Young voters overwhelmingly say they would support President Biden over former President Trump in a hypothetical head-to-head match-up if the 2024 presidential election were held today, according to a poll released Wednesday.
In the Economist/YouGov poll — conducted via web-based interviews Dec. 16-18 — more than half (53 percent) of registered voters under 30 said they would support Biden, and less than a quarter (24 percent) said they would support Trump.
Another 10 percent said they would support another candidate, 4 percent said they were not sure, and 9 percent said they wouldn’t vote.
This is the unfortunate danger of populism generally. Bernie promised big things with no clear nor realistic path to delivering them, and people who are political rookies think he would have been solely capable of achieving those things through fervent advocacy or belief alone.
Sweeping populist rhetoric slams into actual reality with similar velocity whether it’s Trump’s or Sanders’ when actually put into office. Very similarly to how Trump being elected in 2016 didn’t magically erect a giant border wall, Sanders being elected would not have resulted in us getting single payer healthcare, changed every long-term military alliance we had with others, eliminated the military industrial complex, nor canceled all student loans.
These things are all from a position of “well, the politician just didn’t believe enough!” and no matter how fervent the belief, it takes a long time to affect change in the American system. Even illegally and forcefully turning America completely fascist is a multi-term project, which is why we don’t have grand fuhrer trump this moment.
That doesn’t justify anyone voting for Biden over Bernie or the other options in the 2020 primaries.
I voted Bernie in the primary, and then (as reasonable adult) voted Biden in the general.
Clinton was president 30 years ago and Biden is to the right of Clinton. Three decades of reasonable adulting has pushed us towards fascism.
Anyway, what would you say to the people who voted for Biden in the 2020 primaries? Are you willing to call them out for being selfish pieces of shit?
Umm…got any sources for these claims?
And also what’s the answer? To waste your vote on someone who has no chance in a first past the pole system? To whine on the Internet?
Ah you answered my last question: the answer is for everyone to get bigly angry on the Internet at people who didn’t want Bernie. That’ll solve it. 🤷
There were lots of other people running.
Give me one good reason why someone would vote for Biden over everybody else in the 2020 primaries.
Lots of people did vote for someone else in the 2020 primaries. This good variety of candidates that you claim existed only existed in the early rounds. Once Super Tuesday arrived, it was practically Bernie and Biden (everyone else was so far behind in vote percentages that they might as well not even been on the ballots). After Super Tuesday, the field narrowed even further to be exactly Bernie and Biden in the last remaining contests.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Democratic_Party_presidential_primaries
So, why would someone vote for Biden over Bernie in these contests you’re asking? It’s simple; they liked Biden more than Bernie.
Alright. Why did they like Biden more than Bernie?
There’s any number of reasons for that. I didn’t like Biden at all but off of the top of my head:
I could go on further, but you should understand the themes here.
As an aside, despite not being overwhelmingly delighted with Biden’s presidency, I am happy to not have the daily pants shitting, diaper-baby in the whitehouse headlines that we had during Trump’s four years…and the competency with which Biden largely handled one of the only federal programs I cared about in 2020 (i.e. the distribution of COVID vaccinations) was refreshing after 4 years of complete and utter idiocy in the executive branch.
Because those people don’t have a basic understanding of how the 3 branches of government actually work.
If I’m elected to congress I’ll work towards passing a law mandating all licensed broadcasters run 24 hour marathons of School House Rock and other “USA civics edutainment for children” shows on a set date every year.