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American progressives don't understand their own country (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) by Aweigh@lemmy.world to c/goodoffmychest@lemmy.world

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I like Zohran Mamdani. I like Alexandria Ocasio Cortez.

But if you think they have any chance to win a presidential election against Eric Trump or JD Vance, you are kidding yourself.

People living in Nevada, Texas, Michigan or Wisconsin are never going to vote for a muslim socialist or a latina.

Many americans get their news from Fox News or X.

They believe California/New York/Boston/Seattle/Chicago are disgusting hellholes full of crime, murder and pink-haired weirdos who hate America.

The next candidate should be :

- Male

- White

- Not from the West Coast or East Coast

- Military veteran

Any other candidate will be annihilated before the presidential campaign even starts.

I say this as as a foreigner

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[–] disregardable@lemmy.zip 4 points 10 hours ago

It's not that we don't know how racist and horrible our countrymen are. It's that, being surrounded by idiots isn't an excuse for poor policy. We should have good policy regardless of the fact that we're surrounded by idiots, and we should tell those idiots why good policy is good.