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[–] CannonFodder@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

Your argument is they didn't win because they didn't win. Clearly that's true, but it was also clearly a choice by the electorate and a stupid one. Could the democrats have done better - we can't know. If they had moved progressive, they may have lost centrist votes. Should they have had a white male populist candidate? It likely would have helped, but is that really a good way to go? If we accept that the dems were a better option for the majority but lost, then it comes down to education, or more specifically: media control. The repubs win because of their control of mass media. It doesn't really matter if the dems have the best candidate by far; the right wing media system will villainize them; and people like you will be programmed to say they are bad and not worth a vote.