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Muscles posted...

Trump is getting reelected whether he says more dumb stuff or not, people forget how loyal his base is, it also doesn't help that the dems brought out another senile racist that can't keep is mouth shut

I mean, really, who does biden appeal to? The "progressives"? Nope, they wanted bernie. The independent voters? Hell no, they picked a dude that doesn't appeal to anyone but the regular dnc voters, which they would have gotten either way seeing as they blindly hate that idiot in office

I mean, they didn't "pick him", the Democrat voters did in the primaries.
Diving a bit deeper, Biden won because he had crushingly overwhelming support from black voters. And they make up a large enough portion of the Democrat voter base that if they go 80%+ for one guy, it's pretty much impossible to beat him.
It's a shame that the last several primaries, they've voted as a monolithic entity, because it pretty much kills the democratic process by letting the eventual winner pander to one specific group (really not much different from how Trump relies heavily on super massive majorities of evangelicals and "poorly educated" (his words) white people to let him safely ignore the rest of his party's voters and the majority of the country's population overall).
The primary system is fucking broken. It's not built to pick someone with appeal to a large swath of people. Hell, they outright shut out independents from voting in them in a lot of states. We've reached a point where pretty much every presidential election, our choices are going to be between whoever a very specific racial or special interest group in each party decides to nominate.