• throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works
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    22 hours ago

    Consecutive terms should be eliminated.

    If there is no “incumbency advantage”, there will be no excuses to “we cant hold a primary because we ‘lose the advantage’” bullshit.

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      22 hours ago

      There’s really no excuse here, incumbency or no.

      They knew Clinton was unpopular because she first lost to Obama and they had to rig her primary against Sanders. Harris couldn’t even beat out Tulsi Gabbard in a primary and the president demanding that she be crowned the candidate has evident dementia.

      Say what you will about Donald (and I don’t like him either), but he wasn’t so weak that he had to forego the primaries)

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        22 hours ago

        Say what you will about Donald (and I don’t like him either), but he wasn’t so weak that he had to forego the primaries)

        That’s because their base is already in the cult and bought into proaganda, they already knew the conclusion, the primary is a de facto sham election to show off trumps popularity.

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      21 hours ago

      Just make primaries mandatory. Banning consecutive terms is not going to accomplish anything worthwhile. The good things it does are more than matched by the bad, plus it’s a literal limit being placed on democratic choice.

      Americans are still searching for simple answers in the form of rules. 'If only we had this rule, then Trump wouldn’t have happened. '. Trump or someone like him was the inevitable result of festering sicknesses in American culture. There are no rules you can come up with that can protect you from that without addressing root causes.

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        21 hours ago

        Just make primaries mandatory.

        Democrats did technically held a primary (abeit it’s de facto for show only) in 2024, so that legal requirement wouldn’t have mattered.