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That would be lovely. But that's still wishful thinking, not an actual plan, and that's the problem. The reality is the primaries are "rigged" by a fuck-ton of money, which you nodded to in your own assessment. We can't have nice things as long as money decides most elections.
But there's also, in my opinion, the greater problem of the tribal right. They can literally invent their own reality, stoke the various "Panics," and lose none of their voters. They will vote as reliable bloc with the unified purpose of defeating their invisible and insidious enemies, be they imagined demons, "woke Leftists," or some other invented monsters.
I call the Left "a herd of cats," because we generally have no unified purpose. People, rightly, ask their leaders, "What have you done for me lately," but that is a privilege we no longer have when right wing Fascism is a year away.
I want good leaders, too, but I want to survive to make them happen, and a year is simply not long enough to build the money and momentum needed in this FPTP system.
Still, I hope you and everyone vote for their favorite person in the primaries, and maybe we'll get that miracle candidate by pure luck.
That's exactly the point I'm getting tired of making. the DNC has been "surviving to make it happen" for longer than I've been a voter. The only presidential candidate that really generated excitement was Obama. even then, that turned out to be surprisingly hollow. Obamacare turned out to be lackluster, even before the GOP got their hands on it and ripped out a lot of it horse trading.
every other finalized candidate has been insanely disappointing. the only time any of them even bother to acknowledge that millennials and gen z even exist is when some staffer points out 'gee your polling really sucks. they don't like you'. then they run something out about something they think we still care about (how much you wanna bet the next one is reducing import costs on avacado toast?) I.E. Biden's silence on abortion. (he's personally apposed to unrestricted access but keeps his mouth shut because he ain't dumb.) (did he even actually try to codify RvW?) or the student loan debt (which so far, isn't so much anything new, but rather, honoring agreements that were- fraudulently- ignored?) (the, uh, student loan debt that took a gone-viral report on that bullshit to get his administration to even look at.)
at a certain point, you have to stop treading water waiting for the ship to come back and start swimming to the island. the ship ain't coming back.