Comment on How Kamala Harris Took Command of the Democratic Party in 48 Hours

• elbucho@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Nothing about primaries is part of the constitution. You realize that, right? This entire time, the primary process was just bylaws of two different organizations. And this time, they weren’t able to complete the normal process because the candidate that everybody backed decided to bow out at the last minute. So what is it, exactly, that you’re mad about? Are you mad because you were operating under the illusion that this was somehow a democratic process enshrined in the constitution? Are you mad because the 81-year-old whose ego convinced him that he could totally win again was finally talked out of it? What the hell are you even bitching about?

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  • Anticorp@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I’m aware that primaries aren’t in the constitution, which is why I said “this is how it has been done for decades”, and not “this is how it’s been done for 248 years”. I feel like I’ve explained what my issue is. It’s obvious that you guys are totally cool just taking whomever the DNC gives you, even if she’s a former prosecutor who locked up tons of people for marijuana cases and voted against legalization, so totes, I guess. ACAB unless that cop is Harris.

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    • elbucho@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      which is why I said “this is how it has been done for decades”

      Ok? At what point in the last several decades has a candidate won the primary, then bowed out right before being confirmed by delegates? What time in history can you point to to show that the DNC is doing something nefarious here by voting for the person the winning candidate endorsed before backing out?

      This is an unprecedented event. The fact that you think it should have gone some other way is completely irrelevant.

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