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So this is a viewer response poll which, regardless of who sets it up, always show heavy towards the bias of the"polster". The daily mail is to the right of Fox so one would expect that the pool would show favorably for Trump. That it could only muster 53% approval is hilariously bad.
Meh, everyone I know in the real world seems to like him. Lemmy isn’t a great snapshot of the real world. Which is why you all were so shocked and shook that Trump won. Sometimes ya just gotta look around.
Your real world must be pretty small.
Small enough to win the presidency I guess. How’d your side do in the election?
Just a lack of critical-thinking and maturity.
All I’ll say is that disinformation and propaganda will not change reality.
No matter how many times you say things are getting cheaper, they will become more expensive. No matter how many times you say you’re rich, you’ll be poor. No matter how many times you say tariffs work, they won’t. No matter how many times you say vaccines don’t work, your community will continue to die. I can keep going.
People can lie to themselves and say their quality-of-life is improving but health, life expectancy, and purchasing power will still continue to get worse - no matter. If 53% of daily mail users accept that, then fine. If 49.8% of the voting bloc accept that, then fine. But life will get worse.
Then I guess Democrats better work on getting better candidates and changing their strategy so they can win and stop all this horrible stuff happening, right? Are the Democrats working on that right now?
I would hope so. I am not a Dem, so I wouldn’t know.
It seems to me that they have learned nothing from their failures, however. Some Dems are trying to enact change but do not understand the level of investment and sacrifice needed to turn this thing around. They just aren’t winners.
That being said, the world has more nuance than “dems better strategy = win”. There are active disinformation campaigns from foreign nations and internal bad-actors. There is also active voter suppression and the richest people on the planet flooding the government with lobbying money. To think this is a straightforward calculation, is to be incredibly naive.
Republicans are also actively committing said “horrible stuff” (which includes breaking the law) and are not being sent to prison. The general population is also not using their 2A very well either - if they were, a lot of Republican seats would be vacant.
But as I said prior, lying to yourself about your current reality will not help the situation - nor make your life better. The country is objectively worse now than it has been in 100 years. You can cope and rationalize all you want, but your life will get worse and you will die earlier. You are not going to beat reality.
There are active disinformation campaigns from foreign nations and internal bad-actors.
Agreed. In every country and in every political party.
But as I said prior, lying to yourself about your current reality will not help the situation
Which is why I don’t lie to myself.
The country is objectively worse now than it has been in 100 years
Big disagree. How old are you? Because for you to say that, you haven’t lived here for over the last 50 years.
Which is kind of the problem, right? Of ~244.5M eligible voters, only ~59% or 156.3M actually cast a ballot. And of that, only ~77.3M voted for Trump. The man won the presidency with less than 32% of eligible voters. FPTP elections and the electoral college are leading us to worse and worse candidates.
Hmmm, guess ya all should have made a better impression on those that didn’t vote then. Because the majority of those who did vote, voted for Trump.
Using your numbers, your candidate and party was so bad, that they let someone who only had 32% of eligible voters, win the freakin’ presidency! LMAO
Both candidates earned around the same number of votes, and both were pitiful. So to that extent, I agree? But the malfeasance wouldn’t have been so rampant and on display with any candidate other than Trump.
Presuming you’re actually an American citizen, we’ve both lost because of this setup. While the current government may be making some strides on things conservative constituents actually care about, I don’t think most of what’s happening right now is helping anyone but those in power. Being glib may make you feel better that you’re on the “winning team”, but it’s the people who voted for him who are statistically more likely to suffer the impacts of this disastrous administration.
Nebraska will be bankrupt, and soon so too will all of the rural and agricultural states in the country’s interior. I’m sorry that they’ve all been conned into believing that this group of despots will help them.
But the malfeasance wouldn’t have been so rampant and on display with any candidate other than Trump.
And yet the democratic party was so weak, they couldn’t win. Trump has always been like this. So it’s not a surprise. But the Dem party has been shitting the bed lately. And if they don’t change their attitudes, they’ll lose next election too.
Presuming you’re actually an American citizen, we’ve both lost because of this setup
I am. But I haven’t lost. The democratic party (and Lemmy) has become so out of touch with the average american, that they needed their ass handed to them. Democrats and Lemmy are getting what they deserve for making fun of republicans, ignoring working class concerns, making fun of rural americans and middle america, not taking them seriously.
And it’s all gonna happen again if the attitude doesn’t change. I’m personally happy to see you all burn down your own shit because you were too egotistical to listen to differing opinions.
I personally have been bullied on Lemmy just because I post news articles about conservatives–many articles from AP News even. I don’t call people names, I don’t advocate violence, I abhor nazis and fascists. Yet Lemmy has done all of those things to me. I was banned from one instance on my name alone before I even posted anything there.
Lemmy had guaranteed that I will never ever vote democrat ever again. I have seen more hate and spite on here than I have seen any republicans do.
So Lemmy and Democrats are getting what they deserve and I’m sitting back laughing at it. And it’s gonna happen again in 4 years unless ya’ll change your attitudes.
How far did your friends go in school? Do you know anyone with an advanced degree?
Most of my friends have degrees, yes. They are adults. lol
The only relevant point from the article:
It should be noted that the poll was taken before the Stock Market dropped on Thursday and Friday.
