Barack Obama accuses Republicans of wanting to ‘rig the next election’ in ad supporting Governor Newsom

They also rigged the last election, and every election for several decades.

If all of the Geriatric Old Pedophiles various attempts at election fraud were prosecuted the US wouldn't be a failing fascist state today.

"Purging" voters, "gerrymandering", etc are morally and ethically no different than election fraud; you've already chosen treason against democracy.

He’s wrong if he’s supporting Newsom

AOC is my top choice, but I know everybody has a million reasons why America wouldn't elect her as president.

But, I had this thought the other day, and I know this is nobody's dream team, but possibly the odd couple situation that just might work. Am I crazy for thinking a Pritzker-AOC ticket might actually have a decent chance?

I think USAmericans gotta hit the streets, now, yelling "We won't vote for Gruesome Newsom" just in case we do get a 2028 Election. If we don't destroy his campaign now, he'll be ushered to the front of the Democratic Primary like Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden.

You guys demand democrats stand up to trump and the moment one does, you sit on them and kick them down. You guys deserve every bit of trump

This is a great example of "the left" being manipulated to turn on itself. Newsom ain't great but he is better than anything my former party Republicans put forth. If he makes it through the primaries, please for the love of Satan vote for him in the general. If Republicans win again it's completely over. If I were still one I'd be completely OK with so many worse things happening. Be more scared of what is yet to come than a groveling centrist like Newsom.

As if any candidate you would consider radical would have any chance in hell of winning

Some judges have.

Some people like the ACLU and Marc Elias have.

Etc.

Stopped all illegal things they do? No. But many real people have stopped many real things.

You're just now figuring out that we're in fascism, but telling people to "enjoy" it? lol

The US requires a hard reset imo. The US political discourse is heavily biased towards the right causing the ratchet effect and muddies the pool of water of ideas. Liberals and progressives can't get along because the term socialism in the country has been heavily demonized, that socialists and progressives alike have no choice but to side with the pseudo-left party that is the Democratic Party. The party exploits the lack of choice to be complacent and provide bread crumb policies. Meanwhile, conservatives and the right typically prefer order in spite of differences, so they tend to have stronger voting cohesion to elect the Republican party.

The US requires a hard reset so that the two party system is rid of and political variety will blossom. Actually popular policies will be enacted and not demonized. Progressives could decouple from the Democratic party and finally call themselves socialists without the taboo. And moderate conservatives could dissociate themselves from the far right. However, this hard reset could mean a lead up to a civil war and the only people who would benefit from this are Russia and China.

If someone isn't capable of making the easy call to be against genocide, then they absolutely can't be trusted to be defenders of democracy.

We gotta quit pretending it's about this one issue or that one issue. Over and over again we see that there are politicians committed to fighting for what's right, and there are politicians who aren't. That's it. That's the line. The politicians that sell out to AIPAC are selling out to big tech, to Wall Street, to the military industrial complex, etc.

He's a capitalist. Fascist I don't think so. We have to stop purity testing left candidates, it's a trap. So what if he doesn't have every opinion we have - he's more in touch with the average voter on those issues, frankly. We need to start thinking like we want to win, not like we want to be right.

Ranked choice makes no sense until the majority of states implement it.

I feel alone in my opposition to this proposition. Especially on this platform where most believe the ends justify the means.

You can’t answer voter disenfranchisement with more voter disenfranchisement. District lines should always be determined in a nonpartisan way, full stop.

That having been said we should implement more federal control of voting, at least for federal contests.

I also have much more radically left views in some ways. For example that we should use jury nullification against the emerging American gestapo, have zero tolerance for sieging the fucking capitol building (including shooting those who try), remove corrupt Democratic leadership by prosecution if necessary, etc.

But democracy is democracy. I still have loyalty to enlightenment ideals ffs.

This disenfranchises no one.

Obama is supporting the referendum. That's a good thing.

What would you suggest they do?