• pjwestin@lemmy.world
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    10 hours ago

    Democrats aren’t progressives. Maybe if they were, they wouldn’t lose all the time.

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      8 hours ago

      “If they just had my opinions (that are unpopular to the US population at large), they would win.”

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        7 hours 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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          27 minutes 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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            4 hours 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.