• Eat_Your_Paisley@lemmy.world
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    Michigan Dems will vote blue no matter who, we had a primary we know outlr canidates and now we unite going forward.

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              Where’s your source that progressives stayed home more than centrists? You demand sources from others but provide none of your own.

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                I didn’t quote anything specific other then my feels and obervations, if you tell me a source supports an alternate/correct assessment Im all ears/eyes.

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                  No. You’re telling people their anecdotes aren’t good enough, but you’re here arguing your gut feelings are enough. The problem is you’re a hypocrite demanding a higher level of proof than you yourself are willing to provide.

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                    I’m arguing if I’m incorrect then prove it, I’ve stipulated that I’m not arguing facts if you have facts that prove me wrong I’m good with that

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              The anointed one gleefully embracing the most lethal neo-conservative partnership in the world, that Harris?

              You speak of facts, but conveniently leave out the fact that Trump walloped her so badly he won by a wider margin than there were self-identified protest vote progressives to begin with. It literally made no difference how they voted.

              I hope she runs again in ‘28 and has to face an actual primary vote where she will once again receive single digit support. Who knows, maybe if she moves even further right she can pick up some more maga voters and break into the double digits lmao.

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                  That question doesn’t make sense. You might as well be asking why Democrats didn’t rally behind Nikki Haley. Still, my answer remains the same:

                  It’s wrong to blame the voters for a garbage candidate. Please stop doing that, and demand better of our “representatives” instead.

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                    It’s wrong to blame the voters for a garbage candidate.

                    that logic excuses voters for trump and i’m not ready to do that.

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                    23 hours ago

                    Vote blue no matter who, I would have voted Mallory, Haley, or Abdul. Now that things are decided I’ll vote Abdul like.most if not all Michigan dems.

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              https://www.politico.com/story/2017/09/17/bernie-sanders-hillary-clinton-242819

              Sanders appeared to be referring to a YouGov survey that found that 24 percent of those who voted for Clinton during the 2008 primary backed McCain over Democratic nominee Obama in the general election.

              https://www.wbur.org/npr/545812242/1-in-10-sanders-primary-voters-ended-up-supporting-trump-survey-finds

              Fully 12 percent of people who voted for Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., in the 2016 Democratic presidential primaries voted for President Trump in the general election. That is according to the data from the Cooperative Congressional Election Study

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                So I’m tracking HRC said Bernie (the progressive) didn’t bring his supporters around in '16 like she did for Obama in '08.

                The second link won’t load.

                It doesn’t surprise me they didn’t fall in line I didn’t at that time either.

                I’m being argumentative here for a couple reasons, I just don’t think MI dems can push him over the line since he’s not doing all that well in the places he needs to do well like metro Detroit, so he needs places like Kalamazoo and Grand Rapids. Both of those cities will go his way but the counties those cities reside in might not which is a problem.

                Second I enjoy trolling onlime progressives for their holier than thou because they seem to think that the party needs to adopt all of their views even if a generic democrat vote with the party a vast majority of the time.

                We can argue that the votes they don’t follow party line are the important votes, my argument is they did nothing to try to earn that vote just expected it to happen.

                In the end the party is endorsing his run so it seems there’s not too much to complain about.

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                  She didn’t bring her supporters around for '08. Remember PUMA’s? Pepperidge farms remembers.

                  A higher percentage of Bernie voters voted for Clinton in 2016 than Clinton voters voted for Obama in 2008.

                  You’re literally just making shit up here completely to justify your position.

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                  I enjoy trolling onlime progressives

                  first off, on lime?

                  second, fuck right off. you’re nothing but disingenuous snark and attacking the very people who overwhelmingly come out every time. the problem is NOT progressives.

                  I enjoy mocking on lime chuds like you.

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              I voted for her, every progressive I know did too. Maybe you’re thinking of the protest votes against genocide? I’m not sure if they were progressive.

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                The protests (at least online) all came from progressives so I can only assume that the split democatic vote cost Kamala.

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                  nope. progressives aren’t radical leftists. the radical leftists who thought trump would be better for palestine did that.

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                  I didn’t know they were progressive I thought they were liberal for some reason. Thanks for clearing it up. For what it’s worth, people tried to talk them out of it, tried hard.

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      so the DSA managed to get one out of pure luck because McMorrow didn’t pull out quick enough

      this guy seems ok though, hope he doesn’t fuck it up and go full commie

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        so the DSA managed to get one out of pure luck

        Al-Sayed isn’t a DSA member, nor is he endorsed by DSA

        hope he doesn’t fuck it up and go full commie

        I hope he goes full Tankie. I want him to make Stalin look like an Anarchist and personally drag every healthcare CEO to the Ms. Rachel Zohran Mamdani Memorial Gulag, outside of Dearborn, where they will be summarily 9/11’d to death