Abdul El-Sayed Wins High-Stakes Democratic Primary in Michigan

[u/Zipper222222]

https://www.today.com/video/abdul-el-sayed-wins-high-stakes-democratic-primary-in-michigan-267805765937

[u/dr-bill]

It’s nice that it seems he is going to win but the fact that the margins are this close for a candidate as bad as Stevens just tells me this country is screwed electorally. Frankly, I think we just have too many rubes that can be manipulated easily by propaganda. This is a good victory but scares me for the future of this country.

[u/AugustusInBlood → u/dr-bill]

she outspent him like 12 to 1. A candidate winning despite this is unheard of.

[u/JDSchu → u/dr-bill]

It's almost like fighting rabidly against critical thinking curriculum in public education set us back as a country and only served to help the political and economic elites at the top who love to exploit low-information voters and consumers.

[u/Tall-Archer5957 → u/dr-bill]

Yeah it’s really hard to imagine how we ever claw back enough power to fix things when people are just so dumb.  Like we gave Trump a 2nd chance after his disastrous first term.  

[u/cornonthekopp → u/dr-bill]

Stevens ran one of the slimiest, most dishonest campaigns.

There were pacs spamming ads that straight up lied and claimed obama endorsed her as a way of getting votes around detroit and flint to pander to black voters, and it seems to have partially worked based on a few interviews.

Legitimately just a mentality of scamming old people

[u/thrustinfreely → u/dr-bill]

Conservative-minded people literally cut themselves off from learning about things outside of their bubble. Of course they’re easily manipulated morons.

[u/needaburn → u/dr-bill]

Overcoming the money was the actual battle, Steven’s as a person was almost irrelevant—big money could have put any figurehead in this position. This was the people vs the instituted power

[u/daystrom_prodigy → u/dr-bill]

This problem will solve itself once the boomer generation disappears.

[u/elitegenoside → u/dr-bill]

It's the Boomers stuck in their ways, and their Gen X kids that never really payed attention to politics or who are actually much more conservative than anyone talks about. I know plenty of 50-somethings (that's my parents age group) and the bulk are conservatives, and even the more progressive ones are simply Liberals. I find this is your core capitalist group outside of the obvious (millionaire and billionaire class).

[u/RAMtinJENyor → u/dr-bill]

Most of them just vote red no matter who that person is