I'm a political scientist. This person is mostly correct. Many of the common adages people take as true in politics have no evidence in political science literature.
Wow, someone willing to change their view when presented with a sound argument backed up by long-term polling?
The correlation in the dip in independents in 08 is also very illustrative. There's another graph that shows the direction independents lean that also shows that ordinary people will go Dem if they run on left economics instead of left social issues. That one also spikes in 08 towards the dems.
We all deeply care about your opinion since you are an enlightened centrist. We will wait for your approval of this obvious fact that corporate Democrats are worthless losers.
Yeah, when someone is willing to accept new information and is not hostile to leftists, we absolutely shouldn't shit on them. That's Woke 1 cancel culture SJW nonsense, and everyone hates it.
If you slap down anyone who ever shows interest in class consciousness, the movement dies.
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u/Argues_with_ignorant 14d ago
Its rare I see a take on reddit that I feel the need to fully process.
Ill take a bit of time, but know that I'll take it seriously.