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I think you're confused...
Pretty much the only way to qualify being a good candidate is winning elections.
And in our system it's just two candidates. So sometimes it's two good ones, sometimes it's two bad ones. Very rarely it's one of each and a landslide victory.
A good candidate gets people to vote for them. A bad candidate doesn't. But if they're bad enough, people vote against them.
But if both parties run candidates bad enough that people vote against them, the Republicans usually win.
By playing their game and compromising with a bad candidate who isn't as terrible as Republicans, we're just hurting our chances.
We need a 2008 Obama candidate and trump wouldn't stand a chance in hell. Any progressive leaning Dem under 45 could moonwalk into the White House and accomplish anything Biden manages but without the progenocide shit.
Hell, I think Pete would be a much worse president, but he's 100 times the candidate as Biden and could easily beat trump. Besides Hillary I'm struggling to find a big name Dem who would do worse than Biden, maybe Manchin or Pelosi?
I would vote for Soros just to own the dumb, but he’d probably be a terrible candidate.
He's also a decade older than Biden.