
- 2016: Bernie snuffed by Hillary with shady tactics that lead to the D losing to Trump (lol).
- 2020: Everyone drops like flies to support Biden (sus, but allegedly because Trump and Covid were bad).
- 2024: Biden waits until the last second to announce dropping, there seems to be momentum to skip the Primary and go with Kamala Harris.
Assuming everything I’ve stated is accurate-enough, do you think the average person is likely to feel like this isn’t Democracy? Or will this be business as usual for the US? Will the absence of censorship on tiktok be likely change anything?
For this reason, until there is a primary that Kamala wins, I want every mention of Kamala Harris to be prefixed with a formal title like Kamala Harris, the appointed, the unelected, in a similar vein as Mother of Dragons, Daenerys Targaryen.
no lol things will have to get a lot worse to precipitate any kind of mass class consciousness triggering in the US i think
This clusterfuck + a loss to Trump would at least cause a lot of discourse. The question would be if that produces any change in how the party’s run (big changes are unlikely, but smaller ones are possible).