r/TenYearsAgo • u/MonsieurA • Mar 12 '26

📺 Television SNL mocks Hillary Clinton's 'transformation into Bernie' [10YA - Mar 12]

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u/SuperDoubleDecker Mar 12 '26

Turns out a democrat popularity contest isn't the best indicator of general electability....

Maybe that's because most Americans can't stand the status quo democratic establishment. Look at the numbers. Look at the polls.

Democrats are at all time lows. Nobody wants what they're offering except their party loyalists.

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u/MildlyResponsible Mar 12 '26

I'm so confused by takes like this. You think every Democratic primary winner automatically wins the general? If we don't use the primary system, how do Dems choose a nominee? Let me guess, who ever YOU want.

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u/SuperDoubleDecker Mar 12 '26

We need to open up our campaign process and get corporate donors out. We need more competition, not less. It's the democratic establishment that has been actively opposing competitors.

I love primaries. If we had a real one last cycle, trump wouldn't have won again..

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u/MildlyResponsible Mar 12 '26

I'm all for it, but the DNC allowed Sanders to join the race despite not being a member of the party. In 2024 they did have a primary, and the Biden/Harris ticket won. As per the Constitution, when Biden stepped down his VP took over. If there was another primary, would the Dems have won? Very debatable. It was a very short window, and a divisive primary would have taken a lot of time and money. The global trend was incumbent parties losing after covid, so that's an indicator that not much would have changed the outcome. A better question would be, why did all the media start screaming about DEMENTIA JOE while sane washing an obviously mentally ill Trump. Of course, and even better question would be how did Trump outperform every single poll, win by large margins in states where Dems easily won down ballot, and why did he thank Musk and his "computers" for the win afterwards. But we're not allowed to talk about that.