Abigail Disney, the granddaughter to Roy O. Disney, who cofounded The Walt Disney Company, told CNBC on Thursday that she plans to withhold donations to the party she has funded for years until Biden drops out. The president has said he has no plans to withdraw from the race, despite calls for him to do so.

“I intend to stop any contributions to the party unless and until they replace Biden at the top of the ticket. This is realism, not disrespect. Biden is a good man and has served his country admirably, but the stakes are far too high,” Abigail Disney said in a lengthy statement to CNBC. “If Biden does not step down the Democrats will lose. Of that I am absolutely certain. The consequences for the loss will be genuinely dire.”

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    4 months ago

    being the only choices is a symptom of democracy is so foreign to you

    Given that the overarching question here is “is biden really the best candidate?”, and that ranked choice voting would immediately fix that issue while retaining democracy, yes i feel fairly confident that the current situation is one brought on by an imperfect implementation of democracy.

    But again, this is just more bad faith whining so goodbye.

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      4 months ago

      Given that the overarching question here is “is biden really the best candidate?”,

      Yes, he is the best candidate currently running.

      and that ranked choice voting would immediately fix that issue

      No, ranked choice would give us an option to express a stronger preference for other candidates. It would not fix the fact that Biden and Trump hold near-majority support in this election cycle and one of them will be the winner of the election, making every voter with any sense pick one of them to support over the other.

      while retaining democracy, yes i feel fairly confident that the current situation is one brought on by an imperfect implementation of democracy.

      Okay, cool, if ranked choice voting was implemented, who would have the support of the electorate who isn’t Biden or Trump?