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I must admit that I got scared when Biden noped out of the re-election.

I’m just glad that Kamala seems to be bringing the unification the dems need.

Get her the nomination already! And people, people, people, don’t do a Hillary and become complacent. Get out and VOTE!

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Anybody that feared Biden dropping out needs to re-evaluate the way they look at politics. This has been a long time coming, and has been an inevitability since 2015 when Democrat party leadership decided they could pull a fast one during the primary. Before we even knew Biden would be that incumbent, the shape of this election had already been decided.

Now that Biden has dropped out, the Democrats have a chance. A lot of future history depends on how well Harris can turn the support for “Literally anyone else” to her advantage.

Edit: I seem to be getting a lot of downvotes for my objectively correct assessments of politics. Seems to me like y’all are either mad that I was right, or Republicans who are mad that Biden dropped out.

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Anybody that feared Biden dropping out needs to re-evaluate the way they look at politics.

In what way?

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I don’t know. It’s been pretty clear for a while that the traditional Democrat strategy of winning by courting centrists and staying the course has been less and less effective every election. Tapping into enthusiasm for leftist policies and energizing the base to increase turnout has seemed like the better move for a while. That’s what Obama won big on and then completely failed to deliver.

Staying the course with the “nothing will fundamentally change” candidate was always a path to losing, and after his disastrous policy on Gaza we were in a nosedive.

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I’d been getting shit on for years for trying to tell people Biden would have to drop out to give the Democrats a chance this election. Lo and behold, once he finally does, Democrats are suddenly on track to win.

Everyone who didn’t understand that this was going to be the case had their heads buried too deep in the sand to hear any of the legitimate, well intentioned criticism of their preferred candidate or the arguments for why switching would be a good thing. Such folks who accused me of being a Republican or a Russian bot when I was actually right cannot be trusted to perform political analysis.

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Not a single person voting Democrat does so because they thought Biden was a great candidate.

It appears nobody has learned anything from Hillary’s loss in 2016.

Establishment ghouls are not popular Democrats. Conservatives will vote Republican anways, appeasing to the right is worthless.

Only progressives get independents to vote blue.

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Not a single person voting Democrat does so because they thought Biden was a great candidate.

This is where you lost me. As if boomer Democrats are not a thing. But let’s keep on reading…

It appears nobody has learned anything from Hillary’s loss in 2016.

Lost me again. I don’t know why people keep forgetting about 2020.

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It’s unlikely that they forgot about boomer Democrats. Many of us have parents or grandparents who qualify. I can’t think of a single person who told me how great of a candidate Biden was. I don’t remember anyone who was extremely excited by the policies he wanted to enact. Of course I can only talk about people that I met, my friends and family and community.

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Biden won marginally because he was marginally better than Hillary and was the Obama guy.

Bernie would have won by a landslide.

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Not a single person voting Democrat does so because they thought Biden was a great candidate.

Tell me you’re unaware of his achievements as president without telling me…

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Propagandists are fully aware, and choose to ignore said achievements as it fucks up their narrative.

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I am aware Joe Biden is complicit in Genocide and performed like a senile geriatric on CNN.

Tell me you don’t live in America without telling me.

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I would rather say appeasing to right wing voters with right wing rethoric is worthless.

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