• Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world
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          If a leftist candidate can’t beat a liberal

          in primaries that liberals run dishonestly for their own benefit. When they have them at all.

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              All the more reason to not second guess the electorate and force garbage genocidal candidates on them. Though it’s nice to see that democrats can use the justification that republicans do it too, but only when it suits the cause of shutting out the progressives you prefer trump to.

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                Do you expect the power structure to bow to your moral superiority and hand you the election wrapped up with a bow on it?

                A candidate has to fight and organize the community to support them. If they aren’t politically savvy enough to win public opinion over literal genocide supporters, they don’t have what it takes to survive in politics.

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                  Do you expect the power structure to bow to your moral superiority and hand you the election wrapped up with a bow on it?

                  I expect the “democratic” party to live up to its name and have equitable rules for its primaries that it adheres to. And also to actually hold primaries consistently and not just make up excuses to disregard the will of the people.

                  I get that you like the system that puts genocide supporters like yourself in office.

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                    You might as well wait for the Democratic Peoples Republic of North Korea to hold up to its name too. Don’t be so naive.

                    If you are waiting for your opponents to be fair, you will be waiting till you die. You have to be able to win in spite of it being unfair.

                    I get that you like the system that puts genocide supporters like yourself in office.

                    Pick a year and I will tell you which genocide or genocides this country was supporting. There are always a few. You don’t get to change that unless you take power and you don’t get to take power unless you win genocide supporters over to your side.