Trump buddy with dictators that want to destroy USA

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Greyparrot doesnt believe in democracy and discussions.

In fact, his entire propaganda here is focused on "no-discussion" and constant promotion of civil war which he probably wouldnt even fight in if it started.
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The most basic and foundational principal of our democracy is that everyone has the right to advocate for what they believe.

I seriously doubt the founding fathers would allow democracy to be sold to the highest bidder as it is today. Most legislation today is passed with little to no support from the public and full support from the lobbies. The rest is left to propaganda spin and name blaming to cover up the failure of democracy. It's a democracy of oligarchs, and the people are getting restless with this system.
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Most legislation today is passed with little to no support from the public
Ah, you want direct democracy instead of representative democracy.

Never happy you are!
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Most legislation today is passed with little to no support from the public and full support from the lobbies.
Correct, so put the blame where it belongs; on the people passing it and the people voting for them anyway.
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Most legislation today is passed with little to no support from the public
Ah, you want direct democracy instead of representative democracy.
Having any democracy at all would be an improvement at this point.


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and the people voting for them anyway.
Which is easy when you are the only one on the ballot. Like this election.
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If people really wanted a Biden alternative there would be one. The only thing stopping a challenger from getting themselves on the primary ballots and overtaking him is the fact that there is no challenger with enough support to do that.

Anyone can say "I don't like that guy". That's easy. Finding someone who everyone will like better is much harder.

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They didn't even bother putting Biden as a choice for NH today. It's like the DNC is tired of pretending there's actually a choice in today's version of democracy..
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In 2015 the republican party wanted nothing to do with Donald Trump but he got the nomination anyway. The people decided it, so the party had no choice. That's how it works.
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Did the RNC not allow a primary in 2015 like the DNC isn't allowing right now? That's news.

Maybe the DNC learned in 2015 that the people cannot be trusted with democracy because the public just might select a left wing version of Trump....
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They didn't even bother putting Biden as a choice for NH today. It's like the DNC is tired of pretending there's actually a choice in today's version of democracy..
Again, if the people really did want an alternative there would be one. No one else has that support. That is why Biden will cruise to the nomination.
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Did the RNC not allow a primary like the DNC isn't allowing right now? That's news.
They didn't in 2020.

Incumbent presidents never face a real challenge. It's been that way in both parties for decades if not centuries. Everyone understands the power of incumbency, political die hards are reluctant to say the least about putting forward someone who is new and untested.
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 No one else has that support. 
I guess we will never know since a standard primary for registered Democrats is forbidden this election cycle. You can't even support Biden with a vote unless you write him in.
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They didn't in 2020
Yeah, had to fact check that one as false, since I wasn't sure if you were serious about that claim. There were names on ballots and people voted.
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Again, this is how every primary has worked for decades if not over a century. We don't just put names on the ballot to see how they'll do, you have to demonstrate a base level of support to qualify. No one else does.

Nothing is stopping any other candidate from running third party or as an independent. The fact that the RNC and DNC candidates are the only ones with realistic chance is again, a product of our democracy. Take that issue up with the voters.
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Yeah, had to fact check that one as false, since I wasn't sure if you were serious about that claim. There were names on ballots and people voted
Just as there are here

Here's what I was thinking of that you didn't see on the Democratic side:

Either way this is kind of irrelevant. Political parties are free to operate however they wish, they are not the government. We are the ones who keep giving them our power by voting for their candidates. That's called democracy regardless of how unpleasant we think it is.