I think a lot about how the inevitability of former vice presidents winning presidential primaries, combined with the incompetence with which both pre-VP Biden and Harris ran in primaries before being selected, effectively indicates presidential primaries are non-democratic
-
Show this thread
-
Like, Biden ran for president and nobody wanted him. Harris ran this year and nobody wanted her either. (Plus her campaign was extremely incompetent.) Biden won despite not being any less of a piece of shit than he was sixteen years ago because NAME I RECOGNIZE LOL.
8 replies 2 retweets 42 likesShow this thread -
And despite not even having made it far in the primaries Harris got selected for VP, and in the specious Resistance fever dream in which normality is restored this year and we get an eight-year Pax Bidenis, Harris will probably win that primary for the selfsame reasons
2 replies 0 retweets 25 likesShow this thread -
It honestly shouldn't surprise me how disinterested the Democrats are in even cultivating the _appearance_ of being meritocratic but there it is
3 replies 2 retweets 26 likesShow this thread
What does "meritocracy" mean in this context though? There is no standardized test, the résumé at the highest levels of government is just a list of other things you've been elected to And elections are *always* about networking and getting status from people who have it
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.