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If there's no second candidate who could win, and everyone is railroaded into a unity response, it seems like a dubious third-world election, where you sometimes see dubious numbers like that.
Since election operations cost money; we could save a few bucks just anointing Biden today, if we don't intend to actually parse the primary results to figure out the electorate's needs.
…….no!? lmao?! pls tell me you are joking
if anything that would make the election more anti-democratic, fascist and (to use your word) third-world. to what, assume the winner of an election and skip it? that is, emphatically, absurd.
the reason the incumbent always sweeps in their party is already to save money. because it’s more or less pointless for the party to compete against itself when they already have the person they elected in office.
but it’s still important that the primary happen because a) it’s a safety in case the politician turns out to be bad faith and not represent the wishes of the party (this happened with George Santos iirc) or b) in the very case of this post, where Democratic voters are expressing dissatisfaction with the candidate but do not want to risk a Republican win.
this is kind of basic US politics, so if you are just hearing about this, no worries. you are wrong and i don’t want to dog on you for that but you might want to do some research and listen to some more experienced leftist commentary. i won’t claim to be the best place to get this info.