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Butterpaderp@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

I see how many people didnt vote for him. How is the media lying about that?

You could argue that media was against him, but the truth is that people in america just aren’t that progressive. I mean hell, look at how terrible the dem turnout was this year compared to last election.

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eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Refuses to cover his campaign ads

Refuses to cover his victories

Internally leaving him off of nationwide polls when data allow him to be counted (CNN infamous called Sanders “Other Candidate” instead of showing him, but counted Andrew Yang)

Slander about him being sexist when he encouraged women to run for office and only started going in 2016 when he asked Warren to run and she declined.

Mass media campaign about calling the Jewish senator antisemitic for not being “pro killing children”

So when the media is against you, people see it as a bad candidate, and don’t vote. Even when he was never a monster, but Trump got more air time saying “Mexicans being rape”.
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pjwestin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Democrats aren’t progressives. Maybe if they were, they wouldn’t lose all the time.

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- GiveMemes@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  “If they just had my opinions (that are unpopular to the US population at large), they would win.”
  
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  - pjwestin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Yeah, except progressive positions are broadly popular. Raising billionaire and corporate taxes? Popular. Single-payer healthcare? Popular. Universal Basic Income?Popular. Bernie Sanders? Still pretty fucking popular!
    
    Meanwhile, how popular was the flaccid centrist platform the Democrats put up this year? Is Kamala gonna be president? Are they gonna keep the Senate? Is the house looking good? No? Then maybe it’s time for all the popularity experts in the Democratic party to shut the fuck up.
    
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    eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Data? In an argument with a data denial weirdo? Good luck on convincing this weirdo.
    
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    GiveMemes@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    And yet the party that runs exactly contrary to all those issues just won the election… Polls are great and all, but polling the general population and polling likely voters and exit polls are all very different things lmfao.
    
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