Bernie's loss was more about the complicated layers of anti-democratic gatekeeping around the Democratic primary and other types of election design flaws in the US than actual approval rating. If there was a ranked choice voting system with Trump, Hillary, Sanders in 2016, he easily would have won as he was the least mutually divisive candidate.
it's the disconnect between actual public opinion, and what the media presents it as
There's a lag so there's a couple of days where people true feeling poke through before they can lock it down and distract
case in point look at front page of reddit for example, yesterday 80% of posts are about The Hero, today none and instead were supposed to care that trump said it's hard to make the prices of good come down
the older i get the less i understand about anything. in this country bernie is too radical to be pres but everyone loves the ceo murderer
Bernie was too radical for the party to allow to be president, not too radical to get the popular support needed
Bernie's loss was more about the complicated layers of anti-democratic gatekeeping around the Democratic primary and other types of election design flaws in the US than actual approval rating. If there was a ranked choice voting system with Trump, Hillary, Sanders in 2016, he easily would have won as he was the least mutually divisive candidate.
it's the disconnect between actual public opinion, and what the media presents it as
There's a lag so there's a couple of days where people true feeling poke through before they can lock it down and distract
case in point look at front page of reddit for example, yesterday 80% of posts are about The Hero, today none and instead were supposed to care that trump said it's hard to make the prices of good come down