Posted: Mar 17, 2017 4:12 pm
purplerat wrote:Willie71 wrote:Rumraket wrote:How many people vote in all the primaries (in total) compared to how many vote in the general election? I'm asking because I don't know. I suspect more people vote in the general election than in the primaries.
Don't waste your time. It takes a high level of motivated ignorance to keep making that same lame point after it's been explained a hundred times.Its intellectually dishonest to make that argument, or there are serious intellectual deficits.
That's not to mention the shift in polling numbers since the election. What argument to the Clinton supporters have left?
It's hardly a lame point. What the fuck all does it matter how popular a politician is if they can't manifest that popularity into making a tangible difference? Simple look at what we ended up with. Trump is about as unpopular as a politician can be yet he'll end up affecting more change in his first year of being a politician than Sanders has done in his many decades as a career politician. Because popularity means fuck all.
You don't think that if Sanders was 5 years younger, and ran in 2020, that he would win in a landslide? Now that he!s got the name recognition? It took a lot of suppression and collusion to keep him from winning last year. No way would people forget about that hext time.
If there is a movement to get people into the government who are not tied to the big businesses, change is possible. The democrats are less popular than trump right now. Screwing over Sanders, and more recently Ellison has tanked their popularity along with the message of "we are still on the right track, nothing to see here." People know there are populists out there now, and that will be the theme of 2020. You can argue otherwise, and be wrong again, like you were last year.