If we can't be bothered to vote in the primaries, wjy would anyone believe us that a progressive candidate would somehow lure millions more to vote?
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We keep being told that we're not voting in the primaries.
I don't quite believe it. I'm starting to think the primaries are rigged. And this is their excuse -- they get to smugly tell us we're just not showing up to primaries in enough numbers to make a difference. Conveniently puts the blame on us, trying to make us blame ourselves.
The last 2 primaries were a disgrace. You can find a bunch of vocal progressives who didn't vote or voted 3rd part, but the bigger problem has been the establishment completely ignoring trying to get democrats to get off the couch and vote and instead try to court sycophantic far right voters with weird anti-trans rhetoric or pushing class warfare under the guise of deregulation and "small government".
Two?! This goes back to Kucinich not getting airtime when he would've been a viable opponent against Clinton!
Is all the polling rigged too, from every major pollster, including notably progressive-leaning ones?
The general electorate, including even the narrower subset of the Dem electorate, is just not as progressive as most of us. Even Mamdani barely managed a majority in NYC, which is hardly as conservative as, say, suburbs in Pennsylvania.
Horseshit.
Data for Progress released survey results late last month showing that 65% of likely US voters—including 78% of Democrats, 71% of Independents, and 49% of Republicans—either strongly or somewhat support “creating a national health insurance program, sometimes called ‘Medicare for All,’ that would cover all Americans and replace most private health insurance plans.”
Elected democrats consistently vote against massively popular propositions.
As your own source notes, this is a very recent development
10+ years at minimum, is not "very recent". A majority supported single payer healthcare before 2016.
In February [2016], a Harvard University survey discovered that a majority of 18-to-29-year-olds, did not support capitalism, and preferred socialism instead.
Are you fucking kidding me? Did you not read the fucking source linked?
Oh, wow, the demographic least likely to vote. Great. Clearly this will swing the vote.
Ironic.
If you had read the source I linked, you would see that it contradicts your point.