You could argue that media was against him, but the truth is that people in america just aren't that progressive. I mean hell, look at how terrible the dem turnout was this year compared to last election.

[–] eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Refuses to cover his campaign ads
Refuses to cover his victories
Intentionally leaving him off of nationwide polls when data allow him to be counted (CNN infamous called Sanders "Other Candidate" instead of showing him, but counted Andrew Yang)
Slander about him being sexist when he encouraged women to run for office and only started going in 2016 when he asked Warren to run and she declined.
Mass media campaign about calling the Jewish senator antisemitic for not being "pro killing children"

So when the media is against you, people see it as a bad candidate, and don't vote. Even when he was never a monster, but Trump got more air time saying "Mexicans bring rape".

[–] pjwestin@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] GiveMemes@jlai.lu -1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] pjwestin@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

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.

[–] eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] pjwestin@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 weeks ago

Yep. Maybe whenever we're allowed elections again we'll have a candidate with polices that people like. Thanks Harris!

[–] GiveMemes@jlai.lu -1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

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.

Coming back to add that these are polls of democrats for the most part, which only make up 30% of the voting population.

https://news.gallup.com/poll/15370/party-affiliation.aspx

Sometimes, the people that do this shit for a living (not me, but the so called popularity experts you have such disdain for) know more about this than non-experts, just as physicists tend to know more about physics than a rando off the street.

[–] pjwestin@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks 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.

Edit: Oh, just saw the shit you added! You know, when a physicist finds out that their experiment contradicts their hypothesis, they have to admit their theory is wrong! They don't just run the exact same experiment again in 8 years and expect a different outcome. That's why physics is a real science and political science isn't!