• bedwyr@piefed.ca
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    26 days ago

    The lack of white populists in a party of a country were 65% of the population is white, shows they, somebodies, are killing populists in the cradle, killing the ones that could challenge the current leadership. The minority ones can’t so they don’t crush them, character assassinate them before they can get close to office. Is what I figure and I could say a lot about this and I do.

    As to the betting markets, when they illegalized predict it they gave the thumbs up to the for profit ones for the same thing. I didn’t hear much of it since, 2021 I think.

    I totally agree on Jeffries and the rest of the establishment and leaders and the rest.

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      26 days ago

      I’m not sure a lack of white candidates would necessarily suggest that they’re under-represented in populist movements. Anecdotal, but the volunteers I worked with in the Mamdani campaign were closer to that percentage representation in most work groups, canvassing teams, and crowds; i.e., plenty of white people who were not only voting for a populist candidate but contributing their time and skills to the campaign.

      The simplest explanation as to why POC dominate this year’s roster might be that they represent communities who are more acutely affected by these matters of policy, so they can speak a bit more directly to the challenges addressed by their campaigns. Or something along those lines. Is it possible there’s some dark trend suggested by the demographics of the candidates not matching the national distribution? Sure. But I think I’d need more or better evidence before entertaining that hypothesis.