How we got here... Choice Paralysis

[liberalmediaaddict]

In the beginning we had 20 candidates and now we have around a half dozen left that are unable to unite the Democratic Party to take on Trump. And everyone except Bernie supporters are panicking.

This is s result of having too many choices and too few debates. In hindsight the DNC should have split the debates into 3 or 4 groups to give lesser known candidates a chance to speak. And dropped the stupid polling threshold since polls aren't reliable anymore.

It shocked me how many interesting and diverse candidates had to drop out before a single vote was cast. And how in the days before Iowa and New Hampshire people were still undecided about who to vote for.

Basically we as a party had choice paralysis. And Democrats who don't want Bernie to win still have it. That's why the so called "moderate" vote kerps getting split between Buttigieg, Biden, Warren and Klobuchar.
We were so concerned with electability and finding the perfect candidate to beat Trump we were overly cautious.

Choice Paralysis:
1. When we have more choices, we make worse decisions.

2. Having too much choice causes paralysis so we cannot make any decision at all.

3. More importantly, we also spend time thinking about the choices we didn’t pick, instead of being happy with the one we did choose. The more choices, the more we feel we ‘missed out on.

At this point we have to unite as a party to defeat Trump. If the nominee is Bernie so be it. However he definitely needs to reach out to the supporters of the other candidates and drop the whole "Democratic Establishment" line of attack. Trump and Putin ate trying to divide us like in 2016. We're all responsible for not allowing that to happen again.

[Frasier Balzov]

1. Super Tuesday will help.

Things become clearer and coalescence kicks into effect.

[jimfields33]

10. Bernie will do very well on Super Tuesday

Winning Texas and California should stop the negativity I hope.

[TCJ70]

2. Too few debates?

There have been 9 so far with a 10th tomorrow.

[liberalmediaaddict]

9. Meant too many candidates on each debate stage

10 to 12 is too many. Plus all the questions were directed at the frontrunners
They should have done groups of 5 over 2 nights. Given each 90 minutes.

Even the debate tomorrow night is going to be too crowded. Especially at this point in the race.

[billpolonsky]

3. Bernie supporters are panicking?

Bernie supporters are well organized.

[brooklynite]

5. I understand Cuba avoids choice paralysis by limiting the choice to one.....

[liberalmediaaddict]

8. That's what I said

"And everyone except Bernie supporters are panicking."

[Baclava]

4. How we got here - Joe stumbled coming out of the gate, nobody expected any Bernie landslides

[bucolic_frolic]

6. Choice Paralysis - So Dems 2020 is parallel to GOP 2016

Where the worst candidate wins?

[rzemanfl]

7. I have got to wash socks. BBL. n/t

[Jirel]

11. This is how it's supposed to work.

We have multiple good candidates. People do not have to “unite” behind any one of them until the sorting is done. Literally, this SHOULD be happening right now.

The nervous nellies can’t handle the suspense. That doesn’t mean there is anything amiss with the entire nominating process not shaking itself out in the first 3 states.