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Who could have imagined that refusing to release information you publicly promised to release would also be a distraction?
All I remember is the Democrats taking careful aim and blowing their own damned fool foot off by skipping primaries and choosing a COP as the candidate. Trump Bad was a crappy message, Kamala is a terrible politician.
All but two states had candidates for president on their Democratic primary ballots (fuck those two that didn't). My state had like 7 candidates to pick from. And then again for the convention, after Biden dropped out, they opened up the field for candidates to declare again and the pledged delegates all voted on the nominee. What you really should be mad at is that there weren't any serious challengers running, but that's the fault of those individuals for not doing so (even it was under private pressure from the DNC it was their own choice to capitulate). You're also forgetting that a measly 4% of primary voters showed up to vote for "Uncommitted," which turned out to be hugely successful in drawing media attention to the discontent of active voters and contributed to Biden's eventual stepping down.
yeah I have plenty of gripes with the DNC but having the vice president run in the presidents place when he stepped down is not one of them. Honestly the whole super delegate thing bothers me way more than that one thing.
they changed the convention rules for superdelegate in 2017, now they don't even get to vote for the nominee unless the pledged delegates can't elect a nominee in the first round of voting at the convention. Not that the superdelegates even mattered in 2016, as Hillary won the popular primary vote and had enough pledged delegates.
I’ll keep being mad at the shit ass DNC for everything they did to steal two elections. And hand another to a segregationist rapist corporatist shitbag in Biden.
You should be mad about it. But I think that anger should be expressed by bringing more people to the primaries to tell the DNC we will elect our own nominee rather than roll over and take what they want us to. Look at Mandami and AOC, they got on the ballot in spite of the party insiders and donors, because the people showed up to vote.
Your memory is bad, or, more likely, propagandized.
Biden won the 2024 primaries. He should have admitted to himself he wasn't capable anymore, but he didn't.
By the time he stepped down the Dems had a little problem: they couldn't legally put anyone else on the ballot in a fair number of states. Or at least it would been argued in court they couldn't. Harris was literally the only choice available, unless they just didn't run a candidate in half the country, by virtue of being on the ticket already.
Yes, the Democrats are running a geriocracy and have been openly puppeting a fair number of senile senators for a decade so they probably figured they could get away with it again.
Yes, Biden and the people surrounding him fucked it up by refusing to acknowledge reality.
Yes, Harris obviously wasn't a good enough candidate.
You should probably put a little more effort into knowing what actually happened before complaining though.
It would have been nice if everyone showed up to vote too but I guess another Donald Trump presidency wasn't scary enough for people. Well. Thanks a lot.
Blaming voters for not lining up behind their anointed cop is why the Democrats will keep losing.
The blame doesn't fall wholly on the one side or the other, here. Between the voters, nominees, campaign runners, and the party itself every had something they needed to do to win. Failures were made among all groups and it's valid to point all of them out.
And this article is about the DNC, so changing the topic is one way to deflect from their obvious failures. Blame the voters, right? Even in a post dedicated to discovering where the DNC fucked up.
that's a fair point.
My vote is earned, Democrats couldn’t be bothered and Top Cop asserted she would not be changing Biden’s course if she won. The blame is ALL on the Democrats.
One of the candidates on the ballot will be sworn into office whether you vote or not. So regardless if you're voting for someone or against someone, it's foolish to silence your only voice in the selection process.
With the shamefully antiquated Electoral College still in place, that's an interesting push. Of course, that's assuming there is an election. 😶🌫️
The voters are basically the same every election. Yeah they evolve over time but not quickly. You can't blame populace for being exactly who they are.
They weren't enthusiastic about Kamala, and if you ask me it has everything to do with the economy and approximately fuck all to do with anything else. But you can't fault the people any more than you can fault the tide when there is a flood.
I can absolutely fault every single person who didn't vote in either the primary or the general for giving up their voice. Voting is the only speech that matters in respect to who is sworn into office. If you don't speak up when it counts then I will absolutely call you out for complaining about the result.
Yeah probably, but unfortunately people need to vote.
It would have been nice if everyone showed up to vote too
Democrats dismantled one of the most effective GOTV operations in the Midwest because of an obvious psyop by a college drop out.
That was the beginning of a long and miserable series of defeats at every level of government for the next 18 years.
Gotta wonder what you are supposed to think about a party that won't fight for the VRA, won't fight for the courts, won't fight for DC statehood, and won't fight for the wildly popular anti-war and pro-health care policies that they campaigned on.
At the very fucking least, Biden could have delivered on a prosecution of the Trump administration, rather than telling his voters that Trump had done nothing illegal.
Yeah I understand it's really flabbergasting that we don't have more power and that we can't put forth better choices but we had a choice put before us. You can bring all kinds of other conjecture about it until you're blue in the face but the fact is people had a choice and they made a poor one. Time will tell if it was better in the long run or not, maybe it is better that all the ugliness of pure capitalism is on full gross display, who knows.
this post was submitted on 21 May 2026
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