They do have better. But they weren't Libtarded enough for the base to get behind them.
The couple decent candidates they had who could have pulled in some centrist votes and maybe beat Trump never gained any traction because they weren't looney enough. Or they weren't Establishment enough. So they got pegged as "Russian Plants" and never had a chance.
So when the dust settled they end up with a senile old man from the Establishment. Good job Dems. Fucking morons...
Both GOP and Dem party at national level pretty much fell apart in the mid-Aughts thru 2016
GOP had no backup to a publicly-denounced GW Bush than stern, grandfatherly McCain and then Romney....And even eight years later they were utterly unprepared to "replace Obama".....If you doubt that, check out their primary field from late 2015 thru Super Tuesday 2016.....Trump, for all his buffoonery was able to step right over that pack of dimwits selling messages that had fallen out of favor a decade or more earlier
Meanwhile in about the same time span, Dems elected a man in 2008 who was 47 years old and sufficiently respected by the electorate at large to win again in 2012
BUT pretty much the day after his election in Nov 2008 the freaking DNC pretty much annointed 61 year old (at the time....69 yrs old in 2016) HillaryC as "the heir apparent" not acknowledging that the USA was not only fed up with Bushes, we also had little interest in any more years of Clintons. The stature and policies most promoted by WJ Clinton mostly served us well in the 1990s but 20 years later?
And now we (my fellow Dems) are on the precipice of running an almost 80 year old man who is steeped not just in "the 1990s" he is more about the 1980s....an era when over 50% of current voting electorate was age 17 or younger
To be countered by the GOP rolling out a reality TV character, faux billionaire, six time bankruptcy (multi-billions) plodder who is most aptly described in my signature block below
SEEMINGLY rough times for all concerned
But good news is that we (Americans) WILL survive long past the political lives of either Joe Biden or Don Trump...and we will absolutely come out of this current social drama related to COVID-19
Those men and this pandemic are completely Temporary parts of our world.....IF YOU choose to view them with sufficiently wide perspective
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off to screw on a fresh oil cart
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