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Unfortunately, the time for a better candidate was last election cycle. Incumbency advantage is too critical to give up.

That being said, voting harder won’t ever move America to the left, that has to be done at the grassroots level.

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Incumbency advantage is too critical to give up.

At this point, what advantage? He’s been polling worse than Trump. He’s more of an anchor than an engine now.

That being said, voting harder won’t ever move America to the left, that has to be done at the grassroots level.

With Dems there’s always an excuse to do nothing and hope really hard for vague change later.

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Incumbency advantage persists. Swapping to a new candidate would likely be worse, even if the candidate is better, purely based on electoralism.

Yes, the dems do nothing. This is better than Republicans, who do a lot of bad shit. Voting dem won’t fix issues, it will just prevent many more from cropping up. What fixes issues is grassroots praxis.

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This, I keep telling people this…

No Democrats will not fix anything, yes we should still vote for them.

It’ll be easier to grassroots change if we don’t have Republicans, who will not only react negatively to grassroots (As opposed to Democrats who are more malleable), but prove every day that they can go further right than “We should literally hunt the poor for sport.”

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Incumbency advantage persists. Swapping to a new candidate would likely be worse, even if the candidate is better, purely based on electoralism.

I’m sure many people will be comforted by that when he loses.

Yes, the dems do nothing. This is better than Republicans, who do a lot of bad shit.

Read up on the Ratchet Effect.

What fixes issues is grassroots praxis.

I too, like vague undefined concepts that obfuscate real potential solutions.

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Trump’s literally facing felonies and is inelligible for the ballot in a few states

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