Zohran and Kamala are tied for far-left at 37%. How tf? One of these people wanted to tax the rich and one of these people wanted to give tax breaks for private equity to build homes.

[–] VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago

Propoganda is a hell of a drug.

[–] friendlymessage@feddit.org 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

"Not sure" is screwing with the results. Probably most of those 36% simply don't know who he is. If you omit "not sure", Mamdani is on top

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

“Not sure” is screwing with the results.

The "Not Sure" column isn't just doing a lot of heavy lifting, it's actually a really deep insight into how fucked we are.

Look at Trump, 50% say far right, and then you might as well just write off the rest of that row as "not sure" because if you don't see his politics as anything but far-right you're equally uninformed. Basically, for conservatives on this list, anything left of their actual politics is "I have no idea what's going on."

This lines up well with the 2024 exit polling where millions and millions of people who voted for Obama or supported Bernie Sanders voted for Trump because "they weren't sure who to vote for."

We had the highest voter turnouts in recorded US history for the last several federal elections, our problem was not turnout, it has been and will continue to be people who give zero shits about politics and just vote for whoever's face they see the most, because the well has been poisoned so deeply and the earth salted so that no ideas can grow. They engineered cynicism in so much of the population by amplifying every social debate to the point of absurdity that people checked out of politics. The CIA and KGB wrote about doing this deliberately to populations to destabilize democracies over 50 years ago.