Kid, you should try reading things by actual, paid journalists, who aren’t just contributors to free online “news” sources.
Or good books.
Kid, you should try reading things by actual, paid journalists, who aren’t just contributors to free online “news” sources.
Or good books.
Lol, I keep joking to people that my side is dumb enough to believe the two are equal on that and every day one of y’all proves me right.
Vote Harris… Wait. Damnit.
I think you meant to respond to op, but I pretty much agree with what you wrote.
We can’t even get more progressives than moderates/centrists to the Democratic primaries so I’d be pretty surprised to see even half that show up for something radical.
It’s the difference between being in a burning building and being the same burning building while people throwing Molotov cocktails through the windows.
Both are dangerous but one is worse.
Ech, tonight sucks but please don’t make lemmy suck too.
Talk and gasp befriend those with whom we disagree.
The fact that not one comment thus far has grappled with “we might just not be as popular as the republicans” is kind of telling.
We either write of slightly more than half the country or figure out a way to win them over.
(Admittedly, there’s a slim chance where we rack up very specific sets of votes but I haven’t seen anything to make that a reasonable bet.)
Well, I for one, make it rule to always trust someone whose sources are “trust me bro” !
Why do you think it’s moderation?
And why on Earth would you think Lemmy doesn’t skew young?
I don’t think it’s moderation. I think people are genuinely less capable these days at processing news with which they disagree.
That and I think Lemmy skews young, I bet a lot of folks here don’t know anyone socially who would vote for trump.
Stop thinking with your feelings and how you wish things were Lemmy.
That’s kinda how things work here/online. Did you not notice how every poll with trump up was downvoted to oblivion?
Yeah, I realize it won’t work for most who haven’t seen the show but hoe many people like that could there be? Ten?
CBC/BBC/Al Jazeera, checking the Economist for my minute by minute bellweather county level fun.
Appreciate the Pew link! I’d note thought that it talks about the general election, not primaries.
If the progressives don’t outnumber the moderates and centrists even within the Democratic party, then that seems a pretty good indication that American politics is roughly in line with American attitudes, which would mean democracy is working as it should.
Here’s the thing, Sanders got 43% of the primary vote iirc and Clinton got 55. This happened, despite the middle age and elderly voters showing up in significantly larger numbers than the young, presumably progressive ones. If the young voters had shown up and their vote patterns held, Sanders would likely have had a comfortable win.
What on Earth are you trying to say?
Harris and Biden were on the ballot in 2020, as were more progressive candidates. As usual, more moderates and centrists did the boring grown up work of showing up and voting in the primaries and thus, Biden won.
She was on the ballot in the primaries, which is entirely the point of the post.
Both claims are debatable.
Do you think things won’t get worse under trump? Or do you think some 50,000 dead a year is the worst Israel can do?