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Biden’s polling denial: Why he doesn't believe he's behind (www.axios.com)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Hillary disregarded polls as well and kept telling everyone her win was inevitable...

And for some reason lots of people walked away from 2016 believing that the right lesson is:

Always ignore polls you don't like

Bad polls mean the candidate needs to re-evaluate their stances and try to align more with their voters, not double down and scream at voters that they have no choice but to vote for them anyways.

That shit doesn't work, but we keep running candidates with a blatant disregard for what voters want.

This is what happens when the party only cares about donations, the people running the party have no idea how to get votes, just good at getting money from corporations and billionaires

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (2 children)

This is what happens when the party only cares about donations, the people running the party have no idea how to get votes, just good at getting money from corporations and billionaires

Great observation. The lack of Campaign finance reform is leading America to fascism.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It's not just lack of reform, both parties are actively making it worse

The Biden Victory Fund is able to take up to a million annually from each person, and even tho it's a PAC, it openly coordinates with the DNC and Biden.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

I think we’ve crossed the Rubicon and there’s no going back.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

America already is fascist

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

In some ways. You’re not wrong. It’s more likely inverted totalitarianism. It lacks a dictator, or one party rule. But it will inevitably happen when the populace falls out of favor with the current standard of living.