If the Democrats were the minority party to the green party then yes, this is still sound. This is how politics works in FPTP election systems. You may not like it, but it’s not unreasonable. If the purpose of the green party is to get its policies enacted then the best way for that is pushing and endorsing when concessions are made.

Heck, for a lot of its positions the best thing the green party could do is run for local and state level positions. But they don’t do that, they only run for presidential positions. They waste a ton of time and money getting nothing done. You only hear about the green party once every 4 years which is why they are unserious.

And I’m not even saying they can’t keep doing their dumb campaigns. However, they work directly against their goals by running in contested states. The green party pulls votes from Democrats which are the most in line party with the green party goals. By running in contested states they help Republicans get elected. Of the green party was more than just a joke or a rat fuck, they’d mainly be running in states like Idaho or California.

Yes, but then being unwilling to take any concession is not. The green party could, for example, pull itself off of ballots in key states or elections when the Democrats agree to their policies.

Running a doomed to fail candidate that only weakens the likelihood of the most left candidates and pulling progressives out of the Democrat party is a bad move.

Say what your will about RFK, he’s getting political power from Trump by dropping (if Trump wins). What will the green party get? Nothing.

Dropping and endorsing after concessions is the real way for a minority party to weld power. Running no matter what is just delusion that works counter to any goal you might have.

What’s crazy is they aren’t saying that Trump is too extreme, they are complaining that he isn’t extreme enough.

If Trump gets in, we set back the pro-life cause and free markets by a generation at least

They are mad that he’s not campaigning on a total abortion ban and complete federal government shutdown.

Corporate media likes elections to be close and exciting because that draws ratings. Hence the reason they put on kid gloves for the idiot fascist.

She needs to fire the Biden campaign managers. People liked her because she’s not Biden. So why is she letting the morons that ran his campaign in the ground run her campaign the same way?

She does not need to pivot right, this is idiotic.

Opinions on what? I can’t think of a single cabinet position i’d want a conservative running. Their motto of decreasing government spending and increasing privatization of the government is antithetical to good government.

Like even something like the DoJ is a mess because I don’t want a tough on crime Republican in there prosecuting protestors for resisting arrest.

I really hate Harris’s hard pivot to try and be centrist. I highly doubt there’s a large contingency of Republicans that are willing to vote for a Democrat. There are a bunch of progressive, though, that I think she can lose by trying to define herself as a better Republican.

She needs to get rid of the delusional idiots that ran the Biden campaign into the ground.

I don’t have this much faith. What lost gore the election is the fact that it was a terribly close election that the supreme court could swing one way or another (and they swung it for bush). If this is a close election for trump and there’s 1 or 2 cases that would make him win, I definitely see the supreme court swinging in his favor. This is quite obvious if you look at the recent case that granted him full immunity. The SC is more than willing to bend of over backwards if it furthers rightwing ideals.

As for what the house/senate can do to swing the case, that loophole was mostly closed after the 2020 election. There’s not the same room that trump was trying to exploit to steal an election from congress. I worry a lot more about election laws in swing states stealing the election for Trump. There were more than a few laws passed in republican controlled swing states that gave republicans more discretion in figuring out “legitimate” votes.

Shapiro is a HUGE Zionist and has had problems in his office with sexual harassment (not by him, but his aides). With some saying he helped to cover it up.

He may play well in Pennsylvania, he does not play well in many states like Michigan and would not play well with the youth vote. The only real reason to pick Shapiro is for AIPAC money.

Agreed. Fuck sources like CNN telling her to drop cabinet heads like Lina Khan, just because daddy business doesn’t want to pay taxes.

It’s strictly a donor thing as even in super conservative idaho, I’ve never heard negative things about the more progressive positions. It’s only business owners that hate it.

The story is that he proudly shared this story. He thinks telling his young child to shut the hell up because Trump is more important paints him in a good light.

This wasn’t a hidden camera capturing a bad moment, this was Vance bragging.

It’s a story because he’s a weirdo monster that cares more about licking Trump’s boots than loving his kids. Even if that’s not the case, he told that story precisely to communicate how much he loves a man he previously described as a modern Hitler.

The real question at this point is who shows up to the poll booth. I’m not sure how much trump using the n word would depress his turnout or enthuse kamala turnout.

I disagree. Good people love bomb. People that love bomb don’t always do it for nefarious (from their perspective) reasons.

I’m a former mormon, and I can tell you that love bombing (from a cultists perspective) is never from ill intent. They are just trying to share “the truth” and they believe that if you adopt “the truth” everything about your life will be made better.

If someone is love bombing you for an organization, first thing to do is investigate that organization. Read the stuff they don’t want you to read. Particularly, don’t pull that information from their media/materials. You should seek out the opinions of ex-members of the organization to get a real feel for what it’s all about.

For example, imagine if the rotary club was trying to recruit you. What do you think an exrotarian would say? Well, you can google it. And, surprise, it’s mostly “Yeah, I moved and just sort of lost interest”.

Now go visit /r/exmormon and see the miles of shit they have to say about previous membership.

That, to me, is the acid test. Are exmembers that way because it was just sort of a “meh” event. Or did they get there because the organization was abusive?

I tend to agree, but I will say if Dems truly want the will of the people, then they should switch all the primaries over to RCV. The current FPTP system gives incumbents huge advantages while penalizing reform candidates with similar politics.

Send delegates proportionally allocated to the top 2 or 3 and run the convention the same way.

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.

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.

You are saying I shouldn’t be terrified of biden’s prospects because, unlike Hillary, he’s trailing in pretty much all polls? Heck, unlike 2020 he’s trailing?

Mr. Basically anyone, currently polling ahead of Biden.

https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/first-read/biden-trump-both-underperform-generic-opponents-poll-finds-rcna126098

Basically anybody. However, at this point I’m guessing it’ll be Kamala.

bad in a clear way and define a simple test.

The reason for this is both terrible and simple. It’s because they don’t want to be caught in obvious contradictions when “If a republican does it, it’s fine. If a democrat does it, it’s wrong”.

This is absolutely so that if a Democrat president decided to do exactly what trump did, they’ll allow prosecution because “inciting a riot to steal an election is obviously not an official act.” This leaves the door open for Ken Star style witch hunts against their political opponents.

We have a fascist supreme court.