britechguy
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And this is different than it's ever been since primaries have been the choice mechanism how, exactly?
I'm not arguing with you about the statement, it's 100% true, but if you (the generic you) cannot be bothered to vote at every opportunity you have, it's really not legitimate to complain about the resulting choice from those that do. [Hillary also won, soundly, in the 2016 primaries. I liked Bernie, both times, but he did not come out on top in the primaries.]
In any process of selecting candidates for an election the voters get to choose from among the candidates they have, not that they'd like to have. No one has ever put it better than this commenter on the New York Times:
Voting isn't marriage, it's public transport. You are not waiting for "the one" who is absolutely perfect. You are getting on the bus. And if there isn't one going exactly to your destination, you don't stay home and sulk. You take the one going closest to where you want to be.
~ Commenter Mrsmarv, on New York Times article, Bernie or Biden. Period., March 2, 2020.
There have been many occasions where "closest to where I want to be" is very far from where I want to be. There has never been an election where there wasn't a clear choice as to which, in the collection of suboptimal choices, was "closest to where I want to be." And when that choice involves holding my nose while casting my vote, well, that's what adults do unless you wish to have no influence whatsoever, which is what write-ins and other protest votes amount to giving you.
