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
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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.
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a *lot* of people wanted Biden. he was ahead in polls basically the entire time. his support isn't very online. but it was real, and it's why he won.
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Yeah you can say a lot of things about Biden but he absolutely was not an "undemocratic" choice, he is very clearly the choice of the D electorate
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I say this as someone who has basically no affection for Biden If you took the names off the candidates and just looked at what the actions are, the stuff you'd have to do as the DNC to keep Bernie viable longer feels a lot more like manipulation than what they did do
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I.e. telling the other candidates who were obviously no-hopers (Mayor Pete and Klobuchar) to stay in and protect Bernie from elimination and try to pipeline people away from Biden toward Bernie over the next few races
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