In a matchup between Biden and Trump, many young voters say they might choose silence.

  • AnonTwo@kbin.social
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    11 months ago

    Think of it this way

    By the next election one choice isn’t eligible anymore, and the second will likely be so buried under court cases he won’t be able to.

    So it’s more of a “finish what was started” and hopefully by the next election we’ll finally have some new people to worry about.

    • givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      4 years is a long time…

      And we literally just used that excuse 4 years ago and are going to have the exact two candidates…

      And history shows we’ll likely still have to pick between two elderly out of touch white men in another four years.

      One will probably be actually evil again, and the other will likely think changing anything is too rash of a decision and things are changing to fast already.

      The entire point of running for office is getting people to vote for you, that’s why the party places so much importance on large corporate donations.

      But when a moderate candidate can’t get voters energized because they’re too pro business and won’t help Americans, suddenly it’s the Americans fault.

      Maybe we should re-evalute if “bringing millions from corporations and billionaires” is really more important in a candidate than “people like this person and want to vote for them”.

      We keep running historically unpopular candidates in the general and then getting mad they’re not popular with voters.

      Why keep doing it over and over again?

      • crusa187@lemmy.ml
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        11 months ago

        Why keep doing it over and over again?

        Because these corrupt politicians deliver big time for their donors. For recent examples, just look at the massive $2 trillion in tax cuts for the rich and corporations Trump passed. That was pretty much his only legislative accomplishment. And then Biden made those cuts permanent. (Ok, not exactly, he raised them back up a small amount by closing a couple loopholes but not close to what they were pre-trump).

        If the established power structure won’t allow outsiders to run, and the donors always get what they want, I ask this question instead:

        Why would things ever change from here?