While I agree with the sentiment, the coalescing around Harris is far more about her being the only real obvious choice and far less about it being “her turn”
Yeah. I just wish things all happened a few months ago so we could have had a contested convention. We have lots of choices - just a lack of circumstances to let us do it.
If we had ranked choice primaries all these problems would all just go away.
What needed to happen was a primary process. This whole situation has robbed the people of any choice. I’m going to vote for Harris, but I’m deeply unsettled by what’s happened. I think the convention should feature a pledge to hold an open primary in 2028 even if we have an incumbent.
We did not have a real primary, incumbency primaries are always just going through the motions without real challenge. Had Biden chosen to do the right thing and not seek reelection in the first place, we would have had a real primary. As it stands, we will have the first nominee since 1968 to win the nomination without a single vote from the people.
That year was such a disaster that it resulted in the creation of the current system of national binding primaries. The fact that our system is so fragile that the voice of the people can still so easily be skipped is extremely problematic. This situation demands reform or else the Democrats can take advantage of this anytime they want to avoid hearing what the people want.
I get coalescing at this stage. But I hate the ‘its their turn’ mentality that got us the Joe 24 campaign in the first place.
While I agree with the sentiment, the coalescing around Harris is far more about her being the only real obvious choice and far less about it being “her turn”
Yeah. I just wish things all happened a few months ago so we could have had a contested convention. We have lots of choices - just a lack of circumstances to let us do it.
If we had ranked choice primaries all these problems would all just go away.
This is real; life, pure and true. Nothing ever works out perfectly and when it does there’s always something… Something that makes it tainted.
What needed to happen was a primary process. This whole situation has robbed the people of any choice. I’m going to vote for Harris, but I’m deeply unsettled by what’s happened. I think the convention should feature a pledge to hold an open primary in 2028 even if we have an incumbent.
We did have an open primary. But all the candidates decided not to run.
Its probably an issue with magazines and party officials tamping down the competition
We did not have a real primary, incumbency primaries are always just going through the motions without real challenge. Had Biden chosen to do the right thing and not seek reelection in the first place, we would have had a real primary. As it stands, we will have the first nominee since 1968 to win the nomination without a single vote from the people.
That year was such a disaster that it resulted in the creation of the current system of national binding primaries. The fact that our system is so fragile that the voice of the people can still so easily be skipped is extremely problematic. This situation demands reform or else the Democrats can take advantage of this anytime they want to avoid hearing what the people want.
Why?