What does it mean that the DNC is sticking with Genocide Joe?

Either they're happy to support Israel's genocide or they're deluded that there's no option.

Do they know that Trump is just one of many mouthpieces for GOP-oligarch fascism?

Do they see that -- if they really value democracy -- they'll need a candidate willing & able to fight not just Trump, but the whole stinking brigade?

Just as myriad others have done across the globe, people power could install a fighting candidate.
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@DrALJONES

Honestly I think they are just playing their best hand. I dont like Biden, he is a racist asshat.But even i have to admit that going with a different choice for the DNC is likely to make them look weak and ultimately cost them the election.

@freemo

Understand that point, but, from an outsider's point of view, they lost the plot entirely when they sold themselves to oligarchs decades ago.
That's why I think people power is the only way left to defeat fascism.

@DrALJONES

Well look the GOP and DNC were morally corrupt since before either of us came into this world, thats for sure.

@freemo

It's been super bad since the 1970s when Rockefeller installed the Trilateral Commission into cabinet.

@DrALJONES There are a few points that accelerated things towards decline on both sides... I think the biggest event in more recent history was 911, things went really south after that and has gotten worse every year.

@freemo

Yes, agree, but Cheney was already running things

@DrALJONES

Corrupt politicians are the symptom, not the problem. Its the people, the citizens whoa re the real problem.

@freemo

Sorry, you know I like nuance 🙂

That's waaay too black/white for me 🙂

@DrALJONES

Some things are black and white... the people have the power, and they bare the responsibility as a result.

How much power do the people actually have, though, really?

@Hyolobrika

I mean unless you beleive some conspiracy theory nonsense about the elections being rigged, all of it.

@DrALJONES

But everyone is trapped in thinking that there are only two options and they have to vote for "the lesser of two evils" which means the two evils remain the dominant force which leads back to the first thing I said in an vicious cycle.

@Hyolobrika @DrALJONES @freemo In a "first past the post" system it is legitimately one or the other.

@wholemilk

No it isnt, in first pas tthe post you will get a **tendency** towards 2 choices getting the bulk of the votes. But such a system does **not** maintain the same two choices as dominante in each election.

In fact quite the opposite in FPTP systems minor parties or choices tend to go from <5% suppport to a majority choice in a single election cycle.

In the USA for example we have had a primary party be replaced with a third party in a signle election cycle, after which the old primary party never becomes primary again, 8 times in the history of the USA.

So we have plenty of examples that FPTP voting actually does allow for more than 2 parties, it just gives the illusion that it does.

@Hyolobrika @DrALJONES

@freemo @Hyolobrika @DrALJONES What are these 8 times in US history where a third party replaced the primary party?