I wonder if their goal is to undermine America as a whole, stoke apathy and distrust, and produce a certain strategic outcome.

Which candidate do you suggest, givesomefucks?

Voters choose the candidate in the primary, not “the DNC”.

Which candidate do you suggest, givesomefucks?

What? Bernie participated in the primary and got half the number of votes that Biden did. Biden won greater than 50% of the votes (not just the delegates).

Why would Bernie have advanced as the candidate?

If you let a torrent of bullshit versus a guy with a cold make you stay home and not vote, yes.

If everyone hates you, it’s generally not everyone else’s fault.

Look at your own efforts here. Shrill, ideological rigidity that pisses off the people you’re hoping your argument will reach.

“Progressives” don’t have a candidate who can win a primary, much less a general election.

we’re fucked

yeah, communities should have subject tag sets. I don’t care for anime or sports or video games - i should be able to turn off those tags. Not block 50 different game communities ad hoc

This guy is going to “both sides” himself into a right-wing dictatorship.

Prices have recently been coming down on groceries, gasoline, and consumer goods. Even Target and McDonalds have announce price cuts.

If the democrats had solid control of both houses of congress and the presidency, you would be seeing a single-payer option for health care.

This isn’t true at all.

Just as quick examples, under Democrats, gay people got the right to marry. The Affordable Care Act was passed. And real pay has gone up under Biden.

That’s not mentioning the major climate and infrastructure legislation, dismissal of student debt, rights for DACA holders, etc.

So what are you going to do? Sit out? Republicans winning pulls the Democrats further to the right - since the majority of the votes went to the right; it doesn’t make them think “by golly, most of the nation is to the left of us!”. The most progressive viable party receiving an unquestionable mandate from voters would pull them towards a more progressive position.

If you refuse to vote for Democrats because they don’t perfectly align with your progressive ideals, this is what you get - potentially decades of work implementing environmental, anticorruption, and social justice rolled back by a court that has been stacked with extreme right wingers to legislate from the bench for unpopular outcomes.

There is one viable party that both implements more progressive policies and names judges that will uphold them - do not throw your vote away.

If you refuse to vote for Democrats because they don’t perfectly align with your progressive ideals, this is what you get - potentially decades of work implementing environmental, anticorruption, and social justice rolled back by a court that has been stacked with extreme right wingers to legislate from the bench for unpopular outcomes.

There is one viable party that both implements more progressive policies and names judges that will uphold them - do not throw your vote away.

Yeah, the CCP’s history of espionage kind of puts it in this position.

do they have a nuke that works?