It's so stark I assume most people must have noticed it. It reminds me of the 2016 Republican primary, which had similar dynamics. Not blaming the candidates themselves here, just noticing a trend.
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If you discard all info about the dem primary candidates themselves and only look at their supporters, it's striking how's there's one candidate that has won well-informed, reasonable progressive types, and one candidate that has attracted self-righteous, rude, low-empathy types
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Who's which? I've had enough of all of 'em
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Where are you finding this granular supporter information? I haven't seen a poll that even purports to talk about this kind of thing.
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Or is this post one of those "social experiments" to suss out our priors about which candidate is which?
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Young people ARE justifiably angry but is it really low-empathy to think "hey, let's make sure everybody has healthcare and we do what we can to curb climate change"?
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Was it bad when Trump said he wanted more good paying jobs? It’s how you do it (or don’t) that matters. Promising with no way to deliver the goods is not what we need. So let’s discuss the « how ».
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Haven't been struck by this. They all seem to be the latter online, regardless of candidate.
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And how exactly are you accounting for the bias inherent to 'big-tent' style politics? If you're appealing to more people -> you'll have more rude people in the mix.
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You know who has a supporter base that is 100% thoughtful and polite and highly educated? Me. Doesn't mean much.
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Wait which one has low-empathy types? And how do we look at their supporters? On Twitter?
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