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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If you want to take a poll of how people feel about the issues in the abstract and then appoint a nominee whose platform objectively aligns with those positions best then... you should just do that You shouldn't hold an election, because that will give you a different answer
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This is the thing when people get outraged by the DNC going "We're a private organization, in theory we can pick whoever we want" It may sound ugly but it's fundamentally true at the end of the day, and it's not a bad thing in and out itself that that's true
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It's also a spurious premise, especially in the 2020 primaries. It's fundamentally the same narcissistic "other people can't be legitimately voting in ways I disagree with, they must be ignorant, stupid, or knowingly malicious" view that got trotted out in 2016 when Bernie lost.
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