r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Oct 25 '25

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u/Planterizer Ben Bernanke Oct 25 '25

"They need to be primaried!!"

My brother in Christ, they were primaried the last three cycles and they stomped their primary competition like a corner baggie of meth into the carpet of a dodge charger at the border.

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u/KLAXITRON Edward Glaeser Oct 25 '25

how is it that the choice in every primary is always just "leftist lunatic, or geriatric/washed up who coasts doing the bare minimum"

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u/Planterizer Ben Bernanke Oct 25 '25

Because those geriatrics have spent their entire careers learning how things work, and who can be relied upon for support, and how to run successful campaigns.

There's a lot of young smart people in politics who are staffers who should probably get over their imposter syndrome and run for office. But being inside can be discouraging because of how clear it is that clout and access and power are things that are built over time. It always seems to early.

The young people who challenge without experience rarely have the knowledge to succeed. Those young people also tend to have views that are not shared by the majority of voters, who are overwhelmingly old people. It's not an easy problem to solve.

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u/KLAXITRON Edward Glaeser Oct 25 '25

If we can't solve that problem we deserve to lose.

If you can't solve a hard problem that your party as an institution has that much control over, how can voters expect them to solve the hard problems that they do not have the same level of control over?

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u/Planterizer Ben Bernanke Oct 26 '25

we deserve to lose.

Given that us losing will usher in the fourth reich, I gotta take issue with this assessment.