The DNC didn't even hold primaries to select a candidate after Biden decided not to seek re-election. They just decided On Kamala as the nominee with no voting at all.

How is that Remotely Democratic?

An open contest to find a nominee would have been better if the representation of the people was at all important to the democratic party.

Which it obviously isn't.

My point is she has not gone before any voters since 2020, there were no Primaries, she was just declared the nominee by fiat from within the party.

They did the same thing when Every other candidate dropped out to clear the way for Biden in 2020.

It disenfranchises the voters. It makes the election less legitimate than it would be if the voters got to vote on the selection of the candidates.

Duh?

How can you not see this?

It's like you don't want to.

Believe me, many people have noticed how the candidates are carefully selected from Above.

Almost like our system is designed to produce a specific outcome for the Donors.

Or Someone not Visible to the public View. A hidden Cabal.

Just Sayin'.

#18 Electoral Politics is supposed be messy. You want clean and tidy? A Dictatorship is very clean and tidy. No bothersome dissent. No difference of opinions. Just smooth sailing. It's easy to get big things done, because nobody dares to make problems.

America is about choices, we didn't get any from the Democratic party this time around. It was just Love Kamala, Baby, Love Kamala. She's the Nominee, tough ---- if you Disagree.

I think a "Messy" open Convention would have produced a different and better outcome. That's my opinion. Kamala is a weak candidate, she flopped in 2020.

Trump can Take her.

I hope he doesn't, but I'm not voting this time around. I feel like there's no point.

No matter who wins my life won't improve because of my vote.

And America will still Fund and Arm ..the Killers....

I am affected by all of those things. I vote Democratic in every election.

I have seen the Democrats move further and further right every election cycle for 45 years. Like a steady erosion of principles for funding and a moving ever further right of the Overton window.

Bill Clinton,Obama, Biden, all of them talked like they're for the little guy and a level Playing field. They all talked about Universal Healthcare.

Then they "Triangulated" to win right wing voters over, and threw the true Lefty's under the bus.

Even when they "win" their policies are watered down to satisfy the people they had to make promises to get funding.

They're all Whores.

I don't want to vote for Whores anymore.

#32 Fair enough. I'm just tired.

You said Aaron Bushnell was stupid for dying in such a wasteful and horrible way for something he couldn't change and I agree 100%.

America is not United in any way. Half the country wants a Dictator..,the entire political system supports Genocide.. and more importantly puts their Money where their Mouth is.

I feel true Despair at this, not Suicidal or Existential Despair but despair about our entire enterprise as a "democracy"....It's a False Promise.

I respect you because you still believe in that Promise and stood armed and opposed to those who don't. You are a real American.

I know people here think I'm a Russian because of my opinions about Ukraine.

I can't convince people otherwise if they are so certain.

America is supposed to be about the Freedom to Dissent. The freedom to be different ,sexually, politically, socially, spiritually.

Two parties cannot and never will be able to truly represent the diversity of American thought.

Our system is tragically flawed,I see Dictatorship coming,from within.

Russia doesn't need to corrupt our system. It's already fatally flawed.

I will try to get more enthusiastic about Kamala even though I Know she's Lying about Israel and everything else.

#42 I have visited, Poland, the Czech Republic, Germany, Holland. On several different occasions. I am not ignorant of the failings of European governments.

America Could Be the Promise.

We have it in US as a people to be among the greatest ever to live on this Globe of Peril. The potential is clearly there.

The Reality is we're no more Moral or Enlightened than Russia. Or the Democratic Republic of Congo for that matter.

Self interest, Imperialism, Nationalism based on The Punching Down on weaker countries because we CAN. For naked self interest makes us no better than anyone else. Not Exceptional, Not Far Seeing into the Future, just selfish and exploitative.

Sanctions on governments that follow different economic systems or ideologies than we believe to be correct.

Fomenting horrible Fratricidal wars for money and to "weaken" economic or ideological competitors.

If America could mind it's own business... Not fund and Arm Mass Murder with one hand while proclaiming itself the last bastion of Freedom with the other...

Perhaps the Promise could be realized and the world could see the Example of life Well Lived, instead of the Nightmare of Nuclear Domination and the Crushing Fist of unwarranted Sanctions on innocent people.

Dude, you're an Imbecile. Just keep telling yourself that this is the same as Hitler when it clearly isn't.

Misdiagnosed illness doesn't get cured. Lung Cancer can seem like Diabetes, people have died from the mistake.

Putin is Nationalist and somewhat Expansionist. Not Nazism reborn.

The US itself is more like Russia than different from it in many ways.

Both countries see themselves as "Exceptional" far seeing and Superpowers.

Both countries expect other countries to Kiss their Ass. Because of Military power projected indiscriminately. Both countries refuse to recognize International Law. Believing they are Too strong and important for mere association with "Lesser Countries". Both think they are never wrong.

"Those who don't learn from the past are Condemned To repeat it"