• pivot_root@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    They railroaded Clinton into being the 2016 candidate and appointed Harris as the 2024 one. The DNC leadership doesn’t care what their constituents actually want.

    Uncoincidentally, that’s why said leadership needs to be replaced.

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        4 hours ago

        Right, and we get around it by showing up in numbers to vote. But of course people need to actually step up and run for the nominations, too. I’m eager to see how David Hogg’s funding efforts pan out.

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      They railroaded Clinton into being the 2016 candidate and appointed Harris as the 2024 one.

      Clinton won the popular vote in the 2016 primaries. Nonratfuckety was needed. No superdelegates needed to cast a single vote at the convention because she had enough pledged elected delegates. The party even changed the rules starting in 2018 so that superdelegates don’t even get a vote in the convention unless the pledged delegates can’t elect a nominee in the first round of voting.

      The DNC leadership doesn’t care what their constituents actually want.

      Which is why we have to actually show up and out-vote them instead of losing elections to “teach them a lesson” which hurts us more than it does them.

      Uncoincidentally, that’s why said leadership needs to be replaced.

      Yes indeed. And the DNC leadership elections after the last election have finally started that shift towards more progressive leadership (notice that the leaders are voted into office, that and people had to participate in that vote, it’s kind of a theme here 😋).