Predicted response: “What a silly comparison to make. The two situations could not be more different.”
The difference between you and me as that at least I provide justification for my positions.
This particular line of discussion started with a question I posed (and which you “reinterpreted”) in post 128 which you should have left as rhetorical as I had suggested.
This topic started when you asked me: "Why was the DNC unable to generate better candidates than Biden/Harris?"
So I answered substantively and meaningfully pointing out that the democrats didn't "pick" anything, they already had an incumbent president which historically never gets challenged by either party and for good reasons politically. You broke up my response with two silly and meaningless retorts;
The idea that he was the best candidate in 2020 is the problem - That has nothing to do with anything, we're talking about 2024, not 2020.
Also the idea that the DNC allowed Biden to run - this is ridiculous framing. They didn't "allow" anything, the DNC doesn't decide whether a first term president gets to run again.
And once I pointed this out to you the conversation devolved even further by you asking me how 2020 worked out for 2024, as if one had anything to do with the other, and you pretending that the actions/decisions of the DNC occurred in a vacuum.
I've addressed your questions, but rather than accept that your questions are based on nonsense premises you just keep digging in, then when the entire conversation seems silly you pretend I'm responsible for that.
You don’t wish to discuss political strategy, remember?
I never forgot. I'm responding to your points, as much as I would love to stay focused on the topic we were discussing, this is what you decided to focus on instead. Perhaps if you provided more substantive rebuttals rather than hiding behind caricatures of what you think I would have said this conversation might have been more meaningful.
I’m not sure what you expect with your stubborn, strawman reinterpretations of what I am saying. Yet you insist on posting to me unsolicited anyway.
I post to you just like I post to anyone here who says something I find questionable for the same reason; to see if you have a coherent response.
If you do, then maybe I can learn something.
If not, like when you respond by attacking me as stubborn, a sophist, a propagandist, or by telling me I'm strawmanning you, all without any rational attempt to justify your accusations or the arguments you dropped in favor of them, it just further confirms for me that my position is probably right. If you had a better argument you would have offered it.
Either way, I come out better for it. So respond back or don't, I really don't care.