I’m sick of posts complaining about Biden’s debate performance, or his age, or his response to Gaza. Comments saying he should step aside or “we coulda had Bernie.”

Shut the fuck up.

Biden is the nominee. He is the person Americans need to vote for to prevent another Trump presidency. Simple as that. There is no other option. The DNC isn’t going to change their nominee in July of an election year. You’re an idiot if you genuinely think otherwise.

It’s fine to criticize a president. Even one you support. But we are four months from the next election and all posts and comments attacking Biden right now are fuel for Trump. I don’t care if you’re a Russian troll or a well-meaning progressive. Criticizing Biden right now helps Trump win. Full stop.

Get your heads out of your asses and realize what is at stake.

  • terraborra@lemmy.nzEnglish
    336·
    5 months ago

    Not American, but am anti-fascist so anyone is better than Trump. However it’s wrong to say that there is no other option.

    The New Zealand Labour Party (centrist-left) won the election in 2017 by switching leaders much closer to election day:

    On 1 August 2017, just seven weeks before the 2017 general election, Ardern assumed the position of leader of the Labour Party, and consequently became leader of the Opposition, following the resignation of Andrew Little. Little stood down due to the party’s historically low polling.

    Jacinda Ardern Wiki

    • voracitude@lemmy.worldEnglish
      127·
      5 months ago

      And if America had ranked-choice voting you might be right that there’s another option; unfortunately though things don’t work like that here so there is indeed no other option.

      • terraborra@lemmy.nzEnglish
        141·
        5 months ago

        We don’t have ranked choice voting either and don’t directly vote for prime minister. It’s a proportional system. If anything this should reduce the effect that a leader has on the popularity of the party compared with first past the post jurisdictions.

        Given that the US does directly vote for President, personality and popularity have much more weight, and therefore a more popular candidate could turn it around. How likely that is I’m not sure, as I don’t know a huge amount about the alternatives other than AOC and Sanders, but Jacinda did show that it’s possible.

        • Zachariah@lemmy.worldEnglish
          102·
          5 months ago

          Given that the US does directly vote for President…

          The U.S. president is not directly elected.

          • terraborra@lemmy.nzEnglish
            32·
            5 months ago

            That’s splitting hairs. Notice I said “vote” rather than “elect”. I’m well aware of how the electoral college functions and that you can lose the “popular vote” but still become president (e.g. Bush Jnr and Trump).

            The fact remains that on ballot you directly cast a vote for the president.

            • Optional@lemmy.worldEnglish
              41·
              5 months ago

              Hey, you got any openings there in the New Zealand? Heck - Old Zealand, whatever, something with less heavily armed, grossly unhealthy authoritarian fetishists? Looking to start, say, in about five months?

              • terraborra@lemmy.nzEnglish
                2·
                5 months ago

                Unfortunately we’re no socialist utopia and we recently swung to the right in the election last year. The deputy prime minister is a noted xenophobe, pay-to-play corruption is on the rise, and most of the social policies of the last 6 years are being rolled back and then some.

                These changes aren’t necessarily popular, lots of people voted against the incumbents rather than for the new government, but the next election is 2 years away and the electorate has a short memory.

                It’s also worth knowing that much of our international reputation is a smokescreen. We’re not clean and green despite what our tourism marketing says. Almost every party in our parliament subscribes to neoliberalism to varying degrees and thinks deregulation will solve our productivity problems. We have one of the worst housing markets on the planet which is more like a Ponzi scheme thanks to a lack of capital gains tax and incentives for speculators. Finally the cost of living is extreme due to a lack of competition in the food, banking, petrol, electricity and water markets.

                We have been falling in the OECD rankings on most metrics since the late 80s when we embraced Thatcherism/Reaganomics.

        • mommykink@lemmy.worldEnglish
          14·
          5 months ago

          B-but terminally online Redditors Lemmy users (Lemmists?) tell me that every single country in the world has a perfectly functioning election system and that the US is the only one with problems??

          • dylanmorgan@slrpnk.netEnglish
            2·
            5 months ago

            The preferred demonym (preferred by me) is “Lemmunists,” or “Lemmunistas” if you’re nasty.

      • terraborra@lemmy.nzEnglish
        93·
        5 months ago

        The premise of OP’s post is that it is not possible to win an election by changing the party’s candidate close to an election. I provided evidence that it is possible.

        Whether the DNC has someone capable of doing so is another question.