• megopie@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    6 hours ago

    It is true that she didn’t have enough time to put together a viable platform, but if Biden had dropped out early enough for her to develop a viable campaign and platform, that would have meant a primary, and it’s doubtful she would have won that primary.

    Even if she had won that primary, it’s still doubtful that she would have assembled a viable platform and campaign. The political cliques she was aligned with were diametrically opposed to the kind of policies that would have made a viable platform.

    A break from neoliberal politics was necessary. But basically all of the institutional pressure for Biden to drop out came from neoliberal diehards who were pissed at him for deviating from that line slightly, the age thing was mainly just an acceptable cover story for the insiders. Haris got her chance by appealing to those groups and thus she was never going to challenge those interests.

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      4 hours ago

      Oh she never in 100 years would have won a primary. She was like rank 8 of 10 in the 2020 primaries, people do not like her

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        4 hours ago

        I voted for her but don’t like her.

        Primarily, because of her stance on prison labor which is just slavery with extra steps.

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          4 hours ago

          Yeah, I voted for her too, as I would have voted for Biden or for a fucking Funko doll over Trump.