To extend a bit, the DNC controls the machine to run elections. They are friends with the corporate donors and the "left wing" media. Without their support it's very hard to brand yourself as a full blown democrat candidate, which eventually will matter to the voting public.
I think it would be better if the voters decided to gang up on Bernie and compromise with Biden over the others. Or the other candidates didn't run at all. This way they just made a mockery of the election process.
Edit: seriously, think about it. Why are you running at all if you're fine with some other centrist taking over eventually? Just to keep up with the illusion of choice? Stay out of the race and let people see they didn't have a choice in the first place.
And see, that's the problem people complain about. They are doing bad politics by ganging up to the candidate that's gaining support from the people who are looking for someone different. Those people end up in Trump's camp when the Ds can only offer more corporate elites.
Don't forget the part where everyone dropping out endorsed Biden right after. Another funny case was Buttigieg, who was doing well after the first few primaries, even won some, but then just decided to drop out.
I can't really say you're wrong, since we will never know. I had the feeling that Biden was reluctant to do anything because of the incoming elections, whereas Harris might have done something. But alas, we'll never know.
(as a side note, I feel like you'd have gotten away with both parties better here, as the "both sides" is typically just used to equate nazis with regular people and normalize/excuse their behavior - nothing wrong with hating the term)
There's indication Netanyahu wants to seize parts of Gaza into Israel. If it comes to that, there is no way Trump is going to do anything about it (except try to extract maximal gain for himself in terms of favors etc.)
In hindsight, democrats had a horrible strategy letting Biden run the second time. Harris didn't have much time to present a good platform that would have been her own - she was already the VP, so she couldn't go directly against Biden, no one would have bought that.
I think Israel/Palestine gets too much attention. An average voter wanted to hear the candidate say they'll fix immigration and their personal finances. Harris was not terribly vocal on either (although I believe she would have done just fine on both). What Harris did was mainly obtaining celebrity endorsements, while Trump got headlines with his (arguably crazy) policies that appealed to the simpletons.
No one is expecting "world to end". It's just going to get somewhat shittier whereas it could have gotten better or at least stayed the same. Also for some minorities it's going to get a lot shittier.
I typically listen to these after taking my morning LSD, and do get some psychoactive effects. Strangely the effects are completely different if I take amphetamines or light up the afternoon crack pipe before listening.
Seriously tho, I just started to listen to this for the first time ever, and it does work as a pretty effective and non-intrusive noise blocker. Easy to ignore.
Edit: never mind the second point, the surroundings just got quieter at the same time I started to listen.
To extend a bit, the DNC controls the machine to run elections. They are friends with the corporate donors and the "left wing" media. Without their support it's very hard to brand yourself as a full blown democrat candidate, which eventually will matter to the voting public.