I have no expertise, but I’m guessing that the world will adjust faster than expected and just start trading more with each-other and leave the US to rot on it’s own.

Are they required to bake cake?

It’s not the job of politicians (or at least it shouldn’t be) to prosecute criminals. However, if you count Merrick Garland as a “Democrat”, he should have moved on Trump immediately after he left power. Instead, he sat on it. That was the first delay, and Judge Canon was the last. Blaming the last delay is obvious, but not the real story.

That’s pretty undeniable, but the important question is, will European liberals continue to be like Pelosi and Schumer? That’s the question that will determine if free Europe has a future. Fascists gonna fascist. It’s the rest of government that makes it possible for fascists to rule.

Since, in all likelihood, we will have to rebuild it from scratch, might as well do it right.

That time was around 50 years ago.

Fetterman was either bought or blackmailed by AIPAC.

Based on what though? Stock market valuations have gotten so insane as to be almost meaningless. It’s a giant ponzi scheme.

But I still have so much to learn from you!

Gosh, I ignorantly thought the primary was where the delegates get chosen (based on a candidate they agree to choose at the convention), not the process of delegates selecting the candidate. I honestly had no idea that there was a published definition that would set me straight. Can you point me in that direction?

Still, I don’t see the relevance since a primary that doesn’t give citizens the opportunity to express support for a candidate can’t tell us anything about support for that candidate. How we define “primary” really doesn’t come into it.

Is this supposed to somehow further the discussion? Are you even trying to be coherent, or are you just grasping at whatever snark you can come up with?

The whole reason we are discussing primaries is that you (incorrectly) believe they indicate electability in the general. How exactly does a primary where the citizens didn’t get to vote for the “winning” candidate do that? Not very well apparently.

Sure buddy, call that a primary if you want. I’m not trying to convince you of anything. Believe what you want, and don’t worry that you’re not respected for it.

Now that was definitely not a primary, not even a checking the box primary. That was a coronation, and the very event I asked if you opposed.

Anyways, it’s absolutely clear to anyone seeing this that you’re just a hack and not a serious person. I knew from the onset that was the best to be achieved.

I believe it was you who was talking about primaries, of which I pointed out that Harris never won any - even the one I “don’t like”. She participated in exactly one primary and had her ass handed to her.

Your argument was that Bernie obviously can’t win a general because he couldn’t win a primary. Do you, or do you not, apply that same logic to Harris, and did you oppose her nomination in 2024? Your argument is ridiculous in either case, but you could at least apply it consistently.

I refuse to acknowledge a primary that I’ll bet 90% of the country didn’t know happened. They checked the box, but it was an irrelevant exercise.

Bernie couldn’t even a primary but there’s a whole delusional section of the population who think he had a chance to be president.

You mean like Harris? Bernie, and everyone else, blew her out of the water in 2020. Maybe the Democratic establishment should have been taking your advice.

The well has also been poisoned against fascism, Russia, “coastal elites”, and rapists/pedophiles. Trump still won. Maybe you’ve lost the plot somewhere.

There is no indication that Trump thought he could “wipe the floor” with Bernie. In fact, it was likely the opposite. The polling certainly didn’t agree, for whatever that’s worth. Even if he did think that, there is no indication that he would have been right. It’s funny how Trump is an evil genius when the Democrats want him to be that, and a raging moron when they want that.

Once Bernie was put up against Trump rhetorically, Bernie’s lead would have grown substantially. Bernie talks to a huge segment of America that most Democrats talk past. Most Democrats don’t even get heard because they have nothing worthwhile to say.

It’s not really all that different in America. We did a kinda informal merger between organized crime, local government, and big capital. Now we’ve merged in the federal government as well.

But, why were they only in control for 2 years? What is it about Democrats that makes them so pathetic that they can’t beat fascists? They have theory, but it’s the same theory that has failed again,band again, and again, and again. If they just lean a little further right they will capture the precious “center” and start winning. It doesn’t work, and they are doing it again.

In an age of record inequality and the mass enshitification of everything by wealthy elites, the unstoppable force isn’t bigotry, it’s populism. A populist shift is inevitable. Right wing populism is fascism, and Republicans have embraced it with gusto. Democrats would rather lose elections to fascists than become a left populist party again. It’s that simple.

The Democrats blame a worldwide rightward shift for their latest loss, and it’s fair enough to see. However, the biggest exception to the trend is just over our southern border. They rejected neoliberalism for Democratic socialism, and their aging male president just successfully handed over power to a younger woman who will continue his work. This is in a country that’s culturally and religiously even more conservative than the US.

Democrats aren’t victims of our eroding culture, they are the ones responsible for the erosion.