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Can anyone suggest a candidate other than Biden or Trump that look fairly moderate and a good choice? I have ruled out all third-party, all alternative democrats, and of course Trump... This leaves me thinking maybe one of the republican candidates are worth voting for but so far every one of those I checked out are pretty horrific too...
Is there even one candidate that is remotely a reasonable and moderate choice?
@freemo There was this "sanders" that sounded halfway reasonable. What happened to him?
@admitsWrongIfProven @freemo He said "moderate"
@LouisIngenthron @freemo Oh, survival of the human race is not an option. Noted.
@admitsWrongIfProven @freemo Have you *seen* how humans behave?
No, I think a prerequisite to survival is, y'know, "wanting to survive" and it seems like a majority of our species is ambivalent to that at best.
@LouisIngenthron @freemo Well, this "sanders" person seems to try. I cannot claim such, i am complacant in our demise. Supportive, even. It is ok if there are no more humans.
@admitsWrongIfProven @freemo That's not an unreasonable position to be in.
As for trying, the Crusaders were trying to make the world a better place by spreading the word of Christ; how well did that work out?
Trying is only half the battle. *How* you try is equally as important, and that's where the issues with Sanders arise.
@admitsWrongIfProven @freemo Ah, I see @freemo beat me to it.
@LouisIngenthron @freemo Afaik the dems pushed him out illegally?
@admitsWrongIfProven @freemo Not to my knowledge. He just lost the primary, like he always does.
More complicated than that... He won the primaries one year in terms of direct votes.. but despite him winning the "normal" vote the superdelegates override this and he was denied the primary anyway.
Its kind of ironic cause people yell and scream about Trump being elected despite not winning the popular vote when they do this regularly within their own party.
@freemo @admitsWrongIfProven Well, yeah, because a party's inner workings don't have to be democratic. Most regular folks don't participate in them anyway, so it's already skewed towards political insiders. That seems more reasonable to me than nonsense like the electoral college for the actual vote.
@LouisIngenthron @freemo Hm, seems legit. US not built on democracy sounds right.
Just sad we can't do any better, here. Got a nice constitution, it's just ignored all the time.
