2y ago

Marianne Williamson, RFK Jr and Cornel West; let's discuss.

These candidates are really the only challengers to Biden in the primaries. All of their campaigns are extremely long shots (but not impossible in my opinion- if we decided we liked them more than Biden they could win). Let's all have a civilized discussion/debate over them. Let's try to not focus too heavy on their perceived inability to beat Biden but focus on them as actual candidates.

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RFK is a conspiracy theorist and has more ideologically in common with Republicans than Democrats.
- has more ideologically in common with Republicans than Democrats
  not only that but his favorability with Republicans is substantially higher than that of Democrats. guy's probably running in the wrong primary and if he didn't have a handful of "too liberal" takes he'd be getting a VP call come 2024 convention season
  
  He's probably financially backed by Republicans to help split the democratic vote.
MW: Is an anti-vaxxer woo-woo person, so no thanks. CW: Nothing to wrong with him in a vaccum but all he's going to do is take away votes from Biden. RFK JR: conspiracy theorist and generally a POS, hard pass
There's a reason why these crackpots have no chance at winning
Let's get some atheists in the mix. So sick of having Christians running the country.
- They're not all christians, it's just a necessary inconvenience necessary to get elected in this country.
CW is the only one that's remotely interesting to me, but I don't think any of them are particularly good for anything except being a spoiler and getting Donald Trump elected.
- CW is also sorta kinda but not totally antivax
  Edit: oh you said MW…
  
  Just read this about CW
  Westerners safe from bombardment like long-shot third-party presidential candidate Cornel West continue to accommodate Russia. In a July 13 interview with CNN's Kaitlan Collins, West called Russia's invasion "criminal" but insisted it was "provoked by the expansion of NATO" and is a "proxy war between the American Empire and the Russian Federation," adding Neville Chamberlain-esque icing on the appeasement cake by proposing Ukrainian territorial concessions to Russia.
  So that's enough for me to lose any interest I had in him.
  Source
I just read cw's Wikipedia page and boy is it a doozy. He's really outspoken and rude. The article paints him as a 0 or 100 type of person who either hates or loves you. The is no in-between. I don't think he'd make a good president but I think he has the right politics overall. One really odd belief cw holds is that Marxism and Christianity are incompatible with each other. I don't understand how that can be but I didn't look further into it.
How is MW? She seems like she'd be generally the same political alignment as cw but maybe not so ready to throw insults at people. At least how you described her. Both cw and her endorsed Bernie.
This really encouraged me to vote in the primaries and I'm going to see what it takes to do so in my state..
Just weak attempts at putting together a manchin or sinema-esque “dem” ally for the presidency to try and split votes
Fuckin yawn
- Why 2028? Why not ‘24? Great points though.

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