A rapidly growing chorus of Democratic lawmakers is calling for President Joe Biden to drop his reelection bid, even as the president insists he’s ready to return to the campaign trail to counter what he calls a “dark vision” laid out by Republican Donald Trump.
      • HasturInYellow@lemmy.world
        81·
        2 年前

        I would vote for anyone. I would vote for Biden, but very much do not want to. If they put someone else in there who wasn’t also a fascist, then I’d vote for them. The problem is that Biden is not doing very well and is being a shit by not listening to anyone around him. Democrats are fucking retarded because this should have been happening 2 or 3 fucking YEARS ago. The Democrats are incompetent pieces of shit who are also the only thing keeping this country together. They need to behave like they actually know how to govern.

      • anticolonialist@lemmy.worldBanned from community
        74·
        2 年前

        That’s correct, the party as a whole do not represent the working class. I would speculate most democrat voters agree but feel trapped in the 2 party system and would never vocally discuss their dissatisfaction for fear of being ostracized by their peers.

        Case in point, the other reply to yours

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          • anticolonialist@lemmy.worldBanned from communityEnglish
            49·
            2 年前

            We are ideologically opposed and will not support your candidates. We do not want the same future as liberals, we are not on your side.

            Liberals have more in common with their republican counterparts than any leftists have with democrats

              • anticolonialist@lemmy.worldBanned from communityEnglish
                310·
                2 年前

                You can keep talking to your blue in the face, there’s a larger chance you would vote for Donald Trump than I would vote for either one of them. Imagine the way that you feel about Republicans not representing your interests, that’s how I feel about both of them. They do not represent the working class. They represent the donor class, not us.

                And since Democrats have all but given up on campaigning, they’re allowing their constituents to conduct their campaign for them. They’re doing a rather shitty job trying to persuade people to vote in their favor. Voters are leading by the example set by the party “shut the fuck up and fall in line, NOW!”

                  • anticolonialist@lemmy.worldBanned from communityEnglish
                    39·
                    2 年前

                    Oh, you must be talking about the same people that are suffering right now. You know, the marginalized, immigrants, LGBTQ+, women’s rights, the working class, etc, etc, etc.

                    Voting for the people that are keeping them marginalized is smug and selfish.

            • dvoraqs@lemmy.world
              1·
              2 年前

              Then are you more aligned with the Republicans or the Democrats? Like it or not, the election system only supports two parties. That’s what we should be pushing towards changing rather than hurting ourselves.

              • anticolonialist@lemmy.worldBanned from community
                25·
                2 年前

                I’m not aligned with either, they represent the donor class, not us. They represent money while we get tossed table scraps.

                The idea of reforming within is futile, no new blood obtains any positions of power until it’s determined they are not a threat to the existing power structure.

                • dvoraqs@lemmy.world
                  1·
                  2 年前

                  Third parties under the First Past the Post voting system are literally the threat to the power structure that will just keep them pushed down by the major parties.

                  The major parties may be afraid of sharing power now, but they are also seeing the threat of losing power completely when they can’t keep their coalitions together.

                  We see Democrats making a major move today with Biden stepping down from the race in order to placate parts of the party that are very unsatisfied. The threat is already more real today than it has ever been.

                  I think that people will realize that we are all in alignment about reforming the election system being better for the country, even to preserve a large part of the current power structure.