The play gets jucier by the day. The more the Democrats line up to run their own little campaigns, the more Trump strolls in with a plastic straw and slurps up the cash they drop. People are feeling left behind and honestly I cannot keep track of all the Democratic runners. The mains, sure but the little people?
Why yes, giving people as much choice they can get in a country where your actual choices in elections are limited to about as close to an oligarchy as you can get is so, totally awful. I remember watching an episode of The Newsroom, and a character said "our elections are the envy of the world." I read posts like yours, and just remember all of the people I talk to here in Finland and elsewhere who think the exact opposite. The only people taken seriously are those with either the most clout or, most importantly in a plutocracy, the most cash. Your insulting of the fact that many people are trying to make names for themselves in a country where they were half-assedly told "anyone can be president" since birth is more proof of how idiotic the American political system is, and we all know that lack of thought and fact-checking leads to Republican victories. Which leads me to...
Maybe the Democrats can pull a somewhat decent candidate out of a hat (Mashes the X Button furiously) that won't get torn to shreds.
Sometimes, I just want to say "I have no sympathy" in regards to people who voted for Trump and are now seeing either their jobs or their healthcare go away or balloon in price. Then, I remember that the DNC did all they could to stop the Democratic candidate who would have wiped the floor with Trump -- Bernie Sanders. There's nothing that Joe Schmoe could have done to stop that. Bernie was a scandal-free candidate running against a candidate that had scandals coming out of his ears. In the moronic circus that has become American presidential elections, sometimes, that's enough. And don't give me crap about his "socialism" being too scary for people to grasp. The people would have taken that over a man who openly bragged about being a sexual harassment machine, insults minorities and women on the regular, and hasn't an honest bone in his miserable body. The Democrats have ALWAYS had a great candidate. It's just the establishment that won't let him take what he should have had in 2016. Again, because of money.
The key here that I don't think people understand is that you can call President Trump anything and everything under the sun and it will. not. work. He is Teflon Don and his base, and now the center, is beginning to believe it as well. The people leading the charge against him are far too weak.
True, but the other thing Don has in his favor is an uneducated voter base. Statistically, people who vote Republican in the US are less educated, and it shows when you end up with people like Trump as leader of the free world. With less education comes a greater tendency to believe bullshit and blatant lies, whether they're spread by your fellow citizens on Facebook, or a million Russian bots on Twitter. Some people just don't do any sort of critical thinking, and their fervent, embarrassing jingoism combines with that to make a recipe for disaster -- for any society. And his opposition is rather toothless, but then again, anyone looks toothless when you put them up against a crazy old man who tweets seven times a second, has a rabid fanbase with a deep love for guns, and foreign friends in low places who are probably doing shit to help keep him in office. Nothing I could prove, but come on. This guy is corruption incarnate. However, if you can't look at Bernie and at least admire the fight he's STILL putting up for the working class and the marginalized, at his age with his health problems, then you're just hopeless as a human being.
There was no "blue wave" in 2018, and there will be no happy ending for Dems in 2020. The world is trending towards the intolerant right-wing, and until there's another Depression or something major, Americans will continue to vote against their interests and be of no envy to anyone in the developed world.