Comment on US Democracy

• GiveMemes@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨week⁩ ago

      Data? In an argument with a data denial weirdo? Good luck on convincing this weirdo.

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      • pjwestin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        I’m just so fucking tired of hearing why the policies that I and most of the country want are unpopular from people who can’t win a fucking election.

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    • GiveMemes@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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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      • pjwestin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        The party that ran a populist message won. When their economic situation is dire, people turn to populist leaders. When there’s no populist movement in the left (usually some for of socialist/labor movement) they turn to right-wing populism (fascism). Democrats spent the last 12 years stamping out any kind of pro-labor movement that started in their party in favor of neoliberal centrism, and now their losing to right-wing facism.

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