Step-Back Lauri
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American president has way too much power. When they get rid of Trump and maga on some day, one of the first, extremely necessary actions will be to significantly strip down the executive power of the president.
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That's always the risk, of course the voters can always vote in who they want, and that is, as often as not, not necessarily the best candidate. But to simply blame it all on the voters and not recognize the role the party had to play is a cop out. To not even attempt to play the game at hand means you start at an automatic disadvantage. That's the problem we were faced with and that's the primary reason we are where we are. They didn't field someone that the majority felt they could vote for, obviously, and this should be a surprise to exactly no one. That's what I'm going on about, not just hypothetical best candidates but the reality that a sub-par candidate was fielded without even an attempt at finding someone better, but then we need to blame the voters for not voting for our crappy candidate. No this was a systemic failure that to me shows the Democratic party has been out of touch with the zeitgeist nearly a decade. They have known the plan of attack of the Republicans for at least that long and done really nothing to counter it, any now we get "oooo those stupid voters!" It's just idiocy to place blame there at this juncture and it's counter productive because they can happily wave their hands at "oh those stupid voters" and feel no need to change anything. But change it needed if they want to have a chance at winning this thing. Because they have found out the hard way what most reasoned people have understood for a long time, that the electorate is generally easily misled and manipulated and, yes, largely, dumb. And that in these circumstances if you aren't prepared to fight fire with fire you are setting yourself up to lose. We barely squeaked by with one of the worst candidates we have seen in a long time in an obviously over-the-hill Biden. And we didn't learn anything because after finally putting him out to pasture we replaced him with maybe the only candidate we could have picked with worse real-world odds of winning. So yeah the voters were dumb and voted for the more evil candidate, but the Dems didn't do themselves any favors in who they trotted out there in the first place.Im just using my opinion
The clear best candidate should win the election. In this case Harris was clearly the better candidate of the two.
Let's just say hypothetically that the Democrats put your number one perfect candidate in the race and they play the game exactly like you think they should and trump won anyway. Would you just continue to blame the Democrats or would you blame the voters in that scenario?
It was obvious all along who the better choice was and voters chose the worse option. If the Democrats put out an even more obviously better choice then the voters still might have just chose trump anyways.
He's a human trafficker that got a sweetheart deal. He's probably a fed operative. He should be in prison.What happened to Beau, it was Beau, right?
He does some other show and his wife has been doing these for quite a while now. It actually started pretty much the same time Harris became the nominee and I thought that maybe it was intentional to provide a female voice during the campaign but that wasn't it. Initially they made it seem like it was indefinite but temporary. At this point I think it is permanent.What happened to Beau, it was Beau, right?