Watching that debate, it was great to see the old Elizabeth Warren come back. I thought she had disappeared in 2015.
Now I hope she sticks it out until the convention and keeps going after Bloomberg like that.
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Not only that but caucuses are inaccessible. In an election where one of the major issues is the availability of healthcare, many of the people who would be most effective aren’t able to have a say, because they can’t stand around in a gym or auditorium for several hours due to disability, inability to get or afford childcare, or they have to work. For that reason alone, caucuses are undemocratic.
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Google Maps?
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lmao he’s spinning this as a victory
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In Bernie, Joe or Pete it would be passion. Righteousness. From Elizabeth, it’s “Not a good look.” That, my friends, is misogyny. And AOC is right, if you aren’t angry about those things that would be a problem.
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If you aren’t angry, you aren’t paying attention. (Or it is a willful choice because you are profiting from the system.)
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Uncle Joe’s at it again…
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…How could you leave me here alone with Uncle Walter?
Your Uncle Walter told me everything he’d do if he was president
Ah what a perfect world this world would be…if he was president…BUT HE’S NOT
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Of course they do. The Democrats tried back room deals (all candidates through Humphrey) and pure democratic choice (eg, McGovern). The Hunt commission was formed after the 1980 shitshow, and the creation of superdelegates was a compromise with which nobody was ecstatic. While they haven’t gone away, they’ve been reexamined and reconsidered every cycle since.
I’ve never heard a good example where I thought they’d really make things better.
In all the elections since their creation they’ve never made things better or worse; they’ve had no effect at all. It is possible that we could eliminating them without ever noticing. Or, it might happen in their absence that in some cycle nobody will have a majority, the two top candidates will be close in delegates but miles apart in ideology, and the nominee will be selected through some kind of terrible ad-hoc process. This is what happened in '68, and any way to keep that from happening again is better than nothing.
Hey, speaking of NDAs, this isn’t cartoonishly sinister or anything. I mean, they couldn’t do a better job of destroying people’s trust in them or the system if they tried.
Just like I’m assuming Bloomberg is lying until he releases all those women from the NDAs, I’m assuming these guys are lying until they release all the volunteers from the NDAs.
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If anything, I think that superdelegates changing the outcome would be worse for the party’s long-term prospects than 1968 was.
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Interestinger and interestinger.
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Let the red-baiting commence!
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Had it stopped?
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Anybody living a seminormal lifestyle in the US is in violation of multiple Levitical codes. The punishment for pretty much any of them is death. So there’s that…
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Also, one of the Bible passages that some Christians use to justify persecution of homosexuals is the fall of Sodom. Ironic, because the reason called out for the destruction of Sodom is specifically because of wealth inequality…
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