• hedgehogging_the_bed@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Tradition or not, there’s no reason the DNC needed Obama to bless a chair candidate. They chose to throw progress and his contributions away.

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      They chose to throw progress and his contributions away.

      Yes …

      After working against him in the primary and the general, the 2008 DNC choose to not pick a DNC chair who shared Obama’s values after he failed to nominate one.

      What’s more concerning than you thinking anyone wouldn’t be able to guess that’s what would happen, is you seem to be implying it’s the same DNC who finally learned their lesson and elected the most progressive chair in around 50 years…

      Like, if you and I could figure out what the DNC was going to, why couldn’t Obama have?

      The voters got behind Obama to save the party, he got what he wanted and said fuck it.

      And people still kiss his nuts for getting us a more conservative version of the Republican healthcare plan.

      For all our sake you need to start looking past a single letter and start reading some modern history books.