Thank you GabeSter

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    2 months ago

    While I don’t think I’ll ever like or fully respect Biden, I seriously respect the fact he stepped down. While I get that he was being pressured to do so, he is still the leader of the Democratic party and could have just said “fuck you”

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      There might be something I am missing because I am not American, but isn’t the leader of leader of Democratic Party the chairperson? Isn’t it Chuck Schumer?

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        There are many leaders in each American political party, the leader of their representatives in the house, the leader of their senators, the leader of the party committee, the leader of the governor’s association, etc. But when a party controls the White House, the president is generally considered the head honcho. Part of that is respect for the office, part of it is practicality (the president has the biggest ability of any one person to message a party’s platform), and part of it is mechanics (every four years at the national convention, the party adopts the platform of their presidential candidate, essentially signing up to work for that person if and when they become president to support enacting that platform. Chuck Schumer is the Majority leader of the Democratic Senate caucus, which makes him very high ranking in the party, but Biden would still “outrank” him, so to speak. Jaime Harrison is the DNC chair, which is largely a fundraising and campaign strategy position vs. a position of power.

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      “Leader” is only a title. Money rules and they told him “no more, now GTFO.” He was forced out. With no support he really had no choice.

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        2 months ago

        Money rules is a shallow and incomplete view of power, and I’m saying that as an anarchocommunist

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          It’s not incomplete. It’s exactly what happened in this situation. You can’t campaign without money.

          If you’re going to refute my “simplistic” explanation you’re going to need more than a simplistic answer that proves nothing. Why am I wrong?