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Your problem isn't with stats, polls are still valuable.
Your problem is political think tanks that pay for biased polling that reflects what they want instead of reality. And billionaire owned media presenting those biases stats with a straight face and hoping no one notices.
Imagine your back in college and the water bottle you just chugged had vodka in it.
That's a bad bottle, but the take away should be "verify it's water first" and not "never try to drink water again".
Meaning you shouldn't disregard all polls, it's just responsible to take a real.looknamd not just believe headlines or even articles.
Even if you'll never vote D in a general, there is literally no downside for voting for the left most candidate in the next Dem primary. Hell, you could even try voting for the left most candidate in the Republican primary instead, I don't think that would be as effective though.
After all, it's the first step in Marxism-Lenism:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marxism%E2%80%93Leninism
Personally I want to exit ramp before all the Stalin stuff, but you can't argue that it didn't work for him.
Yeah, it's the whole "controlled by the state" thing I'll never trust about marxism-leninism. You dont get an informed and organized population by subverting them and taking away their mobility.
Authoritarianism doesn't lead to freedom.
Yeah, Lenin seized power by having all the soviets assassinated by bolsheviks after he lost an election to them. Then the USSR descended into widespread famine, surveillance, and state-sponsored massacres.
It's wild how many people still swear by marxist-leninism, as if "just try it one more time, this time it'll work, I swear!" Or even wilder "actually, widespread famine, surveillance, and monopolized violence in the USSR was good!"
And then they just smugly tell you to "read theory" because they assume you haven't already, because they can't imagine anyone would actually read it and think critically about it, since they sure as hell didn't...
The problem with economics as a science is that testing some theories can be very expensive.
I've always viewed economics as a pseudo-science.
There might be some ways to apply the scientific method to economic systems, but even if so it would be a soft science at best.
But that's not even what's happening in conventional economic theory, and they try to treat it like a hard science.