…who is the alternative that's great enough to offset inherent incumbent advantage?
I would think Michelle Obama. Too bad she doesn't want to be president.
…who is the alternative that's great enough to offset inherent incumbent advantage?
every country has greed. The US is a country with legalized bribery by way of unlimited campaign contributions to politicians even from corporations themselves. Until we change that, this country will be an oligarchy and wealth inequality will increase at record levels and in so doing, exacerbate societal ills.
I'm just torn, because I think we are fucked in 2024 regardless, so its between just trotting Biden out there and let him get his big expected referendum (Kamala Harris might even faire worst than Biden as a 2nd option), or try with someone new, but just reading "the room" (aka the general USA electorate) its most likely going to be DeSantis or Trump as President in 2024.
I probably wouldn't waste any promising young Dems on our country in 2024 as the climate won't be right for them. Their best bet would be getting in on another GOP referendum in 2028 (because they never got any good ideas for the country and always fuck everything up in short order.
And honestly, I think the timeline of Biden somehow winning 2024 (probably only chance is if GOP does trot Trump out there again) is almost as worse, because he will continue to be ineffective, have a congress fully skewed to the GOP blocking everything and then it will for sure be 4-8 years of GOP control after that. Probably better to just take the 2024-2028 loss and then ride a possible blue wave in 2028.
if desantis wins he'll do the full 8 years. incumbents have a huge advantage. trump would have cruised back to the white house if a once in a century pandemic wasn't killing americans by the hundreds of thousands.I'm just torn, because I think we are fucked in 2024 regardless, so its between just trotting Biden out there and let him get his big expected referendum (Kamala Harris might even faire worst than Biden as a 2nd option), or try with someone new, but just reading "the room" (aka the general USA electorate) its most likely going to be DeSantis or Trump as President in 2024.
I probably wouldn't waste any promising young Dems on our country in 2024 as the climate won't be right for them. Their best bet would be getting in on another GOP referendum in 2028 (because they never got any good ideas for the country and always fuck everything up in short order.
And honestly, I think the timeline of Biden somehow winning 2024 (probably only chance is if GOP does trot Trump out there again) is almost as worse, because he will continue to be ineffective, have a congress fully skewed to the GOP blocking everything and then it will for sure be 4-8 years of GOP control after that. Probably better to just take the 2024-2028 loss and then ride a possible blue wave in 2028.
I'm just torn, because I think we are fucked in 2024 regardless, so its between just trotting Biden out there and let him get his big expected referendum (Kamala Harris might even faire worst than Biden as a 2nd option), or try with someone new, but just reading "the room" (aka the general USA electorate) its most likely going to be DeSantis or Trump as President in 2024.
I probably wouldn't waste any promising young Dems on our country in 2024 as the climate won't be right for them. Their best bet would be getting in on another GOP referendum in 2028 (because they never got any good ideas for the country and always fuck everything up in short order.
And honestly, I think the timeline of Biden somehow winning 2024 (probably only chance is if GOP does trot Trump out there again) is almost as worse, because he will continue to be ineffective, have a congress fully skewed to the GOP blocking everything and then it will for sure be 4-8 years of GOP control after that. Probably better to just take the 2024-2028 loss and then ride a possible blue wave in 2028.
A fucking nothingburger of an article. Media desperately wants to push this narrative.
And Biden is completely against doing anything about it, bought and paid for.The problems with this country is dark money. Biden had an agenda and two senators fuck it up because of dark money.
And Biden is completely against doing anything about it, bought and paid for.
He will never leverage the pitiful remaining power he might have.
lol whispers, they should be screaming it through a megaphone.
lolno. Biden is fucked, but so is every other potential candidate. But if democrats are ticked that they can't do fulfil their agenda they need to stop looking for a sacrificial leader and start looking in a mirror instead. Republicans are pieces of shit who will block anything and everything they do. So Democrats need to get their heads out of their own asses and cooperate with eachother for a change. They need to boot and replace the disidents and get to work actually and cooperate to actually pass shit.Would any other democratic candidate have a better chance of beating whichever republicans candidate is running?
They pushed Biden on us and now they want to get rid of him because he's not giving them enough attention like Trump
I mean tbh my thinking is that if Dems put up an alternate candidate and lose we all know the blame is gonna fall on progressives/Bernie bros/defund the police/BLM that we lost and that'll be another blow establishment will use against us.
Whereas if Biden runs and loses blame falls on him and establishment in that way.
So nah, stand on your shit Joe, you can take that hit if it comes to it
The added fact too is I think he has the better shot of winning so there's that too
Eh, the media had totally written Biden off by February 2020 and was priming for a Trump/Sanders or Warren race. Biden wasn't even considered a contender anymore. I mean, the New York Times endorsed Warren and Klobuchar. It's an indictment of how bad political punditry is that they whiffed on the pulse of the electorate two presidential elections in a row. I read these same articles about Biden being done is 2019 and now he's the president. Nobody knows anything.
This is a consultant driven article by people who largely have a vested interest in seeing a dem primary.
He has 82% approval with dems if he wants renomination he'll get it.
These articles and largely media driven gossip pieces are so tiresome because they get news shows to talk about this rather than report on things like congresses inaction, actual policies being passed, court wins and losses, etc. that's why people thing the president have giant misunderstandings of how politics works
For sure, but this seems like a pretty obvious trap for the leftThey'll still find a way to blame progressives. They always do.
You're right, he should continue to be silent and do nothing.Please, go on about what you think a president can do about Citizens United. This unambiguously needs a constitutional amendment or a 5-4 liberal court, which are decades away at best.
"It doesn't matter that he can't do anything, he should do something!"
Tbh there's not really any point in getting angry at those people either bc the average citizen can't do anything about a Supreme Court or creating a new constitutional amendment"Internet user that has no idea what a president is or does doesn't like what president is doing in role"
You should get angry at the people actually preventing the things you want to get done rather than blaming the wrong people and getting angry over imagined failings. Biden's appointments and international diplomacy to hold the line on Ukraine are the types of things the presidency can actually control that he's done a pretty good job on. The new wave of unionization has been enabled by his appointments to the NLRB.
"It doesn't matter that he can't do anything, he should do something!"
I'm not a huge fan of Biden, but Trump won't beat him. Trump is not as unstoppable as people like to make him out to be. He's losing straw poll within his party.
The fact we even have to ascertain the possibility that Dems are screwed for 2022 makes my head hurt. Who the fuck decides to vote Republican or refrain from voting when being bombarded day in and out with the sexist, racist, evil that is the GOP?
The fact we even have to ascertain the possibility that Dems are screwed for 2022 makes my head hurt. Who the fuck decides to vote Republican or refrain from voting when being bombarded day in and out with the sexist, racist, evil that is the GOP?
After redistricting, the House only barely has a systematic R skew. The Senate classing is too erratic to predict with confidence, and presidential appointments matter a ton. The NLRB has had a huge impact, judicial appointments matters, the justice department matters, and regulatory departments matter.
On top of that, Biden had actually been really goddamn great in getting the world to have a unified front on Ukraine. Turns out decades on the Foreign Relations Committee actually teach a person a lot about pressure and diplomacy?
Again, the chance of any other Dem actually winning would almost undeniably be worse.This is a tough one because although it's ridiculous to replace him as the candidate for 2024 I also think his chances of winning in 2024 are extreme low. So I can see why there would be people wanting someone else to run. From their perspective I suppose they think Dem chances couldn't get any worse.
I doubt anyone else will get more party support than him so probablyIf Biden is the best the Democrats have lord help us all. How has politics led us to this.