”This helps take away votes from Joe Biden,” the activist told one person at the rally, according to a video posted to X (formerly Twitter) by a Washington Post reporter. “We’re helping the Trump team who’s trying to get him on there,” added a woman by his side.

  • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world
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    23 days ago

    Good question. I think a large part of the problem is there’s not a lot of progressive candidates getting out of the state level. Without party endorsements, it’s hard to get to any kind of national recognition sufficient to be a candidate.

    and lets be honest, the DNC has actively been squashing any attempt at developing candidates who aren’t kowtowing to the status quo. even just being not-a-boomer is enough to make it hard.

    Several of the people I’ve personally liked and thought were progressives turned out to be assholes.

    I like Bernie. Warren. I can name a few others, but really don’t know enough about them to say if I like them or not. and that’s a large part of the problem. Even if we ignore the progressive label… outside of a small handful of people, nobody really has the name recognition. and at this point I assume that’s intentional to keep candidates like Biden and Hilary… relevant.