2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: If you're voting for Hillary because you think she can win the GE, you're part of the problem. [View all]RichVRichV
(885 posts)You point that 50% of the country would refuse to vote for a socialist according to the poll. But what I find much more interesting is that nearly half are already willing. This is with half a century of the red scare and demonizing the word, half the country would still be amenable to voting for a socialist. The simple fact is Bernie is the first main stream person speaking on the behalf of socialism in a very very long time. It has had no advocates and many detractors. And yet about half the country is already willing to accept it.
The simple fact of polling is that they are a snapshot of what exists at a specific point in time, not what will exist into the future (we can only estimate that based upon evidence). And people are very fickle on what they will never agree to. People were against civil rights until they were for it. People were against gay marriage until they were for it. People were against legalizing marijuana until they were for it. And in most cases a wide swinging change of opinion came in a hurry once critical mass was reached.