but aaron you don't understaaaaand, they RIG it, they rig it by having such high name recognition among their constituents and long-standing relationships with the community that have led to them being consistently re-elected for decades! rigged!
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There's definitely exceptions when it's someone so old they are very clearly having mental decline. Incumbency is REAL strong. But overall I think the number is smaller than most people think.
aug 29, 2025, 9:21 pm • 2 0 • view
“The system is rigged when I, a 24 year old “organizer” can’t be elected Senator.”
aug 29, 2025, 4:14 pm • 50 7 • view
"it would make a really cool and inspiring plot for a netflix original series if I were to get elected senator at 24 after doing nothing to earn it, therefore it must come true in reality!"
aug 29, 2025, 4:22 pm • 30 7 • view
Or “If I conveniently ignore the lack of entry-level positions or apprentice/mentorships for random nobodies, I can demand a high level position and leave that all behind! Structural change is for losers”
aug 30, 2025, 9:33 am • 8 0 • view
“Surely it’s just a given that having survived something very bad as a teenager gives me an inviolable right to be in charge of everything.”
aug 30, 2025, 9:56 am • 5 1 • view
Woo boy, isn’t this spot-on.
aug 30, 2025, 1:54 pm • 4 0 • view
What if I'm the Onion guy's gf and can't be bothered to live in the community? Social media cred means something, right?
aug 30, 2025, 1:43 pm • 2 0 • view
IT’S THE ONLY THING THAT HAS ANY MEANING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
aug 30, 2025, 1:50 pm • 2 0 • view
I mean, the factors you described were the factors we looked at in college as causes of authoritarianism if there are no term limits Democracy is supposed to result in people’s ideas being represented, not “who’s your favorite person”; structural advantages for candidates is distortionary
aug 30, 2025, 1:51 pm • 0 0 • view
The structural advantages that benefit the incumbent only compound over time We’ve seen across Latin America that a lack of term limits in the executive branch has historically led to relatively quick consolidation of political power, as popular candidates become entrenched
aug 30, 2025, 1:55 pm • 0 0 • view
But burb I just moved to the neighboring district, you can't expect me to start fostering relationships in the one I'm running in. Thats unfair.
aug 29, 2025, 4:14 pm • 34 3 • view
true, I hadn't considered that you might want it really really bad
aug 29, 2025, 4:16 pm • 25 2 • view
some people are just stupid but I think a lot of them are hoping, ironically, to if not rig, game the system in a deep blue district if a popular long time Congresswoman retires 12 people jump into the primary and they're hoping to with with 20% of the vote and yell "no backsies!"
aug 29, 2025, 4:16 pm • 23 1 • view
Exactly. Usually the crowd wailing about how they can't get elected are grifters who think this D+40 district will elect anything with a D, so it's the perfect opportunity to smuggle myself in without any effort.
aug 29, 2025, 4:23 pm • 19 2 • view
They also do a lot of complaining about how the 75 year old incumbent they despise doesn't *really* reflect the views of the constituents, who would much rather have... (checks notes)... a DSA member who believes real communism has never been tried
aug 29, 2025, 4:27 pm • 20 2 • view
It's so funny that people say this stuff to considering when you actually look at people's approval of just their representative, it's sky high. But they always try to hide it by pointing to people being unhappy with Congress as a whole or the party as a whole. It's just manipulator nonsense.
aug 29, 2025, 4:39 pm • 12 0 • view