While I don't prescribe to that particular course of action, I can sorta understand why they may feel it's not necessarily unwarranted. On its surface, you could just label these people "selfish" (and, sure, there is that to a degree), but I don't want to be reductive about these things, because that'll just get us nowhere. I imagine the people sitting out this election (assuming due to hypothetical contested convention shenanigans) would be doing so for sorta-somewhat-kinda-almost-quasi-similar reasons that many young, minority and low-income citizens tend to not vote: they're disillusioned w/ a system that doesn't seem to want to cater to their interests. Granted, their behavior come election day might skew a little closer towards petty lane--but, at the same time, a person's vote shouldn't just be expected (and truthfully, I would like to see some ramification for the DNC's actions, but I struggle thinking of what). Then again... f'n Donald Trump is commander-in-chief o_0
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The part where this requires any intervention from "the party" at all.
People like their doctor, how near an urgent care is, whether you have dental, how low cost your insurance is, etc... all things kept with medicare for all. So when saying people like their insurance, you're implying that they would lose everything they love about their insurance, which is false.
Pete was gonna get killed on ST, and Amy will probably lose her home state.
Democrats would rather at least keep the House of Representatives when all is said and done.
That was GAF, and yes it was infested with centrist assholes and unbearable "yasss queen" Hillary-stans.
Previous elections didn't have a party outsider with a very real threat of snagging the nomination from a crowded field. And 2016 gives us a model of how that can happen when the party as a whole does nothing to stop it.
If Trump thinks he has more to lose by talking, that sure as fuck hasn't been demonstrated since... forever?
same. i get stupid nervous before but when you get into it its surprisingly effortless
Don't think so.
That's a gross misrepresentation of things. Reminder that Bernie handily won the OT poll in 2016 on that site.
If that's your logic, then why didn't either of them drop out before SC then? It's not like either of them were going to do well there either. The timing being strategic makes complete sense.
I never said it's easy. I think he'll beat Biden still though. A leftist who identifies as a dem soc being the front runner shows how good Bernie has been this cycle.
But that's just guessing and building theories out of those guesses, when the simplest answer is most likely to be the correct one.
for me its just the necessity of it. and know that half of the time you're just calling people that aren't home or hang up when they find out its a political call. the reality of how easy it is takes over the nerves quick
Pettiness? Or apathy?
Anything to the left of Republicans will be hard, and anything to the left of this particular overton window (health insurance debate) will be hard to pass. Insurance companies are fighting against single payer at this moment because the public option keeps their wealth in tact more so than single payer. When the debate becomes public option vs Republicans, they will abandon public option because one option keeps their wealth better. Moderate is dependent on republicans so there is no reason to believe public option is more passable just because the overton window was shifted right.
