Can’t Americans do something to change the way elections happen? I still think 81 is too old to run as a politician let alone a president. People say America is one of the greatest democracies but I’m really not seeing it.
Also no offence guys, I’m not into politics. Just a layman question.
The TL;DR of it is that the people with the power to change that are the same people who benefit from it the most and therefore whose best interests are to prevent it from changing.
And America is the greatest democracy in the same way that corporations find that they did nothing wrong upon investigating themselves.
Our democracy is a great democracy the way an antique car is a great car: great in its time, but it’s time for an upgrade.
What i dont get about Biden running again is that there seemed to be like no democratic race to the candidacy? Or did it just completely fall flat in international media? I know Trump went late to the Reps race and then dominated it, but there was already Cruz and some candidates that tried to win on a “Trump is best” kinda position.
But for the Dems there seemed to be not even a real discussion to send anyone but Biden.
How can people be fine with this? How can the “best” both parties have to offer be more or less mentally unstable men that are clearly too old to lead a country and have a realistic chance of dying in office? How come the Dems have not understood after 2016 and 2020 that they need to stop being a right wing neoliberal party that fucks over poor people just slightly slower than the Reps?
Because it is between absurdly rare and unprecedented for a sitting president running for a second term to not get the given the significant advantage an incumbent possesses. The party not standing by the practical and spiritual leader of the party would have been taken by most amaricans as surefire evidence that the party had discovered a scandal about his so massive and overwhelming it put everything Trump ever did to shame.
While the primaries were and are an excellent place to put pressure on the sitting president to actually do something, their outcome was a forgone conclusion unless Amarican voters cared a whole lot more about Palestine than they actually do, as that was the primary thing that changed between 2020 and 2024 where Biden’s perspective has an impact. Practically, the time to find a better candidate are 2019 and 2027, the mid presidency elections are a time to push the president to fulfill more campaign promises. Something that is more difficult when the legislature is controlled by obstructionists who are publicly committed to blocking everything they possibly can until they have complete control.
A sitting president will get the nomination 99% of the time and typically runs essentially unopposed in the primaries.
I gotta ask the “I’m not a fan of Biden” crowd. Why? And not who he is, or what he hasn’t done. What’s something you don’t like that he has done in this presidency, and then hasn’t tried to correct?
I would then ask, did you watch the entire State of the Union?
Having 91 criminal charges ahead of you don’t matter if you become president and pardon yourself.
Don’t forget to vote, please. Saying this as a non US citizen who is just tired of US shenanigans. please don’t let Trump become president again
They don’t mean anything if he loses either. I don’t think Democrates will let Trump not be a Republican nominee, it would be harder for them to win elections if they have someone more sane as competition. This is why Hilary’s campaign supported Trump and why Trump is there in the first place, so they can win more easily.
I can reiterate that here from australia.
All this extremist bigoted pro-gun anti-education right wing bs is spreading to countries like Australia too. He has made idiots proud to be idiots, and encouraged them to be anti-science
I’m a fan of Biden and agree, it’s 100% true.
not a fan of either, and I agree
Not gonna lie, Biden cooked with this one