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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Hillary's Polls - Shocking Proof or History Repeating Itself? [View all]raouldukelives
(5,178 posts)19. We have two forms of democracy as Americans.
One is by action, one is by vote. Until individuals feel compelled to start acting the way they say they would like others too, nobody ever will. One has to practice what one preaches.
Denial is strong these days. People spend their lives devoted to achieving corporate success and then claim to personally care about the attacks against democracy they themselves fund. They speak about expanding safety nets, climate change, education, wars, police aggression, health care and lives in flowery verbiage of concern and then profit from the continued denial and outright ignorance of the causes.
We need people for the people.
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The polls indicate he is tied or actually trailing HRC among young people.
DemocratSinceBirth
Nov 2015
#45
Maybe the pollsters don't hear from the young Bernies fans is because they only own cell phones. eom
Fawke Em
Nov 2015
#47
My point is that Bernie is unelectable. Because he's a self-described socialist.
DanTex
Nov 2015
#52
2016 is not 2008, and losing by 20+ points is not a good precursor for winning
Godhumor
Nov 2015
#10
It appears that, as always, we do not learn from the past or even the present.
kelliekat44
Nov 2015
#20
It wasn't yet a two man race at this point in 2008, Edwards had considerable support.
tritsofme
Nov 2015
#42