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(lemmy.world)
Conservatives joke that progressives just blow with the wind from one controversy to the next. But I can't help but notice the anti-Biden "left" shifted hard from Genocide Joe to Bad debate Performance without skipping a beat or looking back.
Almost like the people stoking these fires don't really care about left issues at all.
AOC can run, she will be 35 before inauguration which is what counts.
Biden ran and lost a couple times before he made it against Trump, Warren is more progressive than most of Congress and has already endured Trumps barrages of insults and came out of the wringer intact. Berners are going to struggle to accept her, but she is a compromise candidate between the center and the left.
Buttigieg could do with some more time perhaps, but he's aces in interviews and at least competent in debates. I'm not fond of his work history, but he's better than Biden. Young is also a bonus when you're shifting off of a candidate because they are ancient and can't reasonably do the job anymore.
Being from Michigan I think I like Whitmer less than most of the country, but she's popular here and a recognized name in most States. I really doubt we would get Medicare for all with her, but she's at least a continuation of Biden's agenda on a way more marketable individual.
As for Abrams she lost in a race where her opponent 'oversaw' the election. Personally I don't know if Georgia will go Blue this election, but I think she is recognized in other States and has the kind of activism experience I wish more candidates came to the table with.
Put that against Biden, who has been quietly helping a genocide along, whose single primary win was because he made deals with his opponents to get them to drop out, and who gave a debate performance that was so bad Trump's deranged lying couldn't even hold the news cycle.
"quietly helping a genocide along"? C'mon man. He's been as vocal as a responsible president can be to say Israel is way out of line and he's pissed off about it. He's blocked the arms sales the republiQans eventually forced him to make. He's told Blinken to kick Bibi in the nuts repeatedly. Quietly helping. Please. Is there no one who understands what agreements are? What a treaty is? What foreign policy is FOR? The situation is dire and super fucked up - I don't think Biden would disagree at all. Quietly helping. FFS. Like he's all tee hee this will hurt Palestine for sure heh heh heh. Quietly helping.
Yeah it's usually not done to run against a sitting President who has declared for re-election. For a number of reasons. Those people ran to make those deals. (And to stroke their egos) That's not Biden buying people off that's Biden understanding how politics works. Yes it's gross. Duh.
Well. You got me there. It's true. Agreed on your assessments of the other politicians as well, with the exception of Abrams - she was absolutely cheated in her first run but in her second she had worked for four years to get her voters, who where highly motivated, together and still lost. She'd get my vote but I don't think she'd come close (yet).