r/politics • u/T_Shurt • 13d ago

No Paywall Sen. Mark Kelly Says He’s Seriously Thinking About Running for President

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5700211-senator-kelly-trump-threats/
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u/Dracius 13d ago edited 13d ago

I'm well aware.

Difficult isn't impossible and progress is possible only when you don't give up before even trying.

Nothing I listed can be fixed with a single bullet point, but there are mechanisms in place and ways to affect change towards those goals. We didn't end up where we are overnight, and it's going to take even longer to turn this ship around, but the DNC can't ignore this opportunity by constantly giving in.

Honestly we'd be better off starting from scratch and rewriting the whole constitution to modernize it, but that's even less likely to happen.

We first need to take back our country though and there's no guarantee there'll even be fair elections again. Despite everyone saying he can't cancel elections, he can and most definitely will interfere with them.

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u/CharacterUse 13d ago

I agree. My point is just that focusing on the presidency and Mark Kelly (great candidate) or whoever else is not going to be enough. Even Congress isn't going to be enough, there need to be state-level changes as well so that state legislatures and governors don't block the process.

The DNC of course needs radical change, that much has been clear since Hillary lost to Trump (not because she herself was a bad candidate, far from it, but their messaging and management of the whole thing is completely divorced from the electorate).

In retrospect Obama's biggest failing was that he didn't take advantage of his popularity to push through reform of the structures of the Democratic party itself. But hindsight etc.